Financing South Africa's National Health System through National Insurance:
Possibilities and challenges - Colloquium Proceedings
Claire Botha and Michael Hendricks for the HSRC
Although much progress has been made towards the creation of a national South African health system which makes ‘access to health for all' a reality, much remains to be done. As a means to facilitate debate, the Policy Analysis Unit of the HSRC hosted a colloquium on ‘Health within a comprehensive system of social security'. The main purpose was to initiate policy dialogue and critical discussion on how health services are accessed, provided and funded - and to formulate ideas, views and recommendations that could be presented to those involved in health policy development. This publication contains the keynote addresses and a summary of deliberations emerging from the colloquium. 2008 / 64pp / 978-0-7969-2235-9 / R 80.00 / Soft cover Get it here
In Search of ‘Best Practice’ in South African Desegregated Schools
Mokubung Nkomo & Saloshna Vandeyar, imag
One of the daunting challenges facing South Africa in the contemporary period is that of achieving social cohesion. This monograph records what a few schools have managed to achieve and examines their potential to grow into models of best practice in managing diversity. A small survey of stakeholders' perceptions about what constitutes ‘best practice' in a desegregated school environment, supported by classroom observation, interviews and focus groups, form the basis of this analysis of emergent patterns in the practices which foster healthy identities in our learners, both as individuals and as members of South African society. 2008 / 168pp / 978-0-7969-2224-3 / R 85.00 / Soft cover Get it here
Interventions for orphans and vulnerable children at four project sites in South Africa
Geoffrey Setswe & Donald Skinner
This report describes interventions for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) at four sites in South Africa - the Rustenburg and Orkney areas in the North West province, and the Kopanong and Matjhabeng municipalities in the Free State. The report highlights the knowledge, attitudes, practices and prevention, care and support issues concerning HIV/AIDS among the people located in these four areas. In 2002, the HSRC was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a fiveyear intervention project focusing on OVC in southern Africa. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practice so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole. 2008 / 96pp / 978-07969-2218-2 / R 95.00 / Soft cover Get it here
Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa
Knut-Inge Klepp, Alan J. Flisher & Sylvia F. Kaaya
In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Articulating new perspectives and strategies to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health, the authors of this volume comprise a network of researchers working in east and southern Africa. They make a unique attempt to bring together the social and biomedical sciences and to disseminate concrete empirical evidence from existing programmes, carefully analysing what works and what doesn't at the local level. 2008 / 344pp / 978-07969-2210-6 / R 190.00 / Soft cover Co-published with Nordic Africa Institute - ISBN 978-91-7106-599-5 Get it here
Rapid appraisal of social inclusion policies in selected sub-Saharan African countries
Laetitia Rispel, Cesar da Sousa & Boitumelo Molomo
This monograph explores the notion of social exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa and summarises available baseline indicators of the scale of inequality in five selected countries: Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Ethiopia and Nigeria. The study was done as part of the Social Exclusion Knowledge Network (SEKN), set up under the auspices of the WHO's Commission on Social Determinants of Health. SEKN's scope is to identify and examine the relational processes excluding particular groups of people from engaging fully in community and social life. 2008 / 64pp / 978-07969-2225-0 / R 90.00 / Soft cover Get it here
The RPL Conundrum:
Recognition of prior learning in a teacher upgrading programme
Mignonne Brier
The practice of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in the education of adults seeks to affirm and accredit the knowledge and skills which they have already attained in the course of their working lives. This monograph explores the implementation of RPL in a programme designed to upgrade tens of thousands of under-qualified teachers and finds a baffling dilemma: how does one value prior learning which one believes to be misguided, outdated, or inappropriate? Case studies of the implementation of RPL in the National Professional Diploma in Education (NPDE) at three universities present interesting approaches to the conundrum and reveal the importance of phronesis, or practical wisdom, in considerations of RPL. 2008 / 184pp / 978-0-7969-2220-5 / R 150.00 / Soft cover Get it here
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