Gender and the Impact of COVID-19 on Demand for and Access to Healthcare: Intersectional Analysis of Before-and-After Data from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Safa Abdalla ◽  
Elizabeth G. Katz ◽  
Angela Hartley ◽  
Gary L. Darmstadt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare service access for the victims of sexual assault

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramprakash Kaswa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Sexual Assault Survivors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Degrees Of Severity ◽  
Assault Survivors

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic disrupted the provision or exacerbated the existing gap of access to essential healthcare services. An unanticipated effect on access to healthcare services emerged with the introduction of COVID-19 lockdown regulations. Violence against women is prevalent with varying degrees of severity in all spheres of society.Methods: This study aims to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the access to healthcare services for the victims of sexual assault in the Mthatha region of South Africa. This is a records review of victims of sexual assault survivors who visited and were treated at the Sinawe TCC at Mthatha Regional Hospital. The data on sexual assault cases at Sinawe TCC were compared with a time-matched control group from 2014 to 2020.Results: There were 5747 sexual assault cases reported at Sinawe TCC between 01 January 2014 and 31 December 2020. There was a major drop in reported cases at Sinawe TCC during the 2020 year, with only about half (451) of the annual average cases being reported.Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on access to healthcare services for the victims of sexual assault survivors in the Mthatha region of South Africa.

scholarly journals Economic News Releases and Financial Markets in South Africa

Economies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Gkillas ◽  
Dimitrios Vortelinos ◽  
Christos Floros ◽  
Athanasios Tsagkanos
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Foreign Exchange Markets ◽  
Economic News ◽  
News Releases ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Exchange Markets ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

We examine the impact of economic news releases on returns, volatility and jumps of the stock and foreign exchange markets of South Africa. We also assess the impact of macroeconomic determinants. The dataset range is fifteen years covering the period from January, 2000 to December, 2014. Results are robust to different sub-periods before and after the global financial crisis of 2008. Volatility is estimated with the use of the median realized variance estimator. Jumps are also detected. The impact of the announcements is assessed building using regression techniques. Returns, volatility and jumps of both stock and foreign exchange markets are significantly explained nationally by macroeconomic fundamentals and economic news releases.

Before and after, the impact of available on-demand treatment for HAE

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra C. Christiansen ◽  
Anette Bygum ◽  
Aleena Banerji ◽  
Paula Busse ◽  
Henry Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
On Demand ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals COVID-19 in South Africa: outbreak despite interventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malte Schröder ◽  
Andreas Bossert ◽  
Moritz Kersting ◽  
Sebastian Aeffner ◽  
Justin Coetzee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Intervention Measures ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe future dynamics of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in African countries is largely unclear. Simultaneously, required strengths of intervention measures are strongly debated because containing COVID-19 in favor of the weak health care system largely conflicts with socio-economic hardships. Here we analyze the impact of interventions on outbreak dynamics for South Africa, exhibiting the largest case numbers across sub-saharan Africa, before and after their national lockdown. Past data indicate strongly reduced but still supracritical growth after lockdown. Moreover, large-scale agent-based simulations given different future scenarios for the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality with 1.14 million inhabitants, based on detailed activity and mobility survey data of about 10% of the population, similarly suggest that current containment may be insufficient to not overload local intensive care capacity. Yet, enduring, slightly stronger or more specific interventions, combined with sufficient compliance, may constitute a viable option for interventions for South Africa.

scholarly journals Assessing the impact of a waiting time survey on reducing waiting times in urban primary care clinics in Cape Town, South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Daniels ◽  
Virginia Zweigenthal ◽  
Gavin Reagon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Waiting Time ◽  
Waiting Times ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Specific Factor ◽  
Primary Care Clinics ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Stratified Sample ◽  
The Impact

A waiting time survey (WTS) conducted in several clinics in Cape Town, South Africa provided recommendations on how to shorten waiting times (WT). A follow-up study was conducted to assess whether WT had reduced. Using a stratified sample of 22 clinics, a before and after study design assessed changes in WT. The WT was measured and perceptions of clinic managers were elicited, about the previous survey’s recommendations. The overall median WT decreased by 21 minutes (95%CI: 11.77- 30.23), a 28% decrease from the previous WTS. Although no specific factor was associated with decreases in WT, implementation of recommendations to reduce WT was 2.67 times (95%CI: 1.33-5.40) more likely amongst those who received written recommendations and 2.3 times (95%CI: 1.28- 4.19) more likely amongst managers with 5 or more years’ experience. The decrease in WT found demonstrates the utility of a WTS in busy urban clinics in developing country contexts. Experienced facility managers who timeously receive customised reports of their clinic’s performance are more likely to implement changes that positively impact on reducing WT.

Strategic Role of Zakat in Multidimensional Quality of Life in Sijunjung, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Herlin Hamimi ◽  
Abdul Ghafar Ismail ◽  
Muhammad Hasbi Zaenal
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Absolute Poverty ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Status ◽  
Being There ◽  
The Impact

Zakat is one of the five pillars of Islam which has a function of faith, social and economic functions. Muslims who can pay zakat are required to give at least 2.5 per cent of their wealth. The problem of poverty prevalent in disadvantaged regions because of the difficulty of access to information and communication led to a gap that is so high in wealth and resources. The instrument of zakat provides a paradigm in the achievement of equitable wealth distribution and healthy circulation. Zakat potentially offers a better life and improves the quality of human being. There is a human quality improvement not only in economic terms but also in spiritual terms such as improving religiousity. This study aims to examine the role of zakat to alleviate humanitarian issues in disadvantaged regions such as Sijunjung, one of zakat beneficiaries and impoverished areas in Indonesia. The researcher attempted a Cibest method to capture the impact of zakat beneficiaries before and after becoming a member of Zakat Community Development (ZCD) Program in material and spiritual value. The overall analysis shows that zakat has a positive impact on disadvantaged regions development and enhance the quality of life of the community. There is an improvement in the average of mustahik household incomes after becoming a member of ZCD Program. Cibest model demonstrates that material, spiritual, and absolute poverty index decreased by 10, 5, and 6 per cent. Meanwhile, the welfare index is increased by 21 per cent. These findings have significant implications for developing the quality of life in disadvantaged regions in Sijunjung. Therefore, zakat is one of the instruments to change the status of disadvantaged areas to be equivalent to other areas.

Some Reflections on Reparation in Post-Apartheid South Africa, using a Couple Therapy Intervention as a Microcosm of South African Society

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Hill ◽  
Sylvia Poss
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Depressive Position ◽  
Central Hypothesis ◽  
Transference And Countertransference ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Therapy Intervention

The paper addresses the question of reparation in post-apartheid South Africa. The central hypothesis of the paper is that in South Africa current traumas or losses, such as the 2008 xenophobic attacks, may activate a ‘shared unconscious phantasy’ of irreparable damage inflicted by apartheid on the collective psyche of the South African nation which could block constructive engagement and healing. A brief couple therapy intervention by a white therapist with a black couple is used as a ‘microcosm’ to explore this question. The impact of an extreme current loss, when earlier losses have been sustained, is explored. Additionally, the impact of racial difference on the transference and countertransference between the therapist and the couple is explored to illustrate factors complicating the productive grieving and working through of the depressive position towards reparation.

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