Community Health Systems in the Rural American South

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole E. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
American South ◽  
Community Health Systems

scholarly journals COVID-19: Africa needs unprecedented attention to strengthen community health systems

The Lancet ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 396 (10245) ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy ◽  
Bernice Dahn ◽  
Rachel Saykpah ◽  
Mallika Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Community Health Systems

Board Oversight of Patient Care Quality in Community Health Systems

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence D. Prybil ◽  
Richard Peterson ◽  
Paul Brezinski ◽  
Gideon Zamba ◽  
William Roach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Community Health Systems ◽  
Patient Care Quality

scholarly journals What Is COVID-19 Teaching Us About Community Health Systems? A Reflection From a Rapid Community-Led Mutual Aid Response in Cape Town, South Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manya van Ryneveld ◽  
Eleanor Whyle ◽  
Leanne Brady
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Community Response ◽  
The State ◽  
System Response ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Community Health Systems

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the wide gaps in South Africa’s formal social safety net, with the country’s high levels of inequality, unemployment and poor public infrastructure combining to produce devastating consequences for a vast majority in the country living through lockdown. In Cape Town, a movement of self-organising, neighbourhood-level community action networks (CANs) has contributed significantly to the community-based response to COVID-19 and the ensuing epidemiological and social challenges it has wrought. This article describes and explains the organising principles that inform this community response, with the view to reflect on the possibilities and limits of such movements as they interface with the state and its top-down ways of working, often producing contradictions and complexities. This presents an opportunity for recognising and understanding the power of informal networks and collective action in community health systems in times of unprecedented crisis, and brings into focus the importance of finding ways to engage with the state and its formal health system response that do not jeopardise this potential.

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