Directorate Health Economics

Director: Vacant

The Directorate is represented on NHIS/SA Committee.

The role and link to NHIS/SA can be summarised by the following:

• The Directorate: Health Financing and Economics will serve as a contact point for the supply of financial data to NHIS/SA (where such data is available);
• The Directorate: Health Financing and Economics will advise NHIS/SA on the collection of both financial and non-financial data that can be used effectively in monitoring, evaluation and policy development.

Relevant Documents:

• Annual Single Exit Price Increase 2008
• Presentations of the Private Healthcare Indaba - 21 September 2007
• Report on Inter-Provincial Inequity - November 2005
• Estimating the Cost of District Hospital Services - October 2002
  Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (PDF)
• Report of the “Public-Private Interactions” Lekgotla (PDF) 11-12 July 2002
  - Keynote Address Delivered by Dr. Ayanda Ntsaluba to the opening of the National PPI Lekgotla
• HIV/AIDS Funding for the Health Sector in Budget 2002: Comparison of funds allocated and funds requested in the Department of Health’s "Enhanced Response" Budget Submission - 26 March 2002
• An Enhanced Response to HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in the Public Health Sector – Key Components and Funding Requirements, 2002/03-2004/05 - September 2001
• Consolidated National Health Accounts Report of 2000
• National Health Accounts: Public Sector Report - November 2000
• Budget Planning Assistance for North West Province - 23 September 1999 (PDF)

• Appendix I, TB Control Programme Cost Model: Data, Assumptions and Model (PDF)
• Appendix II, STD Model and Data (PDF)

• Research Findings and Policy Implications of the Review of Highly Specialised Services in the Public Hospital Sector - 26 June 2001

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