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Compounding the complexity: The impact of comorbidities on the management of non-communicable diseases Percept | January 2022 This brief focuses on the comorbidity and multimorbidity of chronic conditions. For our purposes, wedefine comorbidity as an [...]

Reassessing the risk: The impact of noncommunicable diseases on life insurance Percept | January 2022 In this brief, we explore how the increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impactsthe South African long-term insurance market. This [...]

Levers of change: The alternative approach Percept | January 2022 This series of briefs about non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has provided a rich and layered pictureof the multifaceted nature of the problem of NCDs in South [...]

Hidden in plain sight: Projecting the burden of NCDs Percept | January 2022 The high and increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has led to the recognitionof NCDs as a global public health emergency.1 In [...]

Percept | July 2021 Percept has been working with the Inclusive Society Institute on engaging health-sector stakeholders in deep discourse on South Africa's path to Universal Health Coverage. This report is an attempt to ensure [...]

Emma Finestone and Jodi Wishnia | September 2021 Download In this brief…Percept was contracted by the Cancer Alliance to research the burden of disease for cancer in South Africa and this report investigates the expected [...]

Percept | November 2020 Percept has been working with the Inclusive Society Institute on engaging health-sector stakeholders in deep discourse on South Africa's path to Universal Health Coverage. This report lays out alternative pathways for [...]

Percept | August 2020 Percept has been working with the Inclusive Society Institute on engaging health-sector stakeholders in deep discourse on South Africa's path to Universal Health Coverage. This report lays out the critical policy [...]

Percept | July 2020 Percept has been working with the Inclusive Society Institute on engaging health-sector stakeholders in deep discourse on South Africa's path to Universal Health Coverage. This report reflects learnings that can be drawn from [...]

Shivani Ranchod, Anja Smith and Jodi Wishnia| December 2019 Percept-Strategic-Purchasing-HASA-Policy-Brief-Series-Brief-7-201911Download In this brief… The prior briefs articulate the functions of the purchaser, and the requirements to realise a purchaser-provider split in South Africa. In this [...]

Jodi Wishnia, Shivani Ranchod and Anja Smith| December 2019 Percept-Strategic-Purchasing-HASA-Policy-Brief-Series-Brief-6-201911Download In this brief… We discuss alternative ways to reimburse healthcare providers for services rendered. This is timely, given the introduction of a single purchaser in [...]

Anja Smith, Jodi Wishnia and Shivani Ranchod | December 2019 Percept-Strategic-Purchasing-HASA-Policy-Brief-Series-Brief-5-201911Download In this brief… The 2019 revised NHI Bill uses the term accreditation to refer to the Fund’s own process of determining the eligibility of [...]