Health

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 [...]

Dave Strugnell | October 2020 In this bizarre year of 2020, and after several months spent trying to understand and model the coronavirus pandemic and its health and mortality impacts, it somehow seemed appropriate to [...]

Dr Anja Smith | October 2020 Covid-19 and its secondary impacts on the health system became very real to me one day in March, shortly after the identification of Patient Zero in South Africa, when a [...]

Shivani Ranchod | September 2020 Shivani Rancod, CEO of Percept, discussed how we can leverage digital solutions to reimage healthcare delivery beyond Covid-19 and how we can prevent deaths resulting from Covid-induced economic impacts in [...]

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 [...]