title: Economics of health in South Africa: past, present and future.
abstract: Some of the background to the present structure of medicine in South Africa, an outline of some economic aspects of our current (inadequate) health care service and tentative suggestions regarding the directions in which our health services should be moving to facilitate the legitimization (political) and accumulation (economic) processes required to meet the needs and demands of all the people of an internationally recognized, just and free South Africa are presented.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Benatar
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control / Q000639:trends; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000191:economics*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000191:economics*; D013019:South Africa