Poverty, health and policy: a historical look at the South African experience.
The resurgence of interest in links between health and development raises interesting questions about the process of research, policy-making, and implementation in the field of health and poverty. To learn about the process in South Africa, we examined three commissions of inquiry relating poverty and health -- in 1929, 1942, and the early 1980s. Power relations of the players were a decisive factor and determined the type and nature of the research conducted.
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. pickwm@mweb.co.za
William
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Pick
Laetitia
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Rispel
Shan
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Naidoo
D005006:Ethnicity / Q000266:history; D006266:Health Education / Q000266:history; D006291:Health Policy / Q000266:history*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011203:Poverty / Q000266:history*; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology