title: Health Care in South Africa.
abstract: The South African health care system is embedded in a background of racial subordination and sexual violence against girls and women and of hierarchical male authority from youth to adulthood. Low wages, unemployment, urban overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, malnutrition, crime, and violence have contributed to economic and health inequality. With more health-insured whites than blacks and the proportion of gross national product spent on health care slowly increasing, two-thirds of health expenditures have been consumed by the private sector at a time when the cost of health insurance has risen to more than 3 times the rate of the consumer price index.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neuroepidemiology, Department of Neurology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: david.younger@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: David S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Younger
mesh_terms: D044383:Black People; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D011634:Public Health; D063505:Racism; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People
keywords: Epidemiology; Global health; Health care; Public health; South Africa