Ensuring accelerated accessibility and affordability of treatment services for COVID-19 patients in Zimbabwe : an urgent call to action
| dc.contributor.author | Murewanhema, Grant | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa | |
| dc.contributor.author | Herrera, Helena | |
| dc.contributor.author | Musuka, Godfrey | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-18T10:33:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-18T10:33:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Timely access to quality healthcare services is a basic human right. Governments globally have a responsibility to ensure wider coverage and access, particularly to essential and lifesaving healthcare services. For these reasons, there has been a strong call for universal health coverage. Private medical insurance promotes inequalities in accessing care, perpetuated by ever-widening socioeconomic gaps. In resource-constrained settings, the lower and more vulnerable social classes suffer more from disparities during crisis times such as the COVID-19 pandemic. | en_US |
| dc.description.department | School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) | en_US |
| dc.description.librarian | dm2022 | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.samj.org.za | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Murewanhema, G., Dzinamarira, T., Herrera, H. et al. Ensuring accelerated accessibility and affordability of treatment services for COVID-19 patients in Zimbabwe: An urgent call to action. South African Medical Journal, vol. 111, no. 10, pp. 922, oct. 2021. doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2021.v111i10.16035. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2078- 5135 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0256-9574 (print) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.7196/SAMJ.2021.v111i10.16035 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87787 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Health and Medical Publishing Group | en_US |
| dc.rights | This open-access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Healthcare | en_US |
| dc.subject | Universal health coverage (UHC) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Accessibility | en_US |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 pandemic | en_US |
| dc.subject | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Affordability | en_US |
| dc.subject | Zimbabwe | en_US |
| dc.title | Ensuring accelerated accessibility and affordability of treatment services for COVID-19 patients in Zimbabwe : an urgent call to action | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |