| dc.contributor.advisor | Lungu, Gatian F. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kemp, Marion | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-15T09:07:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-15T09:07:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1995 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11394/10261 | |
| dc.description | Masters in Public Administration - MPA | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The success of community participation or community involvement in health is not only dependent on adequate support for the process from
the health services, but also on its implementation within an environment of political freedom, equality and the equitable distribution of resources. It is thus contended, that the forays by the apartheid South African state in the sphere of community participation in health in fact acted to mystify the inequity inherent in apartheid South African society. Through its promotion of a distorted form of community participation in health as a responsibility of individual communities and individuals, the ‘participatory process' promoted was one in which communities were expected to improve their health status without the political, legal and economic power to enforce the necessary structural changes in the environments in which they existed, This study traces the World Health Organisation's conception of community involvement in health, from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care in 1978; the adoption of community involvement or
community participation in health in its distorted form by the apartheid regime in South Africa through the 1977 Health Act; the refinement of this distorted concept in the early 1990s and its present application in the south coast area of the Western Cape province by this province's regional office of the Department of National Health and Population Development. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
| dc.subject | Community participation | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political freedom | en_US |
| dc.subject | Apartheid South African state | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political, legal and economic power | en_US |
| dc.subject | World health organisation's conception | en_US |
| dc.title | Popular participation in public health programmes at the local level : an evaluation of three local health committees in the south coast area of the Western Cape province. | en_US |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
