Part one: Diagnostic-related groupers
Percept | January 2023 The utility and feasibility of diagnosis-related groupers for South Africa’s public health sector Part one provides context and background to DRGs, explaining how they are used and...
Part two: Patient classification and case-mix systems
Percept | January 2023 Patient classification and case mix in primary healthcare South Africa plans to move to clinical coding across its health system as part of the NHI. Part two...
Lessons for SA on transitioning to Universal Health Coverage from the German experience
Percept | July 2020 Percept has been working with the Inclusive Society Institute on engaging health-sector stakeholders in deep discourse on South Africa's path to Universal Health Coverage. This report reflects learnings...
Looking into the crystal ball: trajectories for South Africa over the next 12 months
Shivani Ranchod | July 2020 Written for the Board of Healthcare Funders Covid-19 has stripped away the illusion of certainty: there is no room for denial. After months of a global...
No time to wait
Covid-19 does not arrive to a blank canvas. Instead, it snakes through pre-existing queues, igniting sites of vulnerability. As it does, it teaches us that we cannot have a...
Pickled Fish
A story about food that is a story about heritage, neighbourliness and innovation.
Percept and BLM
Perceptors | June 2020 The events of the last few weeks have resonated deeply with the Percept team – we’ve been saddened and enraged, we’ve turned inward to engage our...
We need caution, robust methods and strong evidence when quantifying the mortality impacts from the Covid-19 recession
Anja Smith | May 2020 During the last two weeks debates and discussions on the direct mortality impacts of Covid-19 relative to the mortality impacts that will flow from the...
We were already sick: Covid-19, non-communicable diseases, and the health response we really need.
Beth Vale | May 2020 In 1971, epidemiologist Abdel Omran, published an influential article in which he declared that humanity was undergoing an ‘epidemiological transition.’ The world was no longer...
Corona testing: the cost of certainty
Shivani Ranchod | March 2020 As with so much surrounding the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated Covid-19 illness, people world over are faced with trade-offs between the individual desire to...