Understanding gender inequality
Percept | May 2023 Gendered and unequal patterns of giving, receiving, and seeking care are significant features of South Africa’s inequality. Caring processes show up the uneven way financial and...
Understanding youth inequality
Percept | February 2023 Young South Africans make up over a third of the country’s total population. They should be the engine of the economy, society, and democracy. But instead,...
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...
Inequality and demography
Percept | July 2022 South Africa is widely regarded as the most unequal country in the world, ranking at the top of the global Gini index. The fact that South...
Learning lessons for education from the use of results-based financing (RBF) in health
Percept | May 2022 The health sector provides an important knowledge base to draw on, both from the perspective of using RBF and in terms of the challenges it faces...
Ideas of hope: policy directions and recommendations for reducing inequality in South Africa
Percept | April 2022 At this current crucial point in South Africa's history, multidimensional inequality remains high. In this follow-up to our first inequality report, we unpack and assess potential...
Trends in multidimensional inequality and socio-demographic change in South Africa during 27 years of democracy
Percept | February 2022 Almost three decades have passed since the fall of apartheid, and income inequality persists. Economic growth, equity and social cohesion in South Africa are generally considered...
NCD Brief One – Staring into the Abyss
Staring into the abyss: What we know about the burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa Percept | January 2022 Non-communicable disease (NCD) is a catch-all term for diseases that are...
NCD Brief Two – The double-edged sword of a longer life
The double-edged sword of a longer life: NCDs, age and ageing Percept | January 2022 Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) collectively account for more than 70% of global deaths, withover half of those...