- Title
- To evaluate the roles and functioning of community health committees within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Creator
- Gumbi, Nkhosivile M
- Subject
- Public health -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality -- Citizen participation
- Subject
- Political participation -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality -- Evaluation
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:9196
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020389
- Description
- Community participation is a concept that has been advocated for by bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO) for over two decades. In South Africa, community participation was included in the National Health Act (61 of 2003). Clinic and Community health facility committees were legislated as a method of involving communities in promoting health and improving health outcomes. During the year 2010, a process was initiated by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) to establish and train health committees at all health facilities. The purpose of this research report was to evaluate the effectiveness of community health committees within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, since 2010. Guidelines given in the Policy on the Establishment and Functioning of Clinic and Community Health Centre Committee (2009) were utilized as a point of reference for this study. The results showed that the community health committees trained in 2010 were functioning effectively as a result of the policy guidelines given. There still needs to be an improvement in the involvement of ward councilors, as stipulated in the National Health Act (61 of 2003), as well as in the implementation of the fundraising role, as set out in the Health Departments policy guidelines for health committees to implement.
- Format
- v, 55 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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