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Explaining health inequalities in South Africa: A political economy perspective

John Ele-Ojo Ataguba Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Health Sciences Faculty, University of Cape Town, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Olufunke Alaba Health Economics Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Health Sciences Faculty, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Pages 756-764 | Published online: 05 Nov 2012

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Susan L. Davis-Strauss, Ensa Johnson & Welma Lubbe. (2022) Determining Postdischarge Needs of South African Parents With Premature Infants. Infants & Young Children 35:1, pages 40-53.
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Eva Goetjes, Milena Pavlova, Charles Hongoro & Wim Groot. (2021) Socioeconomic Inequalities and Obesity in South Africa—A Decomposition Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18:17, pages 9181.
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Marisa von Fintel. (2021) Chronic Child Poverty and Health Outcomes in South Africa Using a Multidimensional Poverty Measure. Child Indicators Research 14:4, pages 1571-1596.
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Dieter von Fintel & Linda Richter. (2019) Intergenerational transfer of health inequalities: exploration of mechanisms in the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa. BMJ Global Health 4:5, pages e001828.
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John Eyles, Bronwyn Harris, Jana Fried, Veloshnee Govender & Pascalia Munyewende. (2015) Endurance, resistance and resilience in the South African health care system: case studies to demonstrate mechanisms of coping within a constrained system. BMC Health Services Research 15:1.
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Hyacinth Eme Ichoku, Gavin Mooney & John Ele-Ojo Ataguba. (2013) Africanizing the Social Determinants of Health: Embedded Structural Inequalities and Current Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Health Services 43:4, pages 745-759.
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John Ele-Ojo Ataguba. (2013) Inequalities in multimorbidity in South Africa. International Journal for Equity in Health 12:1, pages 64.
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