Overcoming fragmentation and waste in health care systems in Africa: Collaboration of health care professionals with pastoral caregivers
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Overcoming fragmentation and waste in health care systems in Africa: Collaboration of health care professionals with pastoral caregivers | |
| Creator | Agbiji, Emem Landman, Christina | |
| Description | This article explores the possibility and limits of collaboration between medical professionals and pastoral caregivers with a view to overcoming fragmentation and waste in the African hospital care sector. It argues that the quality of health and health care in many African countries is poor. Therefore, a purposeful reform of health care delivery systems in Africa is necessary. Building on the World Health Organization’s statement that the medical model that focuses on medicine and surgery and ignores the factors of belief and faith in healing is no longer satisfactory, it further argues that the medical model (including the bio-psychosocial model) is not sufficient for holistic hospital care; it therefore needs to accommodate complementary approaches (such as pastoral care) and include these as collaborative treatments. The connection of collaboration with quality, value, relationships and the ending of life implies that collaboration is an ethical process of reflection – which could have a legal implication. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2014-11-07 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/hts.v70i2.2654 | |
| Source | HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 70, No 2 (2014); 11 pages 2072-8050 0259-9422 | |
| Language | eng | |
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https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/2654/5109
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/2654/5110
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/2654/5111
https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/2654/4857
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