Lessons learnt from advocating for family medicine in South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

 
 
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Title Lessons learnt from advocating for family medicine in South Africa
 
Creator Mash, Robert J. Von Pressentin, Klaus Nash, Jenny Ras, Tasleem
 
Subject Family medicine family physicians; advocacy; government policy; human resources for health; district health services
Description South Africa has one of the most established family medicine disciplines in the region, with well over 1000 people on the register. Nevertheless, by international standards, the number of family physicians per 10 000 population is low and there is still a need to advocate for the contribution of family physicians to the health system. The speciality of family medicine was promulgated in 2007 after many years of advocacy. Advocacy has continued with a focus on human resources for health policy and deployment of family physicians in district health services. In the private sector, there is also advocacy for the scope of practice and proper remuneration of family physicians. This short report reflects on the lessons learnt in terms of seven key principles for advocacy with government: understand the issue, identify the right audience, build relationships, use evidence and data, craft a clear message, engage the public, and use the media.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2025-01-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/phcfm.v17i1.4795
 
Source African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 17, No 1 (2025); 4 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928
 
Language eng
 
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https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4795/7857 https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4795/7858 https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4795/7859 https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/4795/7860
 
Coverage South Africa — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2025 Robert J. Mash, Klaus Von Pressentin, Jenny Nash, Tasleem Ras https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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