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Essay / Benefits of National Health Insurance in South Africa
These benefit packages describe different types of services offered within a specific category and are organized under different levels of public healthcare services. These benefit packages are also useful in identifying barriers to achieving equity and accessibility and thereby intervening on these barriers by planning definitive strategies for promoting the overall distribution of health service programs. These definitive strategies include financial resources, measures to improve accessibility, referrals or timely feedback of patients in different healthcare settings. With standards established based on these social benefits, the national Ministry of Health could be able to measure program objectives and compare the performance of different levels of care within facilities such as provincial facilities, district, national.