Health Systems Stellenbosch University

Overview

Health Systems from Stellenbosch University programme is designed to accommodate full-time practitioners from a range of fields including social work, medicine, nursing, health economics, public health, health service management, policy-making and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). 

Key facts

The programme enhances the participant’s knowledge and skills in health systems strengthening and research, public health and practice.

The MPhil in Health Systems programme covers the following topics: governance, financial and delivery arrangements for healthcare and public health services, implementation of considerations for reforming or strengthening these arrangements, and broader economic, legal, political and social contexts in which these arrangements operate and are negotiated.

The programme comprises two tracks, allowing for a focused approach to health systems and services research (HSSR track) and health economic evaluation (HEE track).

The purpose of the HSSR track is to capacitate participants to:• understand the evidence-informed policy process;• define and prioritise health and healthcare delivery problems;• select the best approaches to a problem, adapt these approaches sensitively to local contexts or develop new inventions, test the approaches in real world conditions, select the most successful ones for wider implementation, and smoothly integrate them into the health system to achieve an improvement of the problem and to reinforce rather than strain the abilities of the health system.