Poverty alleviation = good medicine.

نویسنده

  • Chris Bateman
چکیده

Health workers can have a dramatic impact on malnutrition and disease simply by brushing up on the qualifying criteria for welfare grants and encouraging patients to apply. The importance of doctor intervention emerged last month when the SAMJ spoke to welfare officials, social workers and educationists about the problems besetting the social security system. Cati Vawda, director of the Children's Rights Centre in Durban, explained that 'increased malnutrition and the impact of HIV/AIDS aggravates poverty and means more pressure on health workers. Good medicine equals good grants it's that simple'.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde

دوره 93 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003