Article
Journal of Public Health Policy (2008) 29, 165–178. doi:10.1057/jphp.2008.1
Poverty, Health and Policy: A Historical Look at the South African Experience
William Pick1, Laetitia Rispel2 and Shan Naidoo3
- 1University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- 2Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
- 3University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Correspondence: William Pick, A106 Dolphin Beach, Marine Drive, Table View, Cape Town, Western Cape 7441, South Africa. E-mail: pickwm@mweb.co.za
Abstract
The resurgence of interest in links between health and development raises interesting questions about the process of research, policy-making, and implementation in the field of health and poverty. To learn about the process in South Africa, we examined three commissions of inquiry relating poverty and health – in 1929, 1942, and the early 1980s. Power relations of the players were a decisive factor and determined the type and nature of the research conducted.
Keywords:
health, poverty, policy analysis, South Africa, millennium development goals, apartheid, poor whites, Carnegie, Gluckman
