Who is to blame and who will fix it?
It is hard to hold our kids fully responsible for this poor result. Turn off the TVs and get them a
ctive. Our kids are spending about 3 hours a day in front of the TV (sedentary behaviours rated F)
- B for government measures to combat physical inactivity
- C sports participation and transportation
- D overall physical activity levels
- D physical education
- D school environment
- D community and built environment
Click here to read the full Discovery Vitality Healthy Active Kids South Africa Report Card 2014
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The SA NCD Alliance is hosting a NCDs Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Kopano.
Kopano = Setswana for – meeting- unity – together all spot on for this NCDs gathering.
Dates: 17-18 November 2014 (1 1/2 days)
Venue: Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre
Places: limited and attendance is primarily by invitation
Target stakeholders: patient advocacy groups, civil society, national and provincial health department officials, trade and professional associations, researchers.
Objectives of the Kopano are to achieve the following in relation to NCDs HSS:
- to explore the way in which patient advocates /civil society groups can work with government (national and provincial)
- to outline a plan of action for collaboration in the next 3 years
- to ensure that NCDs are prioritised in all-of-government and all of society.
Areas to be addressed are:
- Integration of NCDs interventions and services into existing heath platforms/services especially at a primary health care level. HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and maternal and child health, school health for starters. Which health care workers will provided NCDs care? What is their training? How can patients and NGOs be better involved to contribute towards a patient-centred health system? We are particularly keen to find out how NCDs fits into the NDoH’s plans for the unpublished but much vaunted Integrated Chronic Disease Management Model.
- Patient empowerment See the review on person centre care and self-management.
How do we involve patients in the development and running of health services to meet their needs? Are we talking the same language?
- Multisectoral collaboration
Are there examples of successful public/private partnerships? Which areas are ripe for collaboration? How can the different sectors work together on HSS for NCDs? Where does the proposed National Health Commission fit in? How will all-of-government and all of society work?
- Quality of care
How is progress on the NCDs plan to be measured and evaluated? How is it to be reported? What does accountability look like? What are the indicators, standards etc.?
Essential reading:
Maisha Hutton, of the Healthy Caribbean Coalition, suggests these frameworks looking at HSS:
If you haven’t received your invitation yet and feel that you should attend, please contact Vicki Pinkney-Atkinson
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At last! Here is the stakeholder report from our “Call to NCDs Action” meeting in February.
It outlines SA NCDs Plan and targets for 2020, our stakeholder network, SWOT analysis and a short-term multisector action plan.
SA NCDs Stakeholders Meeting Report 16June 2014 final
The 16th June is our own special holiday to commemorate the Student Uprising in 1976 – Youth Day. We offer this report as a tiny part of the legacy for the youth of South Africa.
Remember how we all dressed in red to support heart health for women and children? That and the CANSA bandannas helped us to bond.
Now we all know that red is the colour of one of our top trade unions. Since then we have had the elections. The scenes from the swearing parliamentarians dressed in the very red of the new party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
At a NCDs presentation I made there was uproarious laughter at the picture of us all dressed in red. I was a bit miffed, a complete failure of humour, not understanding what the audience was laughing at. Now I do… I was so engrossed in the NCDs Freedom Fighters that it was my colour. Long live NCDs Freedom Fighters. Long live.
