Exploration of the underlying causes of high waiting times at a community health centre in Cape Town, South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorReagon, Gavin
dc.contributor.authorPiquer, Russel
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-06T09:07:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-03T08:47:53Z
dc.date.available2018-12-14T22:10:04Z
dc.date.available2024-05-03T08:47:53Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.descriptionMagister Commercii (Information Management) - MCom(IM)en_US
dc.description.abstractAt public sector health facilities in Cape Town, South Africa, patients experience very high waiting times, with a medium waiting time of 3 hours which prevailed at the study facility being common. So the question arose as to why waiting times are so very high and what could be done to reduce them? While for the facility under investigation the immediate causes of the high waiting times were known, the underlying causes were quite opaque. A concern expressed therefore, was that if the underlying causes were not uncovered then efforts to reduce waiting times might not be successful, as they would just address the immediate causes. The legitimacy of the concern derives from the view that if underlying causes are not addressed, then they will continue to exert an influence on the immediate causes, and therefore perpetuate the environment which creates fertile ground for immediate causes to arise and persist, with resultant persistence of high waiting times. Hence, my interest to undertake research to explore the underlying causes of high waiting times.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/12684
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderThe University of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectWaiting timesen_US
dc.subjectWaiting Times Surveyen_US
dc.subjectImmediate causesen_US
dc.subjectHigh waiting timesen_US
dc.subjectUnderlying causesen_US
dc.subjectRecommendationsen_US
dc.subjectService pointsen_US
dc.subjectHealth facilityen_US
dc.subjectPrimary health careen_US
dc.titleExploration of the underlying causes of high waiting times at a community health centre in Cape Town, South Africaen_US

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