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There is already a high burden of disease in South Africa linked to environmental stressors and climate change will exacerbate many of these social and environmental issues. [26] Climate change is projected to threaten public health through increased heat stress, rises in vector-borne diseases and infectious diseases, worsening extreme weather ...
In 2020, South Africa's GINI coefficient was 62.73, the highest of any country, indicating a high-level of income inequality. [5] The top 20% of South Africa's population holds 70% of all income earned by the country, with this group consisting mainly of White South Africans. [6]
In South Africa, private and public health systems exist in parallel. The public system serves the vast majority of the population. Authority and service delivery are divided between the national Department of Health, provincial health departments, and municipal health departments.
Malnutrition can lead to an onslaught of additional health complications, [8] and eventually even death. [9] In fact, UNICEF found that 11.4% of deaths of South African children under five can be attributed to low weight, making low birth weight the second most prominent cause of children's death in South Africa. [10]
Disease burden is the impact of a health problem as measured by financial cost, ... vi The regions most affected are in the WHO Africa and South-East Asia regions ...
HIV/AIDS is one of the most serious health concerns in South Africa. South Africa has the highest number of people afflicted with HIV of any country, and the fourth-highest adult HIV prevalence rate, according to the 2019 United Nations statistics. [1] About 8 million South Africans out of the 60 million population live with HIV. [2]
These diseases affect one-sixth of the world's population, with 90 percent of the disease burden occurring in sub-Saharan Africa. [123] Information on the frequency of neglected tropical diseases is of low quality. It is currently difficult to summarize all of the information on this family of diseases.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is the national public health institute of South Africa, [1] providing reference to microbiology, virology, epidemiology, surveillance and public health research to support the government's response to communicable disease threats. [2] [3]