Aloes of the World project

Klopper, Ronell R.; Smith, Gideon F.; Demissew, Sebsebe

doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2007.02.066

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“…In the health sector, the government's response to budgetary pressures reveals an acceptance of, and commitment to, neoliberal economic ideologies that legitimate the state's abdication of the responsibility for the provision of healthcare, the privatisation of service delivery and a focus on individual responsibility [72,75,77]. In 1986, the Browne Commission Inquiry into Health Services, clearly influenced by a commitment to privatisation, conceded that there was no evidence that the private sector is more efficient, and that privatisation had no benefit to users, but nonetheless supported deregulation of medical schemes, including the acceptance of risk rating, threshold payments, and co-payments and deductibles [75,78,79].…”

Section: Late 1970s and 1980s: Neoliberalism Financial Crisis And Pol...mentioning

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A socio-political history of South Africa’s National Health Insurance

Whyle,

Olivier

2023

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Background. Spurred by the WHO’s endorsement of universal health coverage as a universal goal of health systems, many countries are undertaking health financing reforms. The nature of these reforms, and the policy processes by which they are achieved, will depend on context-specific factors, including the history of reform efforts and the political imperatives driving reforms. South Africa’s pursuit of universal health coverage through a National Health Insurance is the latest in a nearly 100-year history of health system reform efforts shaped by social and political realities. Methods. We conducted an interdisciplinary, retrospective literature review to explore how these reform efforts have unfolded, and been shaped by the contextual realities of the moment. We began the review by identifying peer-reviewed literature on health system reform in South Africa, and iteratively expanded the search through author tracking, citation tracking and purposeful searches for material on particular events or processes referenced in the initial body of evidence. Data was extracted and organised chronologically into nine periods. Results. The analysis suggests that in South Africa politics; the power of the private sector; competing policy priorities and budgetary constraints; and ideas, values and ideologies have been particularly important in constraining, and sometimes spurring, health system reform efforts. Political transitions and pressures, including the introduction of apartheid in 1948, anti-apartheid opposition, the transition to democracy, and corruption and governance failures, have alternately created political imperatives for reform, and constrained reform efforts. In addition, the country’s political history has given rise to dominant ideas, values and ideologies that imbue health system reform with a particular social meaning. While these ideas and values increase opposition and complicate reform efforts, they also help to expose the inequities of the current system as problematic and re-emphasise the need for reform. Conclusion. Ultimately, this analysis demonstrates the context-specific nature of health system reform processes and the influence of history on what sorts of reforms are politically feasible and socially acceptable, even in the context of a global push for universal health coverage.

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A socio-political history of South Africa’s National Health Insurance

Whyle,

Olivier

2023

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“…As part of the ongoing Aloes of the World project on the genus Aloe L. (Smith et al, 2008a, b;Klopper et al, 2010;Smith, 2013;Klopper & Smith, 2013), a comprehensive database of known names and other nomenclatural information is kept up-to-date. Thus far, 958 epithets published in Aloe (sensu Grace et al, 2011) since 1753 have been recorded in this database (Figueiredo & Smith, 2010;Grace et al, 2011;Smith et al, 2011).…”

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A note on four historical names recorded inAloeL. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

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“…history of Alooideae are well summarized by smith and Van and Klopper et al (2010). Though the medicinal properties of Aloe species have been used throughout history, only a few of the 624 species are actually used in traditional medicines (Kim et al, 2013).…”

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Genetic relationship of Aloe vera 'Saengjang', a new forma, based on cpDNA and ITS sequence variation

Srikanth¹,

Jang²,

Whang³

2014

Korean Journal of Plant Taxonomy

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This study was carried out to understand the genetic relationship of three Aloe spp. cultivated in Korea, A. saponaria, A. vera and A. arborescens and a new variant in Korea based on three plastid (matK, trnL-F, rbcL) and one nuclear (ITS regions) DNA barcode markers. A total of 2,420 bp sequence was amplified. Two indels were detected in the trnL region, and also several species specific nucleotide loci were detected in all 29 parsimonious informative sites, and 148 variable sites were detected among four taxa studied while 170 variable and 75 parsimonious sites were detected when other Aloe spp. in worldwide were used. An UPGMA phenogram with 10,000 bootstrap replication showed that the new variant was closest to A. vera. The variant was not morphologically and genetically concurrent with any reported species so far. The clustering of Aloe species were broadly in agreement with previously reported results.

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Aloes of the World project

Cited by 4 publications

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A socio-political history of South Africa’s National Health Insurance

A socio-political history of South Africa’s National Health Insurance

A note on four historical names recorded inAloeL. (Asphodelaceae: Alooideae)

Genetic relationship of Aloe vera 'Saengjang', a new forma, based on cpDNA and ITS sequence variation

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