#PODCAST Universal free health care will not be enough for SA to achieve a healthy and productive nation - Prof. Renata Schoeman #sabcnews episode artwork

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#PODCAST Universal free health care will not be enough for SA to achieve a healthy and productive nation - Prof. Renata Schoeman #sabcnews

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By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Access to health care is a basic human right, but achieving the healthy nation that South Africa needs for productivity and economic growth will take more than universal free health care. Those are the views of Professor Renata Schoeman from the Stellenbosch Business School. This follows the commemoration of World Health Day this past Sunday. Professor Schoeman says the continued focus on health as a human right, and on the accessibility of care through universal health insurance, dis-empowers people from taking responsibility for their own health...

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