Sharing the expertise and experiences of different health and social care professionals can improve the quality of care that’s provided
The situation is made worse by a growing burden of disease and the population’s increasingly complex health needs. For example, many people living with HIV may also have a non-communicable disease such as hypertension.
Some of this work is already underway. For instance, an undergraduate inter-professional education curriculum is offered to all health and social care students at the University of the Western Cape where I lecture and conduct my research. But more must be done to ensure that everyone involved in the public health sector is equipped to work in teams and so address the country’s many challenges.
There are champions of interprofessional education and collaborative practice at some African universities. A number have begun to integrate interprofessoinal education and collaborative practice into their health programmes. These include Zambia’s Copperbelt University, Moi University in Kenya, Ghana’s University of Development Studies, the University of Namibia, the University of Botswana and South Africa’s University of Free State.
South Africa has made some positive strides. It has established ward-based primary health care outreach teams, school health teams and district clinical specialist teams.
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