Exploring urban health in Cape Town, South Africa: an interdisciplinary analysis of secondary data

Abstract

Although important information gaps were identified, the data draw attention to critical public health interventions required in poor health districts, and to motivate for pro-equity policies.

Building Sustainable Networks: Introducing the Pan Institution Network for Global Health

“…The other project using secondary data identified priority areas for mother and child interventions in Cape Town, with partners from Pennsylvania State University, University of Cape Town, University of Freiburg, and Savitribai Phule Pune University. As a result, the investigators have had ongoing partnerships with multiple grants submitted and one published paper to date (Mumm et al 2017). One final project set out to develop new partnerships between Pennsylvania State University, Savitribai Phule Pune University, and the University of Cape Town to study vitamin D deficiency and pregnancy.…”

Global Health Collaboration

“…Lastly, this edited volume ends with a personal reflection from a long time global health scholar and the founder of the PINGH network. Mumm R, Diaz-Monsalve S, Hänselmann E et al (2017) Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.…”

Assessing Urban Health Data: A Case Study of Maternal and Child Health Data in Cape Town, South Africa

“…The aim of the study was a health gap analysis as a contribution to understand the health situation and to explore, to which health issues attention is paid to, what neglected diseases occur, or what neglected health issues are missing in the focus of researchers (Mumm et al 2017). Thus, such a health gap analysis allows an overview over existing information and data and represents a mirror of the capacity of the health system.…”

“…Based on the planning, execution, and reflection of the project, several lessons learned are listed below. Mumm et al (2017) x data fully available on aggregation level, (x) data incompletely available…”

“…In most African countries, there is poverty of reliable data on the subject, as a result, in most cases data on both maternal and child health outcomes is undocumented or incompletely documented (Mumm et al 2017). The fact that there is no suppository bank linking both public and private sector, makes it impossible for countries to accurately report the status of child and maternal health which is always marred by underreporting on maternal mortality.…”