What is COVID-19 teaching us about community health systems? A reflection from a rapid community-led mutual aid response in Cape Town, South Africa

M Van Ryneveld, E Whyle… - International journal of …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the wide gaps in South
Africa's formal social safety net, with the country's high levels of inequality, unemployment …

[HTML][HTML] Every loaf of bread is political–Reflections on collective care responses to Covid-19 in Cape Town

M van Ryneveld, H Schneider, L Brady… - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Feminist perspectives on care have demonstrated how capitalism undervalues care work.
The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted this further, as systems of production and social …

A community-based ambulance model: lessons for emergency medical services and everyday health systems resilience from South Africa

L Brady, L Gilson, A George, SD Vries… - Health policy and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The role of the emergency medical service (EMS) is changing globally as ambulance crews
respond to a shifting burden of disease, as well as societal stressors such as violence and …

Chapter «Professors of the Street»: Cognitive Justice in Times of 'Crisis'

S Walters - 2023 - library.oapen.org
Arundati Roy (2020) states that historically pandemics have forced humans to break with the
past and imagine their world anew. This chapter, set in the COVID-19 pandemic, centres the …

Clash of Cultures: Bureaucracy Meets Localism, Informality, and Trust in Responding to the Covid-19 Crisis in Cape Town

M van Ryneveld, E Whyle… - … on Community Responses …, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Cape Town Together (CTT) emerged in early March 2020 as a neighbourhoodlevel, bottom-
up response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa. The impetus behind it …