TY - GEN
T1 - Challenges in the devolution of environmental health service delivery in South Africa
AU - Van Wyk, Renay
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Rapid urbanization is a critical challenge for those charged with service provision to urban areas in developing countries. Due to so many South Africans living under poor environmental conditions, our country is confronted by an enormous burden of disease. Providing adequate environmental health services continue to present many problems in South Africa. Despite the implicit knowledge expressed in policy documents, mission statements and broad aims of organisations striving to address environmental health service delivery, this knowledge is seldom found to be evident in current practice. There is an evident "separation of practice from theory". Investigating current practices and incorporate the development of the practitioners understanding of their current practice and transforming the practitioners' implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge.
AB - Rapid urbanization is a critical challenge for those charged with service provision to urban areas in developing countries. Due to so many South Africans living under poor environmental conditions, our country is confronted by an enormous burden of disease. Providing adequate environmental health services continue to present many problems in South Africa. Despite the implicit knowledge expressed in policy documents, mission statements and broad aims of organisations striving to address environmental health service delivery, this knowledge is seldom found to be evident in current practice. There is an evident "separation of practice from theory". Investigating current practices and incorporate the development of the practitioners understanding of their current practice and transforming the practitioners' implicit knowledge into explicit knowledge.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84900644855&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-0-387-88483-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-0-387-88483-7_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900644855
SN - 9780387884820
T3 - Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
SP - 115
EP - 120
BT - Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
PB - Springer Science and Business Media, LLC
T2 - 2007 3rd National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
Y2 - 12 September 2007 through 14 September 2007
ER -
