Challenges in the devolution of environmental health service delivery in South Africa

Renay Van Wyk

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-88483-7_16

Challenges in the devolution of environmental health service delivery in South Africa

Renay Van Wyk

Environmental Health

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media, LLC
Pages	115-120
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9780387884820
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88483-7_16
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	2007 3rd National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology - Greensboro, NC, United States Duration: 12 Sept 2007 → 14 Sept 2007

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Name	Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology

Conference

Conference	2007 3rd National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
Country/Territory	United States
City	Greensboro, NC
Period	12/09/07 → 14/09/07

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Environmental Engineering

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Van Wyk, R. (2009). Challenges in the devolution of environmental health service delivery in South Africa. In Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (pp. 115-120). (Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology). Springer Science and Business Media, LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88483-7_16

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Van Wyk, R 2009, Challenges in the devolution of environmental health service delivery in South Africa. in Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology. Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, pp. 115-120, 2007 3rd National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, Greensboro, NC, United States, 12/09/07. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88483-7_16

Challenges in the devolution of environmental health service delivery in South Africa. / Van Wyk, Renay.
Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology. Springer Science and Business Media, LLC, 2009. p. 115-120 (Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology).

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Challenges in the devolution of environmental health service delivery in South Africa

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