{"id":92724,"date":"2023-08-16T06:45:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=92724"},"modified":"2023-08-16T06:45:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T06:45:51","slug":"south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=92724","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Incentives Seem to Work in Private Healthcare, Why Not in Public?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>spotlight] Doing &#8216;the right thing&#8217; for one&#8217;s health, be it eating well, exercising, or going for an annual HIV test or blood pressure check, is easier said than done. One way to nudge people to make these &#8216;right&#8217; decisions is to offer rewards or incentives. Discovery Health Medical Scheme&#8217;s Vitality programme is probably the best local example of such an incentive programme&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202308140497.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spotlight] Doing &#8216;the right thing&#8217; for one&#8217;s health, be it eating well, exercising, or going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public.jpg",960,588,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public-300x184.jpg",300,184,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public-768x470.jpg",640,392,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public.jpg",640,392,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public.jpg",960,588,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public.jpg",960,588,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public.jpg",960,588,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/92724-south-africa-incentives-seem-to-work-in-private-healthcare-why-not-in-public-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}