Public healthcare personnel's experiences and opinions on access and readiness to provide mental health care in a remote rural area in South Africa.

Introduction: WHO encourages decentralising mental health care away from the tertiary locus of care into lower levels of care so as to reform mental healthcare worldwide. Recently, attempts have been made to facilitate the integration of public mental health care into general healthcare systems in South Africa. It is well established that the country's public healthcare system faces numerous multifaceted challenges - including very limited human, structural and material resources needed to accommodate and treat patients.

A community service doctor's experiences of mental healthcare provision in rural Eastern Cape.

Background: Literature shows that in South Africa there are insufficient resources to meet mental healthcare needs. At general or district hospital level, the non-specialist doctor is often responsible for the holistic assessment and management of mental health service users. Such situations inevitably increase doctors' care load as they are required to treat across disciplines.

To queue or not to queue: Facility managers and mental health care users' experiences of integrated health care in a rural South African district.

Background: A key feature of South Africa's state health care strategy since 1994 has been the development and expansion of services towards integrated health care at primary health care level. Within the new system, emphasis has been on the integration of patients with mental health care needs with other patients where multiple health conditions and needs would be addressed simultaneously. As part of a larger study into mental health care in a predominantly rural district, we investigated the experiences of facility managers and mental health service users in rural clinics within the system of care.

"A More Equitable Society": The Politics of Global Fairness in Paralympic Sport.

The Paralympic Movement explicitly sets out to create a more equitable society and promote participation for all and fairness in disability sport. This is primarily achieved through the use of a range of interventions with less attention given to how economic factors may hinder access and achievement in Paralympic sport. We investigated how country-level economic variables influence the level of participation and achievement in the 2015 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics Championships held in Doha.