Uganda and Health systems
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- HINARI
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Documents from the Hinari service are available online and are either free of charge or available at reduced rates to registered users in developing countries How to access the full text of articles
- The BLDS health collection
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Search for the latest health-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- The potential of mobile phones in improving global health
- The Economist, 2009
- This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors de...
- Innovations in developing country health care delivery through social franchises
- University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
- Social franchising represents one of the best known ways to rapidly scale up clinical health interventions in developing countries. Building upon existing expertise in poor and isolated communities, social franchising organisations en...
- The impact of global health initiatives on equity in financing Uganda's health sector
- Charlotte M Zikusooka; Mark Tumwine; Patrick Tutembe / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
- Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has bee...
- A guide to ensuring occupational safety and health in the health services sector
- US Agency for International Development, 2008
- These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors a...
- Pro-poor strategies for financing and delivering health services in mixed health systems
- D Donika; S Sealy; S Bergkvist / Results for Development Institute, 2009
- In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care. In these &ldq...
- Physical and sexual violence is associated with multiple adverse health behaviours
- D. W. Brown; L. Riley; A. Butchart / Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2009
- This article, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, examines associations between exposure to physical violence (PV) or sexual violence (SV) and adverse health behaviours among a sample of children in five Africa...
- Worker retention is a challenge for human resources for health
- F. Yumkella / The Capacity Project, 2009
- There is increasingly widespread commitment to initiatives to attract and retain skilled workers, especially in rural areas. Retention continues to be a serious challenge in the human resources for health (HRH) crisis. This brief from...
- How to include the perspectives of persons with disabilities in the project cycle management
- C. Naughton (ed) / Make Development Inclusive: mainstreaming disability in development cooperation, 2008
- Although one in five of the world’s poorest people are disabled, disability itself has not been included in world leaders’ plans to meet the millennium development goals. This manual is designed to be used during the proje...
- Coordination from new and existing donors needed to achieve global goals
- R. Brugha; M. Donoghue; M. Starling / The Lancet, 2004
- This paper published in the Lancet, tracks early implementation experiences of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four African countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Interim findings are based on ...
- Reviewing health service implementation
- J. Janovsky; D. Peters / World Health Organization, 2006
- In recent years, a number of specific strategies for improving health services and strengthening health systems have been consistently advocated. In order to advise governments, the World Health Organization(WHO) commissioned this exp...
- African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
Tanzanian organisation promoting affordable and culturally appropriate palliative care in Africa
- Makerere University Institute of Public Health, Uganda (MUIPH)
- Training and research institute
