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
- Recommendations to reduce the attrition rate of health professionals in Uganda
- O. Paul / Health Policy and Development Journal, 2008
- This paper, published in Health Policy and Development journal, compares the attrition rates of health professionals in three private not-for-profit and three government general hospitals in West Nile Region, Uganda, between 1999 and ...
- Kampala declaration and agenda for global action
- Global health workforce alliance, 2008
- The Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global Action was formulated at the First Global Forum on Human Resources for Health that was held in Kampala, Uganda in March 2008. It recognises the need for immediate action to resolve the acc...
- Food assistance and HIV: a step-by-step guide to integrated programming
- Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
- This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes. It identifies key challenges to integrated HIV programming: inadequate understanding of how to address the overlap...
- Strengthening the management of health service delivery in South Africa, Togo and Uganda
- D. Egger; E. Ollier / World Health Organization, 2007
- This World Health Organization study describes various activities aimed towards strengthening the management of health service delivery in three countries: South Africa, Togo and Uganda. The paper considers the following factors that ...
- Can access to, and quality of health care be improved by strengthening the accountability of health service providers?
- M Börkman; S.J. Svensson / Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, 2007
- This paper presents a randomised field experiment on increasing community-based monitoring. It particularly focuses on looking at whether access to, and quality of health care can be improved by strengthening the relationship of accou...
- Policies for making access to health care equitable in Uganda and Cambodia
- B. Meessen; W. Van Damme; C. K. Tashobya; A. Tibouti / The Lancet, 2006
- This Lancet article examines two countries efforts towards making access to health care more equitable. It compares the abolition of user fees in Uganda and the establishment of health equity funds in Cambodia and identifies key issue...
- Research and resources on good practice in youth-friendly sexual health services
- E. Scholl; W. Finger / YouthNet, Family Health International, 2007
- Often health services for young people address contraception or prevention of HIV/STIs, but not both. Would an integrated approach to sexual health services reduce unwanted pregnancies and HIV/STIs among young people? This briefing pa...
- Opportunities and challenges created by the new funding for HIV programmes
- M. Bernstein; M. Sessions / Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
- This paper from the Center for Global Development examines the amount of money provided for HIV programmes by the three main global funders since 2004. These three are the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ...
- How does conflict affect the incidence of sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa?
- L. B. Ford / Conflict and health, 2007
- This article, published in Conflict and Health journal, reviews the processes by which conflict has contributed to the occurrence of sleeping sickness in Africa. In particular, the paper focuses on sleeping sickness in south-eastern U...
- Priority setting in a Ugandan hospital: identifying good practices and opportunities for improvements
- L. Kapiriri; D. K. Martin / Health Services Research [journal], 2006
- This article, published by Health Services Research in BioMed Central, describes how priorities are set in a teaching hospital in Uganda and uses an ethical framework to evaluate whether this process is a fair one. In particular, it a...
- 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
