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Patients and Health Workers’ Engagement in Patient Safety in Healthcare in Kitgum General Hospital
(E-international Journals of Academic and Scientific Research, 2015)
The delivery of health care is known to involve potential safety risks for the
patients who are supposed to benefit from medical treatment and care. Over the years, efforts
have been put in place to reduce the occurrence ...
Association between malaria exposure and Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpes virus seropositivity in Uganda
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2015)
Objective: Unlike other herpes viruses, Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV) is not ubiquitous worldwide and is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. The reasons for this are unclear. As part of a wider investigation ...
Medical Litigation in Hospitals in Kampala, Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-07-20)
Seeking legal redress for harm sustained while receiving medical care is common in some developed countries but less common in most developing countries. However, unconfirmed reports suggest that litigation is on the ...
Relationship Between Management Practices and Employee Absenteeism in Public General Hospitals of East-Central Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-11-17)
Effective management practices play a pivotal role in influencing positive behavior among employees at the work place [1]-[2]. Absenteeism of employees signals organizational ill health. Studies indicate that management ...
Application of workload indicators of staffing needs (WISN) in determining health workers' requirements for Mityana general hospital, Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-08-30)
With reducing number of health workers amidst increasing disease burden, ever increasing population and limited resources, health systems are faced with challenges of providing adequate and quality health care globally. ...
Management of hospital security in general hospitals of Southwestern Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-06-20)
The management of security varies in different organizations including hospitals, and security is one of the major support
services needed for ensuring a safe environment of care. This study determined the management of ...
The Quality and Use of Maternal Health Care in Oyam District, Uganda: A baseline survey for an intervention
(Department of Health Sciences of Uganda Martyrs University, 2015-11-15)
Despite the availability of technically sound approaches, maternal mortality and other reproductive health problems persist in Uganda and other developing countries. Utilisation of maternal health services remains very ...
Making the transition to workload-based staffing:
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Background: Uganda’s health workforce is characterized by shortages and inequitable distribution of qualified health workers. To ascertain staffing levels, Uganda uses fixed government-approved norms determined by facility ...
Perceptions of Health Workers and Managers on the Use of Non-Monetary Human Resource Motivation Tools in General Hospitals of Central Uganda
(Open Science, 2015-08-30)
World over, there is a driving force to create a health care workplace that motivates, maintains and obtains the best out of
health workers. In order to achieve this, non-monetary tools can be employed by health managers ...
Improving Partograph Documentation and Use by Health Workers of Bwera Hospital
(Open Science, 2015-06-20)
In this action based research we undertook a pragmatic quality-improvement approach to the research. This article describes
improvements realized when an action research was carried out on maternity department in Bwera ...