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Planning Health Care For Internally Displaced Persons: Experiences in Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
A significant proportion of Ugandans have at one time or another been forced to flee their homes. In 1997 alone, point prevalence revealed that 2,000,000 persons were displaced and it is estimated that currently about 1.6 ...
Delivering Health Care to IDPs: Experiences and Challenges in Katakwi District
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
There are two broad categories of IDPs in Katakwi district by cause; those displaced by the Karamojong rustlers and those displaced by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) incursion. Sporadic Karamajong raids started over 50 ...
The Role of Governments in Ending and Preventing Armed Conflicts
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
The war in northern Uganda is ending, or is it? The official Government position is that the war is practically over. And they have evidence for it. Rebel soldiers are surrendering in droves, and the Lord’s Resistance Army ...
Malaria and DDT: Myths and Facts
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
Around the world, about 2,400 million people, in about 100 countries and territories, are still at risk of contracting Malaria. Between 300 and 500 million of them get the disease each year and between 1.1 and 2.7 million ...
Is DDT Safe? Considering Its Use For Malaria Control in Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
The insecticide DDT has been very successfully used for many years in malaria control programmes around the world. We assess the validity of the allegations that DDT is harmful to human health and the environment and find ...
Defining Equity in Health
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-12)
For purposes of measurement and operationalisation, equity in health is the absence of systematic disparities in health (or in the major social determinants of health) between groups with different levels of underlying ...
Innovative Approaches to Community Mobilisation Forimmunisation in Maracha Health Sub District, Arua District
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-12)
For years, the vaccination coverage for the indicator doses (DPT3) in Maracha Health Sub-District (HSD) have not reached the 80% target set by the Ministry of health. The Health Sub District management team brainstormed ...
Targeting IDPs with Food AID: WFP Assistance in Northern Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations (UN) agency responding to humanitarian emergencies by delivering food aid to vulnerable populations worldwide. The protracted insurgency in northern Uganda resulted in ...
Measuring Patient Satisfaction in UCMB Health Institutions
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-12)
There is growing interest to measure patient satisfaction and collect the views of patients about the services they use. Satisfaction is essential if we have to get people utilize services, comply with treatments and improve ...
How Much Do Lab Tests Cost? Analysis of Lacor Hospital Laboratory Services
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
An analysis of the laboratory activity costs was done in the Laboratory Department of Lacor Hospital in order to calculate the global cost of each test and to evaluate the cost effectiveness of the service. The study is a ...