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Building Social Capital for Health Information
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
The concept of “social capital” has been re-engineered to reflect the level and use of knowledge within society. It includes the extent to which society can create, innovate and use knowledge. This new understanding of ...
Risk Factors for Helminth, Malaria, and HIV Infection in Pregnancy in Entebbe, Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2009)
factors for infections informs planning of interventions and analysis of the impact of infections on health outcomes.To describe risk factors for helminths, malaria and HIV in pregnant Ugandan women before intervention in ...
Financing the Millennium Development Goals: Is More Public Spending the Best Way to Meet Poverty Reduction Targets?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
The strategy for expanding public services through donor funding is flawed and is doomed to fail. Donor funding necessitates increased internal public expenditure. This shifts resources away from the export-oriented private ...
Health Inequalities Within a Nation: a Review of Two New Theories
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
What policies and values influence inequalities of health of individuals and populations? There are two main interpretations: a “materialist”, and “psycho-social” (Coburn D, 2000). It is suggested that the more a regime ...
A Review of Human Resource for Health in Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
The importance of human resources in health systems needs not to be over-emphasised. Expenditure on health workers forms a significant proportion of total health expenditure in many countries. In order to effectively ...
How Should Doctors Be Paid? Lessons From Theory and Practice
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
For long now, doctors in Uganda have been complaining that their terms of service, particularly remuneration, are not commensurate with the years that they spend training and the amount of work that they do. This issue has ...
Costing Health Services in Lacor Hospital
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
Health institutions all over the world are troubled by the intractable problems of shrinking resources and increasing demands for good quality services. Private-Not-For-Profit (PNFP) health units face even more serious ...
Selective Salary Reward for Health Workers: Realistic or a Distortion?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
Uganda’s civil service is perhaps one of those with some of the lowest salaries in the world. This has remained the case in spite of improvements in the pay package over the last decade. Staff working in the delivery of ...
The Bamako Initiative Was Not About Money
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)
The Bamako Initiative (BI) was a pragmatic strategy to implement primary health care (PHC) in the era of economic structural adjustment. Championed by UNICEF’s charismatic leader, James Grant, it sought to fill the gap ...
Economic Impact of Lacor Hospital on the Surrounding Area
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)
The health care industry is an important contributor to the economy, especially to that of the area surrounding health institutions. This effect is even more marked in the case of rural facilities. At national level, it ...