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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 ...
Factors Realated to the Uptake of Natural Family Planning by Clients of Catholic Health Units in Masaka Diocese, Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2008-12)
Globally and locally in Uganda, family planning (FP) is promoted to enable individuals and couples
to space and limit childbirth. FP promotion is based on demographic and health concerns and basic
human rights. Clients ...
Preparedness for Mass Casualities of Road Traffice Crashes in Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2011-04)
In Uganda, increase in human and vehicular populations against a non-expanding road infrastructure,
breakdown in enforcement of traffic regulations and poor vehicle quality contribute to the high rate
of casualties from ...
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 ...
Communities’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare in Public Health Facilities of Nakasongola District, Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-08-20)
Poor countries continue to register decreasing revenue to finance health care amidst rising demand with consequently growing out of pocket expenditure on health exceeding 35% of the total health care expenditure; this ...
The State of Mortuary and Mortuary Services in Public Health Facilities of South Western Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-11-10)
Mortuaries and mortuary services are very crucial support services to healthcare delivery. Information on the status of mortuary services in Uganda is largely missing. This study therefore was carried out to assess the ...
Common Medical Errors and Error Reporting Systems in Selected Hospitals of Central Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-08-30)
Medical errors are under studied in the developing world, therefore, this study set out to identify common errors committed during provision of health care and error management systems in the hospitals with reference to ...
Using the workload indicator of staffing needs (WISN) methodology to assess work pressure among the nursing staff of Lacor hospital.
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2008-04-01)
In their effort to provide adequate and quality health services, health systems in both developed and the developing countries have to confront the challenges of an ever increasing population with limited or diminishing ...
Technical efficiency in the presence of desirable and undesirable outputs: a case study of selected district referral hospitals in Uganda.
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2008-04)
The general practice in technical efficiency measurement for health providers has been to ignore additional products of most transformation processes that can be classified as “undesirable outputs” — which are a subset of ...