Uganda Martyrs University Institutional Repository: Recent submissions

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    • Relationship Between Management Practices and Employee Absenteeism in Public General Hospitals of East-Central Uganda 

      Wananda, Irene; Byansi, Peter Kayiira; Govule, Philip; Katongole, Simon Peter; Wampande, Lillian Nantume; Anguyo, Robert DDM Onzima (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 ...

    • Communities’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare in Public Health Facilities of Nakasongola District, Uganda 

      Dakoye, Damali; Anguyo, Robert Onzima; Govule, Philip; Katongole, Simon Peter; Ayiko, Rogers; Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet (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 ...

    • Amnesty and Prosecution of International Humanitarian Law Violations in Uganda: 

      Kabiito, Bendicto (Journal of Development Studies, 2015)
      In continued human search for peace and justice, which are pertinent to development, post-war societies are confronted with a dilemma of either letting go of the past through legalized amnesty or embarking on comprehensive ...

    • Medical Litigation in Hospitals in Kampala, Uganda 

      Gakumba, Eva Kadimba; Katongole, Simon Peter; Bikaitwoha, Everd Maniple (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 ...

    • Embracing values beyond the Financial Value: 

      Kabiito, Bendicto (2015-10)
      The dominant discourse upholds an idea that accumulated financial capital (money) can reliably address climate change challenges. What is often neglected is the fact that since the current trends of climate change is ...

    • Survival Fate’ or ‘Livelihood Option’? : 

      Kabiito, Bendicto (2016-03)
      Uganda boasts of her natural resource wealth by day, and groans over its mismanagement by nightfall! Expectation and suspicion paradoxically typify the state of affairs of Uganda’s natural resource stock; flora, fauna and ...

    • The African Centre of Agro-Ecology and Livelihood Systems (ACALISE): 

      Mwine, Julius (The World Bank, 2016-10-17)
      Africa in general and East Africa in particular is faced with problems of low production and productivity, little or no value addition to the few products but also lack of ethical values in management of business. These ...

    • Making the transition to workload-based staffing: 

      Namaganda, Grace; Oketcho, Vincent; Bakaitwoha, Everd Maniple; Viadro, Claire (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 ...

    • Ethics, Human Rights and Healthcare in Uganda 

      Luswata, Albert (2015)
      This paper attempts to show the linkage between Ethics, Human Rights and Healthcare. In the first place, it argues that healthcare needs ethics to guide it and make it humane; otherwise it is used against the person. This ...

    • Memory and Forgiveness: 

      Angucia, Margaret (2016-03)
      Memories of conflict experiences can be problematic in building social relationships between victims and perpetrators in post conflict communities. The challenge of negative memories to constrain living together in the ...

    • Assessment of Somali refugees’ wellbeing: The centrality of the human needs 

      Balyejjusa, Moses Senkosi (2015-09)
      There is a substantial body of literature on psychological wellbeing of refugees in psychology, especially in relation to refugee acculturation. However, very little research has been carried out on refugee wellbeing by ...

    • Excluded youth and skills training in Uganda. 

      Tukundane, Cuthbert (2015-02)
      This paper shares insights into how the youth population in Uganda that is excluded from education can best be helped to develop skills necessary for the labour market and for other livelihood opportunities, such as ...

    • Learning for sustainable futures: 

      Tukundane, Cuthbert (2015-09)
      With 70% of Uganda’s population of 34.9 million below the age of 30 and 56% below 18 years, the country has one of the youngest populations in the world. The youth bulge that the country is experiencing demands for educational ...

    • Long-term socio-economic development through harnessing the demographic dividend:. 

      Tukundane, Cuthbert (2015)
      In the last thirty years, Sub Saharan Africa has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. The region now has the youngest population in the world with some 600 million people under the age of 25. This young and ...

    • Quality and Use of Routine Healthcare Data in Selected Districts of Eastern Province of Rwanda 

      Karengera, Innocent; Anguyo, Robert. DDM Onzima; Katongole, Simon Peter; Govule, Philip (International Journal of Public Health Research, 2016-05-03)
      Strengthening of Health Management Information System (HMIS) is becoming an unavoidable task for most health systems in the World. As part of the strengthening (of HMIS), it is imperative that stakeholders undertake periodic ...

    • Household energy use in Uganda: 

      Drazu, Candia; Olweny, Mark R. O.; Kazoora, Goodman (The Architectural Science Association and The University of Melbourne, 2015)
      This paper details patterns of energy consumption for domestic buildings in urban areas of Uganda. The paper shows the range of energy sources employed by households, the level of consumption of energy, as well as common ...

    • The Quality and Use of Maternal Health Care in Oyam District, Uganda: A baseline survey for an intervention 

      Birungi, Sixtus; Odaga, John; Santini, Stefano (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 ...

    • Teaching reading and writing in local language using the child-centred pedagogy in Uganda 

      Akello, Dora, Lucy; Namusisi, Speranza (Taylor & Francis, 2015-11-04)
      Uganda introduced the use of mother tongue as medium of instruction in primary schools in 2007. This was meant to promote interaction and participation in the learning process and improve children's proficiency in reading ...

    • Acculturation and wellbeing of refugees: a study of Somalis in Kampala-Uganda 

      Balyejjusa, Senkosi Moses (University of Melbourne, 2015)
      Although there is substantial research on refugee acculturation in developed and industrialised countries, there is limited research on the same within Africa in general and Uganda in particular. This study fills this gap ...

    • Interaction of the predatory ant Pheidole megacephala (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with the polyphagus pest Xylosandrus compactus (Coleoptera: Curculionidea) 

      Bwogi, Godfrey (Elsevier, 2017-01)
      We evaluated the potential of using Pheidole megacephala as a biological control agent against the coffee twig borer Xylosandrus compactus (Eichhoff), an economically important pest of Robusta coffee in Uganda. Upon observing ...