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Journal articles on the topic "Public health, Challenges, Uganda"

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Bosco Kakooza, John, Immaculate Tusiime, Hojops Odoch, and Vincent Bagire. "Management Practices and Performance of Public hospitals in Uganda." International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration 1, no. 7 (2015): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.17.1002.

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The Daily Monitor publications ran serialized articles showing the awful state of government hospitals across the country. While the Ministry of Health insists that the problem is not as bad as it is depicted, the level of service delivery in public hospitals has come under serious public scrutiny espousing the cause for concern about policy, practice and research. There should be glaring gaps in management practices as a possible explanation. In this study, we investigated impact of management decision making, structure, processes, communication and management style on hospital performance. The study has emphasized good management as the determinant of better performance of hospitals in the Ugandan context. Findings of this study challenges policy makers to strengthen management processes in addition to mobilizing financial, human and capital resources for hospitals. The study extends the debate on application of management theory with practice in the health sector in the Ugandan context.
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Mwesigwa, Catherine Lutalo, Brenda Akinyi Okumu, Charity Kirabo-Nagemi, Emma Ejuu, Estie Kruger, and Marc Tennant. "Mapping the geographic availability of public dental services in Uganda relative to ruralization and poverty of the population." Journal of Global Oral Health 2 (February 29, 2020): 86–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/jgoh_66_2019.

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Objectives: Uganda is a low-income country faced with a number of challenges in health service delivery, including oral health services. Despite reports of an increased prevalence of oral diseases, they are afforded less priority, amidst competing priorities of infectious and other non-communicable diseases. Oral health-care services are offered free-of-charge in public health facilities. The majority of the Ugandan population live in rural areas. This would imply that public dental services should be more widely distributed in rural areas to meet the needs of the majority population. This study, therefore, aimed to determine the geographic distribution of public dental services relative to poverty and ruralization of the Ugandan population. Materials and Methods: All 112 districts in Uganda were to be surveyed for this study using an ecological design that incorporated the Ugandan population with socio-demographics obtained from the latest Uganda National Housing and Population Census and poverty data from the national Poverty Status Report 2014. The data from the districts were on the availability of public dental services and the physical location of these dental facilities. Overall, 182 public facilities were included in the study. The geographic location of public dental clinics was established using open-data sources. The data on ruralization were aggregated at the district level and that on poverty at the subregion level. Spatial analysis was done using geographic information science software, Quantum Geographic Information System. Results: The total Ugandan population was 34 million. Overall, 19.7% of the population was poor with the highest proportion located in the North and East of Uganda. Urban-rural characteristics varied across the country. Information on the 182 public dental clinics was collected from 97 of the 112 Ugandan districts. Among the 97 districts, 15% had no public clinic and were located in the poorest Ugandan regions. Among the 40 districts containing over 90% of the rural population, 20% had none, and 55% only had one dental clinic. In general, service availability reduced as the proportion of the rural and poor population increased. Conclusion: The spatial analysis presents an avenue to inform and guide the decision making and planning process by identifying geographic areas with access gaps relative to population socio-demographic characteristics. This study revealed that public dental services were least available for the poorest and rural populations, and yet they are already vulnerable to other access barriers. It is recommended that efforts should be made by health planners and policymakers to avert the health inequalities presented by inequitable access.
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Klabbers, Robin E., Timothy R. Muwonge, Emmanuel Ayikobua, Diego Izizinga, Ingrid V. Bassett, Andrew Kambugu, Alexander C. Tsai, Miranda Ravicz, Gonnie Klabbers, and Kelli N. O’Laughlin. "Health Worker Perspectives on Barriers and Facilitators of Assisted Partner Notification for HIV for Refugees and Ugandan Nationals: A Mixed Methods Study in West Nile Uganda." AIDS and Behavior 25, no. 10 (April 21, 2021): 3206–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03265-1.

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AbstractAssisted partner notification (APN) is recommended by the World Health Organization to notify sexual partners of HIV exposure. Since 2018, APN has been offered in Uganda to Ugandan nationals and refugees. Distinct challenges faced by individuals in refugee settlements may influence APN utilization and effectiveness. To explore APN barriers and facilitators, we extracted index client and sexual partner data from APN registers at 11 health centers providing care to refugees and Ugandan nationals in West Nile Uganda and conducted qualitative interviews with health workers (N = 32). Since APN started, 882 index clients participated in APN identifying 1126 sexual partners. Following notification, 95% (1025/1126) of partners tested for HIV; 22% (230/1025) were diagnosed with HIV with 14% (139/1025) of tested partners newly diagnosed. Fear of stigma and disclosure-related violence limit APN utilization and effectiveness. Prospective research involving index clients and sexual partners is needed to facilitate safe APN optimization in refugee settlements.
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Jeffer, Siya Balaam, Issmat I. Kassem, Samer A. Kharroubi, and Gumataw Kifle Abebe. "Analysis of Food Safety Management Systems in the Beef Meat Processing and Distribution Chain in Uganda." Foods 10, no. 10 (September 22, 2021): 2244. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10102244.

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Meat production is an essential component in food security and the economy in Uganda. However, food safety concerns pose a challenge to public health in Uganda and impede access to regional and global markets. Here, food safety management (FSM) practices in the Ugandan beef supply chain were evaluated. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in major slaughterhouses (n = 3), butcher shops (n = 184), and supermarkets (n = 25) in Uganda’s capital, Kampala. The three slaughterhouses had low scores in core control and assurance activities of FSM. Packaging interventions were weak in all the slaughterhouses, while only one slaughterhouse had a functional cooling facility. Supermarkets implemented better hygienic and preventative practices in comparison to butcher shops. However, both sourced from slaughterhouses that had low-to-poor hygiene practices, which weakened the efforts implemented in the supermarkets. Furthermore, most butcher shops did not offer training to meat handlers on HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point)-based practices. The low food safety performance in the supply chain was primarily attributed to poor sanitation, hygiene, and handling practices. Therefore, HACCP-based training and robust preventive, intervention, and monitoring systems are needed in the Ugandan beef supply chain to benefit public health and increase competitiveness.
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Atusingwize, Edwinah, Geofrey Musinguzi, Rawlance Ndejjo, Esther Buregyeya, Barbara Kayongo, Ruth Mubeezi, Richard K. Mugambe, et al. "Occupational safety and health regulations and implementation challenges in Uganda." Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health 74, no. 1-2 (September 17, 2018): 58–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19338244.2018.1492895.

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Feldmeier, Hermann, Osuke Komazawa, and Kazuhiko Moji. "Nodding Syndrome in Uganda: Field Observations, Challenges and Research Agenda." Tropical Medicine and Health 42, no. 2SUPPLEMENT (2014): S109—S114. http://dx.doi.org/10.2149/tmh.2014-s15.

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Batwala, Vincent, Pascal Magnussen, and Fred Nuwaha. "Challenges to implementation of artemisinin combination therapy policy in Uganda." International Health 2, no. 4 (December 2010): 262–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inhe.2010.07.002.

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Appiah, Bernard, Anubhuti Poudyal, David A. Anum, George Appiah, Andrew Christopher Wesuta, Kofi Akodwaa-Boadi, Ochieng’ Ogodo, Esther Nakkazi, Edgar M. Mulogo, and Samuel Nii Odai. "Challenges and facilitators of public engagement with water, sanitation, hygiene and other environmental health issues in Ghana and Uganda: perspectives of scientists, journalists and the public." Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 10, no. 1 (December 12, 2019): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2019.019.

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Abstract Despite many water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and other environmental health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about interactions involving scientists, journalists and the public to aid public understanding of the relationship between WASH and health. Using purposive sampling, we conducted key informant interviews and focus group discussions with scientists, journalists and members of the public in Ghana and Uganda to identify issues associated with the promotion of public engagement with WASH and other environmental health issues. An inductive thematic analysis was used to explore the evidence, challenges and opportunities of public engagement. The effectiveness of public engagement was constrained by poor interactions between scientists and journalists and limited understanding among the public on WASH and other environmental health issues. Challenges identified included inadequate scientists–journalists collaborations, scientists' lack of time, pressure from media organizations and concerns about journalists' inadequate capacity to communicate environmental issues due to lack of training. Possible solutions included increased interactions, science communication training and using public information officers as knowledge brokers between scientists and journalists to boost public engagement with WASH and other environmental health issues. Our study contributes to the literature on the need to actively engage the public with WASH and other environmental health concerns.
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Gottschalk, Janet. "Womenʼs challenges: A report on the Vllth International Women and Health Meeting, Kampala, Uganda." Family & Community Health 17, no. 2 (July 1994): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00003727-199407000-00008.

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Mukuru, Moses, Suzanne N. Kiwanuka, Linda Gibson, and Freddie Ssengooba. "Challenges in implementing emergency obstetric care (EmOC) policies: perspectives and behaviours of frontline health workers in Uganda." Health Policy and Planning 36, no. 3 (January 30, 2021): 260–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czab001.

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Abstract Uganda is among the sub-Saharan African Countries which continue to experience high preventable maternal mortality due to obstetric emergencies. Several Emergency Obstetric Care (EmOC) policies rolled out have never achieved their intended targets to date. To explore why upstream policy expectations were not achieved at the frontline during the MDG period, we examined the implementation of EmOC policies in Uganda by; exploring the barriers frontline implementers of EmOC policies faced, their coping behaviours and the consequences for maternal health. We conducted a retrospective exploratory qualitative study between March and June 2019 in Luwero, Iganga and Masindi districts selected based on differences in maternal mortality. Data were collected using 8 in-depth interviews with doctors and 17 midwives who provided EmOC services in Uganda’s public health facilities during the MDG period. We reviewed two national maternal health policy documents and interviewed two Ministry of Health Officials on referral by participants. Data analysis was guided by the theory of Street-Level Bureaucracy (SLB). Implementation of EmOC was affected by the incompatibility of policies with implementation systems. Street-level bureaucrats were expected to offer to their continuously increasing clients, sometimes presenting late, ideal EmOC services using an incomplete and unreliable package of inputs, supplies, inadequate workforce size and skills mix. To continue performing their duties and prevent services from total collapse, frontline implementers’ coping behaviours oftentimes involved improvization leading to delivery of incomplete and inconsistent EmOC service packages. This resulted in unresponsive EmOC services with mothers receiving inadequate interventions sometimes after major delays across different levels of care. We suggest that SLB theory can be enriched by reflecting on the consequences of the coping behaviours of street-level bureaucrats. Future reforms should align policies to implementation contexts and resources for optimal results.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Public health, Challenges, Uganda"

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Balikowa, David Ouma. "The human rights-based approach to public health: an inquiry into the challenges of its adoption in Uganda." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9712_1365583578.

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Knowledge about the challenges in adopting the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) to public health is still limited, necessitating an exploration into the subject. The purpose of this study is to contribute to strengthening the implementation of the HRBA to public health in Uganda. The aim was to explore challenges to the implementation of this approach The objectives of this study were to examine whether there is a shared understanding and agreement among stakeholders about the meaning and potential value of the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) to public health, and to describe stakeholders&lsquo
perceptions on the challenges to the adoption and implementation of the HRBA to public health.

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Kamoga, Edward Nelson B. "Monitoring resource allocation at the district level in Uganda: implications and challenges." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8632.

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Like most developing countries, Uganda works on a very tight health budget and the government has to ensure strict principles of efficiency and equity in the allocation and use of the minimal resources. One of the strategies in the process of improving delivery of public services has been to decentralise them. The district local government is responsible for the planning process, data management, resource allocation and co-ordination with the central government. However the capacity of the districts to stick to the principles of efficiency and equity is not a given. In Uganda, the health system has been further devolved with the creation of health sub- districts. Because there are no clear guidelines from both local and central governments on how to ensure equity in resource allocation at the district level there have been arguments that resources from the centre to the district are not necessarily equitably allocated at the sub- district. The principle of equity that would seem of relevance in this case is that of providing resources to those in most need (most deprived) given the minimal resources available. This study was done to assess how health resources are allocated between sub-districts relative to the level of need/deprivation in each sub district and in the process suggest a resource allocation formula for the district. Using mainly data from a rapid household hold survey and simple additive averaging to aggregate variables to create a deprivation index, the study showed that three sub-districts in Luwero district differed in the level of deprivation and the most deprived sub-district was actually under-resourced. The study therefore showed that there is room for using simple indices in a resource allocation formula at the district level so that budgets in the future are allocated to the most deprived areas hence maintaining the central government goal of ensuring equity in the use and allocation of minimal resources that are usually available.
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Hernandez, Arielle G. "Effective strategies used to describe and address the burden of sickle cell disease in the Republic of Uganda: The Uganda Sickle Surveillance Study." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459438302.

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Saran, Indrani. "Health Behaviors in the Context of Malaria Treatment in Uganda." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:27201735.

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Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, particularly among young children in Sub-Saharan Africa. There exists a very effective treatment for malaria, a class of drugs known as artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs). However, it is estimated that only 12-22% of children with malaria were treated with an ACT in 2015 and, even when people take ACTs, they do not always complete the full treatment course. This dissertation examines malaria treatment behaviors in Central and Eastern Uganda. The first two chapters of this dissertation use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate interventions designed to increase patient adherence to the ACT treatment regimen. We find that 35% of patients who purchase subsidized ACTs from local drug shops in central Uganda do not complete the full 3-day treatment course. In the first chapter, we show that patients who felt better mid-way through treatment were more likely to stop taking the medication than those who were still unwell. However, short messages promoting adherence, delivered via stickers affixed to the standard ACT package, increased adherence rates by approximately 9%. The second chapter examines the impact of diagnostic testing for malaria on adherence to the malaria treatment regimen. Since most people do not receive a confirmed diagnosis of malaria before beginning treatment, uncertainty about the true cause of illness may be a factor in nonadherence. We find that patients who tested positive for malaria on a rapid diagnostic test did not have higher odds of adherence. However, we present some evidence that patients who tested positive were more likely to consume a few additional pills of the drug. The third chapter of this dissertation shows that the probability that a febrile patient has malaria declines substantially with the age of the patient and increases with the local village prevalence rate. We find, however, that ACT treatment rates are invariant to age and local prevalence, and beliefs about whether an illness is malaria also do not vary with age or prevalence. This work suggests that mis-perceptions of malaria risk may be contributing to the under-treatment of malaria in young children.
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Kuhanen, Jan. "Poverty, health, and reproduction in early colonial Uganda /." Joensuu : Joensuun yliopisto/Faculty of Humanities, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0601/2005419946.html.

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Beatty, Kate, and Michael Meit. "Opportunities and Challenges Facing Rural Public Health Agencies." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6835.

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Mayanja, Rehema. "Decentralized health care services delivery in selected districts in Uganda." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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Decentralization of health services in Uganda, driven by the structural adjustment programme of the World Bank, was embraced by government as a means to change the health institutional structure and process delivery of health services in the country. Arising from the decentralization process, the transfer of power concerning functions from the top administrative hierachy in health service provision to lower levels, constitutes a major shift in management, philosophy, infrastructure development, communication as well as other functional roles by actors at various levels of health care. This study focused its investigation on ways and levels to which the process of decentralization of health service delivery has attained efficient and effective provision of health services. The study also examined the extent to which the shift of health service provision has influenced the role of local jurisdictions and communities. Challenges faced by local government leaders in planning and raising funds in response to decentralized health serdelivery were examined.
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Pearson, Georgina. "Global health, local realities : neglected diseases in northwestern Uganda." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3303/.

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This thesis explores the everyday realities of neglected diseases among people living and working along the River Nile in Moyo and Adjumani Districts, northwestern Uganda. It is based on ethnographic-epidemiological fieldwork carried out over sixteen months during 2013 and 2014. The fieldwork included participant-observation, in-depth interviews and a parasitological survey with structured questionnaire. This thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach in studying global health, contributing to literature at the intersection between medicine and anthropology. The neglected tropical diseases are a group of diverse diseases framed in global health around common socio-economic-political features, persisting in poverty. They affect neglected populations, neglected by public health policy. Current approaches to their management are largely a collection of technical, diseasefocused programmes that disregard the politics of poverty. Contemporary debates surround the side-lining of social science literature, and the evidence behind the biomedically focussed disease control programmes. Fisherfolk are said to be vulnerable to a number of these diseases. Diseases such as intestinal schistosomiasis (one of the neglected tropical diseases) persist in fishing areas despite a global public health programme. However, as this study demonstrates, in northwestern Uganda levels of schistosomiasis infection appear to have reduced. This study situates the success of the global health control programme within the local biosocial context. Furthermore, it shows that while one neglected tropical disease is controlled, other diseases persist and emerge. These other diseases explored in this research were Buruli ulcer and Hepatitis B, diseases that challenged the global health concept of neglected tropical diseases. This thesis contributes methodologically to the growing interdisciplinary field of global health. It provides empirically-based biosocial evidence of the local realities of neglected diseases. In taking this approach, it argues that this concept is misleading. While it has illuminated particular problems in global health, the restrictive gaze disregards local public health concerns.
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Karlsen, Klaus. "Threatened child health through lack of immunization, identification of risk groups in Uganda." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq21994.pdf.

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Nahamya, David. "Assessment of essential drug management in the public health facilities in Uganda." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9460.

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The main aim of the study is to evaluate the management of essential drugs in thepublic health facilities in Uganda. This is a cross-sectional study carried out in the districts of Kampala and Mbale employing both qualitative and quantitative methods. Standard outcome indicators as described in the WHO Operational Package for Monitoring and Assessing the Pharmaceutical Situation in Countries are adapted and used in this study.
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Books on the topic "Public health, Challenges, Uganda"

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Hasan, K. Zaki. Public health challenges in Pakistan. Karachi: SAMA, 2006.

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Public Health Sciences Working Group. Public health sciences: Challenges and opportunities. London: Wellcome Trust, 2004.

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Islam, MD Nazrul, ed. Public Health Challenges in Contemporary China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47753-3.

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Hunt, Jennifer. Bribery in health care in peru and uganda. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.

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Hunt, Jennifer. Bribery in health care in Peru and Uganda. Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007.

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Nakanyike, Musisi, ed. Growing up by accident: Challenges in handling adolescents in Uganda schools. Kampala: Makerere University, 2007.

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Rocan, Claude. Challenges in public health governance: The Canadian experience. Ottawa: Invenire Books, 2012.

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Barghouthi, Mustafa. Health in Palestine: Potential and challenges. Jerusalem: Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), 1997.

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Kuhanen, Jan. Poverty, health, and reproduction in early colonial Uganda. Joensuu: Joensuun yliopisto/Faculty of Humanities, 2005.

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Raikes, Alanagh. Social aspects of oral health in the context of primary health care in Uganda. Copenhagen: Institute for Social Medicine, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "Public health, Challenges, Uganda"

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Mugisha, James. "Sociocultural Aspects of Health Promotion in Palliative Care in Uganda." In Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research, 303–12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63135-2_21.

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AbstractDespite its vital importance, health promotion has not occupied its due place in public health in Uganda. The country is engulfed into a rising wave of both communicable and non-communicable conditions. This rising burden of both communicable and non-communicable conditions turns health promotion and palliative care essential health care packages; though there is little to show that these two important programs are getting vital support at policy and service delivery levels. A new theoretical framework that is anchored into sociocultural issues is essential in guiding the design and delivery of both health promotion and palliative care in Uganda. The salutogenic theory puts socio-cultural issues at the centre of developing health promotion and palliative care and, seems to solve this dilemma. In this chapter, illustrations from indigenous communities in Uganda are employed to demonstrate the challenges to the health promotion and palliative care agenda in the country and how they can be addressed. Uganda Ministry of Health should develop robust structures within public health for development of health promotion and palliative care in the country. Research should be conducted on the effectiveness of the current strategies on health promotion and palliative care and their cultural sensitivity and appropriateness. Given the limited resources available for development of health care in Uganda, as an overall strategy, health promotion and palliative care should be anchored in public health and its (public health) resources.
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Shah, Anil C., Ben Osuga, and IDS Workshop. "10. Challenges in Influencing Public Policy: an NGO perspective; Towards Community-sensitive Policy: influencing the Uganda National Health Plan; The Research Process: sustaining quality and maximizing impact." In Whose Voice?, 163–78. Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom: Practical Action Publishing, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/9781780446431.010.

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Fairman, David, Diana Chigas, Elizabeth McClintock, and Nick Drager. "Meeting Implementation Challenges." In SpringerBriefs in Public Health, 81–93. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2780-9_5.

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Eswarappa, Veda, and Sujata K. Bhatia. "Implications, Challenges, and Recommendations." In SpringerBriefs in Public Health, 83–90. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5386-4_4.

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Rieder, Travis N. "Challenges to Procreative Obligation." In SpringerBriefs in Public Health, 43–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33871-2_4.

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Dawson, Sandra. "Conclusion: Accepting Burdens, Meeting Challenges and Creating Opportunities." In Future Public Health, 292–301. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230582545_16.

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Li, Liming, Xiaosong Li, and Bo Wang. "Public Health Challenges in China." In Introduction to Public Health in China, 63–68. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6545-4_4.

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Johnson, Sandy A. "Public Private Partnerships and Health." In Challenges in Health and Development, 175–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53204-2_6.

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Saich, Tony. "Challenges in the Health System." In Providing Public Goods in Transitional China, 71–101. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230615434_4.

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Chalkidou, Kalipso, Anthony J. Culyer, Bhash Naidoo, and Peter Littlejohns. "The Challenges of Developing Cost-Effective Public Health Guidance: A NICE Perspective." In Future Public Health, 276–91. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230582545_15.

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Conference papers on the topic "Public health, Challenges, Uganda"

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Kiberu, Vincent Micheal, and Vincent Micheal Kiberu. "E-Health Readiness Assessment in Uganda: Integration of Telemedicine Services into Public Healthcare System." In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ichi.2016.43.

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Ke, Wei, and Zhiming Liu. "Software Engineering in Public Health: Opportunities and Challenges." In 2012 International Conference on Computer Distributed Control and Intelligent Environmental Monitoring (CDCIEM). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cdciem.2012.155.

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Bowen, Clifford L. "Emergency Drinking Water Supply Challenges for Public Health." In World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41114(371)387.

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Siegel, Frederic R. "POPULATION GROWTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS: CHALLENGES TO PUBLIC HEALTH." In GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018am-316267.

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Taylor, Sue, and Emmanuel Alusani Maphorogo. "104: MINING, ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AND PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGES IN JOHANNESBURG." In Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health 2015. British Medical Journal Publishing Group, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-forum2015abstracts.104.

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Laarmann, Heli, Clayton Hamilton, Arnold Bosman, Rodolphe Thiebaut, Umair A. Shah, Caroline Wood, and Patty Kostkova. "The Challenges of Implementing Healthcare Technology and Innovation Across Europe and Beyond." In DPH2019: 9th International Digital Public Health Conference (2019). New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3357729.3365106.

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Mubangizi, Vincent. "LACK OF FAMILY PLANNING IS AN AVOIDABLE CAUSE OF MATERNAL AND CHILD DEATH IN UGANDA." In EPHP 2016, Bangalore, 8–9 July 2016, Third national conference on bringing Evidence into Public Health Policy Equitable India: All for Health and Wellbeing. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-ephpabstracts.53.

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McKinney, Matthew. "Keynote Address—Rethinking Public Participation: The Case of Public Land Management." In 2016: Confronting the challenges of public participation in environmental, planning and health decision-making. Iowa State University, Digital Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/sciencecommunication-180809-1.

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Aghniya, Rofana, Bhisma Murti, Didik Gunawan Tamtomo, and Hanung Prasetya. "The Effect of Depression Comorbidity on the Quality of Life of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Meta-Analysis." In The 7th International Conference on Public Health 2020. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/the7thicph.01.56.

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Background: The prevalence of depression is two to three times higher in diabetic patients, while most cases remain undiagnosed. The quality of life is substantially and adversely affected by depression. This study aimed to estimate the effect of depression comorbidity on patients’ quality of life with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Subjects and Method: This was a meta-analysis and systematic review. The study was conducted by collecting published articles from PubMed, ProQuest, Science Direct, Scopus, Spinger Link, Clinical Key, and Google Scholar databases. Keywords used “comorbidity depression and DM”, “depression and quality of life and DM and cross sectional study”, “depression and quality of life and DM and adjusted odd ratio”, “depression or diabetes”, “depression or quality of life or DM or adjusted odd ratio”. The study criteria were full text, using cross-sectional study design, and reporting adjusted Odds Ratio (aOR). The selected articles were analyzed using Revman 5.3 with fixed effect models. Results: 8 studies from Uganda, Iran, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Nigeria, Brazil, and Nepal, were selected for this study. Current study reported that type 2 DM patients with depression had lower quality of life than those without depression (aOR= 2.72; 95% CI= 0.73 to 10.07; p<0.0001) Conclusion: Type 2 DM patient with depression has lower quality of life than those without depression. Keywords: depression, quality of life, diabetes mellitus Correspondence: Rofana Aghniya. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret. Jl. Ir. Sutami 36A, Surakarta 57126, Central Java. Email: rofanaaa@gmail.com. Mobile: +685523528340.
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Nur, Aqsha Azhary, and Adang Bachtiar. "Concept and Challenges in the Development of the National Board of Mental Health." In The 5th International Conference on Public Health 2019. Masters Program in Public Health, Universitas Sebelas Maret, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.26911/theicph.2019.04.35.

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Reports on the topic "Public health, Challenges, Uganda"

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Cachalia, Firoz, and Jonathan Klaaren. A South African Public Law Perspective on Digitalisation in the Health Sector. Digital Pathways at Oxford, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35489/bsg-dp-wp_2021/05.

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We explored some of the questions posed by digitalisation in an accompanying working paper focused on constitutional theory: Digitalisation, the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’ and the Constitutional Law of Privacy in South Africa. In that paper, we asked what legal resources are available in the South African legal system to respond to the risk and benefits posed by digitalisation. We argued that this question would be best answered by developing what we have termed a 'South African public law perspective'. In our view, while any particular legal system may often lag behind, the law constitutes an adaptive resource that can and should respond to disruptive technological change by re-examining existing concepts and creating new, more adequate conceptions. Our public law perspective reframes privacy law as both a private and a public good essential to the functioning of a constitutional democracy in the era of digitalisation. In this working paper, we take the analysis one practical step further: we use our public law perspective on digitalisation in the South African health sector. We do so because this sector is significant in its own right – public health is necessary for a healthy society – and also to further explore how and to what extent the South African constitutional framework provides resources at least roughly adequate for the challenges posed by the current 'digitalisation plus' era. The theoretical perspective we have developed is certainly relevant to digitalisation’s impact in the health sector. The social, economic and political progress that took place in the 20th century was strongly correlated with technological change of the first three industrial revolutions. The technological innovations associated with what many are terming ‘the fourth industrial revolution’ are also of undoubted utility in the form of new possibilities for enhanced productivity, business formation and wealth creation, as well as the enhanced efficacy of public action to address basic needs such as education and public health.
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Wiecha, Jean L., and Mary K. Muth. Agreements Between Public Health Organizations and Food and Beverage Companies: Approaches to Improving Evaluation. RTI Press, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2021.op.0067.2101.

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Efforts in the United States and abroad to address the chronic disease epidemic have led to the emergence of voluntary industry agreements as a substitute for regulatory approaches to improve the healthfulness of foods and beverages. Because of the lack of access to data and limited budgets, evaluations of these agreements have often been limited to process evaluation with less focus on outcomes and impact. Increasing scientific scope and rigor in evaluating voluntary food and beverage industry agreements would improve potential public health benefits and understanding of the effects of these agreements. We describe how evaluators can provide formative, process, and outcome assessment and discuss challenges and opportunities for impact assessment. We explain how logic models, industry profiles, quasi-experimental designs, mixed-methods approaches, and third-party data can improve the effectiveness of agreement design and evaluation. These methods could result in more comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of voluntary industry agreements, thus providing data to bolster the public health impacts of future agreements. However, improved access to data and larger evaluation budgets will be needed to support improvements in evaluation.
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Cedergren, Elin, Diana Huynh, Michael Kull, John Moodie, Hjördís Rut Sigurjónsdóttir, and Mari Wøien Meijer. Public service delivery in the Nordic Region: An exercise in collaborative governance. Nordregio, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/r2021:4.1403-2503.

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Nordic welfare states are world renowned for providing high quality public services. Nordic municipal and regional authorities, in particular, play a central role in the delivery of key public services in areas, such as, health, education, and social care. However, in recent years, public authorities have faced several challenges which have reduced capacity and resources, including long periods of austerity following the 2008 financial crash, rapid demographic changes caused by an ageing population, and the COVID-19 health crisis. In response to these challenges many public authorities have looked to inter-regional, inter-municipal and cross-border collaborations to improve the quality and effectiveness of public service delivery (OECD 2017; ESPON 2019). Indeed, collaborative public service delivery is becoming increasingly prominent in the Nordic Region due to a highly decentralized systems of governance (Nordregio 20015; Eythorsson 2018).
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Latzman, Natasha E., Cecilia Casanueva, and Melissa Dolan. Defining and understanding the Scope of Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges and Opportunities. RTI Press, November 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2017.op.0044.1711.

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The enormous individual, familial, and societal burden of child sexual abuse has underscored the need to address the problem from a public health framework. Much work remains, however, at the first step of this framework — defining and understanding the scope of the problem, or establishing incidence and prevalence estimates. In this occasional paper, we provide an overview of the ways researchers have defined and estimated the scope of child sexual abuse, focusing on agency tabulations and large-scale surveys conducted over the last several decades. More precise estimates of the number of children affected by child sexual abuse would improve the ability of the public health, child welfare, pediatrics, and other communities to prevent and respond to the problem. We recommend using a comprehensive surveillance system to assess and track the scope of child sexual abuse. This system should be grounded by common definitional elements and draw from multiple indicators and sources to estimate the prevalence of a range of sexually abusive experiences.
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Hassell, James M., Salome A. Bukachi, Dishon M. Muloi, Emi Takahashi, and Lydia Franklinos. The Natural Environment and Health in Africa. World Wildlife Fund and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/10088/111281.

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Much of recent human development has come at the expense of Nature - undermining ecosystems, fragmenting habitats, reducing biodiversity, and increasing our exposure and vulnerability to emerging diseases. For example, as we push deeper into tropical forests, and convert more land to agriculture and human settlements, the rate at which people encounter new pathogens that may trigger the next public health, social and economic crisis, is likely to increase. Expanding and strengthening our understanding of the links between nature and human health is especially important in Africa, where nature brings economic prosperity and wellbeing to more than a billion people. Pandemics such as COVID are just one of a growing number of health challenges that humanity is facing as a result of our one-sided and frequently destructive relationship with nature. This report aims to inform professionals and decision-makers on how health outcomes emerge from human interactions with the natural world and identify how efforts to preserve the natural environment and sustainably manage natural resources could have an impact on human and animal health. While the report focuses on the African continent, it will also be of relevance to other areas of the world facing similar environmental pressures.
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Presseau, Justin, Laura Desveaux, Upton Allen, Trevor Arnason, Judy L. Buchan, Kimberly M. Corace, Vinita Dubey, et al. Behavioural Science Principles for Supporting COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence and Uptake Among Ontario Health Care Workers. Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47326/ocsat.2021.02.12.1.0.

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Health Care Workers (HCWs) are the backbone of Ontario’s COVID-19 pandemic response and are a key vaccination priority group. About 80% of Ontario HCWs intend to receive COVID-19 vaccine.1 Challenges include the logistics of delivering the vaccine to this mobile and diverse group and improving vaccine confidence in the remaining 20%. These challenges can be overcome by allaying safety concerns and highlighting personal benefits; tailoring messages to factors associated with lower intention (e.g. age, gender, ethnicity and work setting); employing trusted leaders to set the tone and peers to build social norms; and leveraging public health organizations and health institutions as existing channels of influence.
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Jigjidsuren, Altantuya, Bayar Oyun, and Najibullah Habib. Supporting Primary Health Care in Mongolia: Experiences, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions. Asian Development Bank, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps210020-2.

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ince the early 1990s, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has broadly supported health sector reforms in Mongolia. This paper describes primary health care (PHC) in Mongolia and ADB support in its reform. It highlights results achieved and the lessons drawn that could be useful for future programs in Mongolia and other countries. PHC reform in Mongolia aimed at facilitating a shift from hospital-based curative services toward preventive approaches. It included introducing new management models based on public–private partnerships, increasing the range of services, applying more effective financing methods, building human resources, and creating better infrastructure. The paper outlines remaining challenges and future directions for ADB support to PHC reform in the country.
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Yeates, Elissa, Kayla Cotterman, and Angela Rhodes. Hydrologic impacts on human health : El Niño Southern Oscillation and cholera. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/39483.

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A non-stationary climate imposes considerable challenges regarding potential public health concerns. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle, which occurs every 2 to 7 years, correlates positively with occurrences of the waterborne disease cholera. The warm sea surface temperatures and extreme weather associated with ENSO create optimal conditions for breeding the Vibrio cholerae pathogen and for human exposure to the pathogenic waters. This work explored the impacts of ENSO on cholera occurrence rates over the past 50 years by examining annual rates of suspected cholera cases per country in relation to ENSO Index values. This study provides a relationship indicating when hydrologic conditions are optimal for cholera growth, and presents a statistical approach to answer three questions: Are cholera outbreaks more likely to occur in an El Niño year? What other factors impact cholera outbreaks? How will the future climate impact cholera incidence rates as it relates to conditions found in ENSO? Cholera outbreaks from the 1960s to the present are examined focusing on regions of Central and South America, and southern Asia. By examining the predictive relationship between climate variability and cholera, we can draw conclusions about future vulnerability to cholera and other waterborne pathogenic diseases.
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Millington, Kerry A. Protecting and Promoting Systems for Essential Health Services During Rollout of COVID-19 Tools. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.084.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous negative impact on economies of most countries around the world. COVID-19 has disrupted the ability of health systems to deliver on essential health services and has also exposed pre-existing vulnerabilities and inequities in public health systems. According to a key informant survey conducted by WHO, over one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there still exist substantial disruptions to essential health services. This rapid review examines evidence on successful interventions that could enable adaptive approaches to help manage and respond future pandemics and mitigate the risk of collapse of the public health systems. Countries must use the opportunity provided by the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines to strengthen health services and health systems and find long-lasting solutions for similar future challenges. The review notes that there still exist gaps in preparedness and response to the Covid-19 pandemic. New variants of concern threaten the effectiveness of existing COVID-19 vaccines, vaccine hesitancy slowing rollout, including in Africa, and interrupted and limited supply of COVID-19 tools. More funding is required though to scale up adaptive measures which are working, accelerating new approaches and innovations to improve service delivery. This review also highlights briefly the plight of marginalised social groups, people living with disabilities, women and children during the pandemic. According to estimates by Global Fund, Gavi, Global Financing Facility, access to life-saving health interventions for women, children and adolescents in 36 of the world’s poorest countries has dropped by as much as 25% due to COVID-19. Countries must build on the momentum of health innovations during the COVID-19 crisis to build more resilient health systems that can withstand disruptions by future pandemics.
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Ripoll, Santiago. Death and Funerary Practices in the Context of Epidemics: Upholding the Rights of Religious Minorities. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/creid.2020.001.

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This working paper explores the challenges that emerge when public health measures to mitigate the risk of infection during an epidemic infringe on the rights of religious communities to say a final farewell to their loved ones according to their custom. The paper aims to answer these questions: how does epidemic response in the context of death and burials frame and impact religious minority rights? And in turn, how do sectarian dynamics reposition themselves in the context of epidemic response?
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