Browsing by Subject "Community health workers"
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Assessing data flow, facilitators and barriers to implementing mental health monitoring & evaluation systems in Mengo Hospital
(Makerere University, 2023)Introduction: Barriers to implementing mental health M&E Systems remain a huge problem and regardless of Uganda’s M&E Systems being in place, they were still grappling with collecting the expected data. These barriers range ... -
Assessing the effect of results-based financing on the maternal, newborn, and child health indicators for a community health program in Kyotera District, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2024)Background: The study recognizes the pressing need for improved Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) outcomes in Uganda, where a significant number of women still receive limited antenatal care and give birth outside ... -
Assessment of the performance of community nurses in the home based care strategy at TASO Mbale.
(2009-11)BACKGROUND: Care for HIV/AIDS is optimized by the integration of family and community (WHO, 2002). The home based care strategy of HIV/AIDS service delivery was launched by the AIDS support organisation (TASO) in the year ... -
Can community health workers and caretakers recognise pneumonia in children? Experiences from Western Uganda
(Elsevier, 2006)Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are leading killers of children. Case management using community health workers (CHW) has halved ARI mortality in children in Asia. WHO/UNICEF recommend integrating pneumonia into Home ... -
Factors affecting performance of community health workers implementing water, sanitation and hygiene activities in Kawempe Division, Kampala, Uganda
(Makerere University, 2019-01)Background Community Health Workers (CHWs) play an important role in the delivery of community based health services especially where access to health care facilities is difficult. Although substantial evidence on the ... -
Factors associated with village health team members’ adherence to practice guidelines in Mella Sub County, Tororo District, Eastern Uganda
(Makerere University, 2018-07-30)Background: Village Health Teams (VHTs), globally known as Community Health Workers (CHWs) were introduced into Uganda’s health system by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in the year 2000. CHWs attained global recognition after ... -
"I never thought that this baby would survive; I thought that it would die any time'; perceptions and care for preterm babies in Eastern Uganda.
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2010)Objective To explore the current care for and perceptions about preterm babies among community members in eastern Uganda. Methods A neonatal midwife observed care of preterm babies in one general hospital and 15 health ... -
Injury patterns in rural and urban Uganda
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2001)Objectives—To describe and contrast injury patterns in rural and urban Uganda. Settings—One rural and one urban community in Uganda. Methods—Community health workers interviewed adult respondents in households selected by ... -
Integrated community case management of malaria and pneumonia in Eastern Uganda: care-seeking, adherence, and community health worker performance.
(Makerere University, 2013-11-22)Background: Despite being easily preventable and treatable, malaria and pneumonia are major killers of children aged less than five years. Integrated community based interventions through which lay persons called community ... -
Traditional birth attendants in rural Gambia: Beyond health to social cohesion.
(Women's Health and Action Research Center, 2007)Studies of traditional birth attendants over-emphasise the health dimension. Based on ethnographic fieldwork (utilising participant observation, individual interviews, group discussions, participatory rapid appraisal, and ...