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Uganda: Does Information Matter?

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-14T22:24:54Z
dc.date.available2015-12-14T22:24:54Z
dc.date.issued2015-09
dc.description.abstractUganda has made important progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals, including halving its poverty rate to around 20 percent from more than 50 percent in the early 1990s. But healthcare, especially in the rural areas, is generally of poor quality. Small clinics, known as dispensaries, provide care to Uganda’s rural residents. The clinics offer preventive, maternity, and outpatient care, as well as lab services. All services are supposed to be free. Six to 10 people staff most clinics, including a trained medical worker, nurses, nursing aides, and others. But roughly 50 percent of the staff are absent on a typical day and patients’ average wait time exceeds two hours. Uganda’s health sector is decentralized and Health Unit Management Committees are supposed to be the link between the community and the facility. In practice, there’s little action on the part of the committees in terms of supervision or support. In 2005, a World Bank supported team decided to test the impact of a program to encourage rural residents to get involved in local health care delivery. Community members and health staff were given report cards grading the quality of local clinics, including information about specific clinic operations, absences and the quality of care. Meetings were facilitated between community members and health facilities to allow them to draw up a shared vision of what was needed and make a plan to achieve this. A year later, the evaluation found that the quality of healthcare improved, as reflected in lower child mortality and improved child weight. In 2007, the team expanded the project in order to test whether just bringing people together with health providers for meetings and encouraging community monitoring processes, without providing report cards, could be as effective.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/11/25485734/uganda-information-matter
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/23342
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/23342
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFrom evidence to policy;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectNEW COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectCOMMUNITIES
dc.subjectCLINICAL GUIDELINES
dc.subjectINFANT MORTALITY
dc.subjectTREATMENT
dc.subjectPREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS
dc.subjectWORKERS
dc.subjectFETUS
dc.subjectPARTICIPATION
dc.subjectCARE
dc.subjectMEDICINE
dc.subjectHEALTH OUTCOMES
dc.subjectINFORMATION
dc.subjectSERVICES
dc.subjectPUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE
dc.subjectDEATH
dc.subjectDEATH RATE
dc.subjectHEALTH
dc.subjectHEALTH CLINICS
dc.subjectHEALTH WORKERS
dc.subjectPROJECTS
dc.subjectPROJECT
dc.subjectNUTRITION
dc.subjectECONOMICS
dc.subjectHEALTH FACILITIES
dc.subjectMANAGEMENT
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectOUTPATIENT CARE
dc.subjectWEIGHT
dc.subjectHEALTH RECORDS
dc.subjectPREGNANT WOMEN
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE DELIVERY
dc.subjectCHILDREN
dc.subjectEDUCATION
dc.subjectCLINICS
dc.subjectEVALUATION
dc.subjectDISPENSARIES
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectPATIENTS
dc.subjectPATIENT
dc.subjectHEALTH PROVIDERS
dc.subjectRURAL AREAS
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.subjectINTERVENTION
dc.subjectHEALTH INDICATORS
dc.subjectINFANTS
dc.subjectLOCAL PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectALL
dc.subjectPOPULATION
dc.subjectFACILITIES
dc.subjectNURSES
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE SERVICES
dc.subjectFUNDING
dc.subjectVISION
dc.subjectINTERVENTIONS
dc.subjectUSE OF HEALTH SERVICES
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY
dc.subjectHEALTH CARE QUALITY
dc.subjectWOMEN
dc.subjectRESEARCH
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
dc.subjectDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
dc.subjectHEALTH SERVICES
dc.subjectIMPLEMENTATION
dc.subjectPREGNANCY
dc.subjectSERVICE
dc.subjectDISTRICTS
dc.subjectMORTALITY
dc.subjectPOSTERS
dc.subjectNURSING
dc.subjectDESIGN
dc.titleUgandaen
dc.title.subtitleDoes Information Matter?en
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okr.date.disclosure2015-11-24
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-29T09:55:43.460339Z
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okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.region.countryUganda
okr.topicRural Development::Rural Development Knowledge & Information Systems
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Monitoring & Evaluation
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Disease Control & Prevention
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Systems Development & Reform
okr.topicCommunities and Human Settlements::Housing & Human Habitats
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