Background:The Ministry of Health is drafting a policy that aims at integrating health services delivery for people above 60 years within the existing delivery structures in Uganda. To inform their …
Providing care to cancer patients in resource-poor settings often demands complex trade-offs regarding resource allocation. It is estimated that over 60% of all cancer deaths worldwide occur in low-and middle-income …
Goodman C,
Benova L,
Haemmerli M,
Santos A,
Penn-Kekana L,
Lange I,
Matovu F,
Wong KLM
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Substantial investments have been made in clinical social franchising to improve quality of care of private facilities in low-and middle-income countries but concerns have emerged that the benefits fail to …
The key to high impact health services is institutionalizing and sustaining programme evaluation. Uganda represents a success story in the use of a specific programme evaluation method: Lot Quality Assurance …
Haggblade S,
Duodu K G,
Kabasa J D,
Minnaar A,
Ojijo N K.O,
Taylor J R.N
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background:Sub-Saharan Africa is the last region to undergo a nutrition transition and can still avoid its adverse health outcomes.Objective:The article explores emerging responses to âbend the curveâ in sub-Saharan Africaâs …
Haglund MM,
Kiryabwire J,
Parker S,
Zomorodi A,
MacLeod D,
Schroeder R,
Muhumuza M,
Merson M
2011
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Neurosurgical capacity is extremely deficient in East African countries where 27 neurosurgeons serve more than 250 million people. To build capacity, the Duke University Medical Center and New Mulago Hospital …
Haglund MM,
Kiryabwire J,
Muhumuza M,
Warf B,
Fuller A,
Freischlag K,
Ssenyonjo H,
Mukasa J,
Mugamba J
2017
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Neurosurgery in Uganda was virtually non-existent up until late 1960s. This changed when Dr. Jovan Kiryabwire spearheaded development of a neurosurgical unit at Mulago Hospital in Kampala. His work ethic …
Hagmann CF,
Robertson NJ,
Acolet D,
Chan D,
Onda S,
Nyombi N,
Nakakeeto M,
Cowan FM
2010
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background There has been no study assessing cranial ultrasound (cUS) scans in newborn infants born in equatorial Africa.Objective To assess the cUS scans of apparently well newborn term Ugandan infants …
Hagmann CF,
Robertson NJ,
Acolet D,
Nyombi N,
Nakakeeto M,
Cowan FM,
Ondo S
2011
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Few cUS studies of cerebral measurements are available for normal term infants. Normative data is important for evaluating cerebral structure size in symptomatic term infants and assessing preterm brain …
Hagmann CF,
Robertson NJ,
Acolet D,
Chan D,
Nyombi N,
Nakakeeto M,
Cowan FM
2015
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Newborn neurological examinations have mostly been developed in high-resource settings with cohorts comprising predominantly white Caucasian infants. No comparison has been made with different populations.Aims: To (i) establish the …
Background: Despite the worthy intentions of international health partnerships between high-income countries and countries with developing economies, the tangible benefits are rarely evaluated, limiting the assessment of the achievements of …
