‘It puts life in us and we feel big’: shifts in the local health care system during the introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria into drug shops in Uganda

Critical Public Health

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 48-62

  Hutchinson, Eleanor ^a   Chandler, Clare ^a   Clarke, Siân ^a   Lal, Sham ^a   Magnussen, Pascal ^b   Kayendeke, Miriam ^c   Nabirye, Christine ^c   Kizito, James ^c   Mbonye, Anthony ^d  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c The ACT 2 Project   (Uganda)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

complex intervention trials; health systems; Malaria; private sector; rapid diagnostic tests

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG MARKETING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALARIA RAPID TEST; PHARMACY; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRAINING; UGANDA;

EID: 84920525467     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2014.886762     Document Type: Article

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