Challenging logics of complex intervention trials: Community perspectives of a health care improvement intervention in rural Uganda

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue , 2015, Pages 10-17

  Okwaro, Ferdinand M ^a   Chandler, Clare I R ^a   Hutchinson, Eleanor ^a   Nabirye, Christine ^b   Taaka, Lilian ^b   Kayendeke, Miriam ^b   Nayiga, Susan ^b   Staedke, Sarah G ^a  

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

^b MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Community perceptions; Health care interventions; Malaria; Randomized controlled trials; Treatment seeking; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; CHLOROQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE;

COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; MALARIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERCEPTION; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY CARE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; RURAL AREA; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT; ANEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARASITEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STANDARDS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

TORORO; UGANDA;

ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALARIA; MALE; PARASITEMIA; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; STANDARD OF CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; UGANDA;

EID: 84924066171     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.032     Document Type: Article

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