Behind the scenes of the PRIME intervention: Designing a complex intervention to improve malaria care at public health centres in Uganda

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  DiLiberto, Deborah D ^a   Staedke, Sarah G ^a,b   Nankya, Florence ^b   Maiteki Sebuguzi, Catherine ^b   Taaka, Lilian ^b   Nayiga, Susan ^b   Kamya, Moses R ^b,c   Haaland, Ane ^d   Chandler, Clare I R ^a  

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

^b INFECTIOUS DISEASES RESEARCH COLLABORATION   (Uganda)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Complex intervention; Health centre management; Health worker; Intervention design; Malaria; Patient centred services; Quality of care; Rapid diagnostic tests; Theory of change; Training

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; MALARIA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UGANDA;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MALARIA; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; UGANDA;

EID: 84948823604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.29067     Document Type: Article

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