How people-centred health systems can reach the grassroots: Experiences implementing community-level quality improvement in rural Tanzania and Uganda

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2018, Pages e1-e13

  Tancred, Tara ^a,b   Mandu, Rogers ^c   Hanson, Claudia ^b,d   Okuga, Monica ^c   Manzi, Fatuma ^a   Peterson, Stefan ^c,d,e   Schellenberg, Joanna ^b   Waiswa, Peter ^c,d   Marchant, Tanya ^b   Baker, U ^f   Balidawa, H ^f   Byaruhanga, R ^f   Jaribu, J ^f   Kajjo, D ^f   Kalungi, J ^f   Majura, A ^f   Mussa, A ^f   Okong, P ^f   Sedekia, Y ^f   Tomson, G ^f  

^a Ifakara Health Institute   (India)

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

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Uganda)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f NONE

Author keywords

community mobilization; Community participation; developing countries; health care seeking behaviour; health systems; maternal and child health; participatory research; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD HEALTH; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MENTORING; NEWBORN CARE; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL NORM; STAFF; TANZANIA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UGANDA; VOLUNTEER; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS;

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INFANT HEALTH; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; UGANDA; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 85015043759     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czu070     Document Type: Article

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