Community involvement in health services at Namayumba and Bobi health centres: A case study

African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

 
 
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Title Community involvement in health services at Namayumba and Bobi health centres: A case study Participation de la communauté aux services de santé aux centres de Namayumba et Bobi : étude de cas.
 
Creator Namatovu, Jane F. Ndoboli, Fred Kuule, Julius Besigye, Innocent
 
Subject Family Medicine; primary heath care community involvement, community health, health services — —
Description Background: Community involvement has been employed in the development of both vertical and horizontal health programmes. In Uganda, there is no empirical evidence on whether and how communities are involved in their health services.Aim and Setting: The aim of this study was to establish the existence of community involvement in health services and to identify its support mechanisms in Namayumba and Bobi health centres in Wakiso and Gulu districts, respectively.Methods: Participants were selected with the help of a community mobiliser. Key informants were selected purposively depending on their expertise and the roles played in their respective communities. The focus group discussions and key informant interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. The transcripts were analysed manually for emerging themes and sub-themes.Results: Several themes emerged from the transcripts and we categorised them broadly into those that promote community involvement in health services and those that jeopardise it. Easy community mobilisation and several forms of community and health centre efforts promote community involvement, whilst lack of trust for health workers and poor communication downplay community involvement in their health services.Conclusion: Community involvement is low in health services in both Namayumba and Bobi health centres. Contexte: On a eu recours à la participation de la communauté pour développer des programmes de santé verticaux et horizontaux. En Uganda, il n’existe pas de données empiriques indiquant si et comment les communautés participent à leurs services de santé.Objectif et lieu: Le but de cette étude était de déterminer l’existence d’une participation de lacommunauté aux services de santé et d’identifier ses mécanismes de soutien aux centres desanté de Namayumba et de Bobi dans les districts de Wakiso et Gulu, respectivement.Méthodes: On a sélectionné les participants grâce à une personne qui a mobilisé la communauté. On a sélectionné exprès des informants clés selon leur expertise et leur rôle dans leurs communautés respectives. On a enregistré et transcrit textuellement les discussions du groupe et les entrevues des informants clés. On a analysé manuellement les transcriptions pour déterminer les thèmes et sous-thèmes émergents.Résultats: Plusieurs thèmes sont apparus dans les transcriptions et nous les avons classés engros selon ceux qui encourage la participation de la communauté aux services de santé et ceuxqui la compromettent. La mobilisation communautaire simple et plusieurs formes d’effortscommunautaires et des centres de santé encouragent la participation de la communauté,tandis que le manque de confiance envers les professionnels de la santé et une mauvaisecommunication freinent la participation communautaire à ses services de santé.Conclusion: La participation communautaire est faible dans les services de santé des centresde santé de Namayumba et Bobi.
 
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Contributor This work was funded by the MESAU-MEPI under programmatic award number 1R24TW008886 from the Forgarty International Center. —
Date 2014-12-09
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Qualitative research —
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/phcfm.v6i1.613
 
Source African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine; Vol 6, No 1 (2014); 5 pages 2071-2936 2071-2928
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Africa; East Africa; Uganda; Gulu and Wakiso Districts August 2012 - August 2013 18yrs and above; Males and Females; Ugandans — — —
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 Jane F. Namatovu, Fred Ndoboli, Julius Kuule, Innocent Besigye https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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