Maternal Health Care in Rural Uganda : Leveraging Traditional and Modern Knowledge Systems
This note reviews the Rural Extended
Services and Care for Ultimate Emergency Relief (RESCUER)
project in Uganda, started as an initiative to address
strategies for expanding the maternal referral system, and
improving the Traditional Birth Attendants (ABE) assistance.
The project design addressed the high maternal mortality
problem, which was implemented by a multi-sectoral Iganga
district task force, and supported by an overall monitoring,
implemented by the Ministry of Health, and the United
Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Lessons
highlight how the mutual exclusive aspects of communication,
transportation, and quality of services delivery, did
however promote a successful interaction; how the impact of
technology, appropriately considered the local problems, and
conditions in Uganda; and, how institutional capacity, built
on existing infrastructure, and local capacity, adequately
included the traditional knowledge systems.
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Musoke, Maria G.N. |
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| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2002-01
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| Subjects: | MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES,
RURAL HEALTH,
KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS,
PROJECT DESIGN,
BIRTH ATTENDANTS,
TRAINING ASSISTANCE,
MATERNAL MORTALITY,
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION,
TASK TEAMS,
MONITORING CRITERIA,
COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT,
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS,
HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY,
QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE,
TECHNOLOGY DISSEMINATION,
LOCAL CONDITIONS,
INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY,
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE CHILDBIRTH,
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY,
EMPOWERMENT,
HEALTH CARE,
HEALTH SERVICES,
ICT,
ISOLATION,
KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS,
LEARNING,
MORTALITY,
PARTNERSHIP,
RADIO,
RADIOS,
RURAL AREAS,
RURAL POPULATION,
SUSTAINABILITY,
TECHNICIANS,
TELEMEDICINE,
TELEPHONES,
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE,
TRANSPORT,
WORKERS, |
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/01/1660264/maternal-health-care-rural-uganda-leveraging-traditional-modern-knowledge-systems
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/10798
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