Health Knowledge Translation Initiatives In Uganda

Although total spending provides insight into overall health care spending, additional indicators are used to measure changes to health care financing. These include the amount spent calculated as a percentage of GDP and the amount spent per capita. As a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), CIHI reports that health care expenditure decreased from 11.6% of GDP in 2011 to 10.9% of GDP in 2015 (image 2: CIHI spending as percentage of GDP). This decline is corroborated by the World Health Organization (WHO) analysis

The poor areas have many less doctors than the wealthy spots, even though the rural areas suffer from much harsher diseases on a larger scale. The countries either provide medical training for their own citizens or fund their training from somewhere else, but once the students have the skills to save lives, they move to different places for higher pay. This issue lies not only in South Africa, but in the entire continent. For example, for every Liberian doctor working in Liberia, there are two working abroad. Not only is there a shortage of doctors in general (averaging about 1.15 doctors for every 1,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa) but a shortage of nurses and midwives. Over two-thirds of mothers in Africa have no health professionals to guide them through hardships regarding pregnancy and childbirth, causing Africa alone to be responsible for over one half of the world’s infant and maternal

Health care systems are organizations that are formed to meet the overall health needs of the population. Health care is regarded as one of the leading cause in promoting not only physical and mental health but the well-being of the population. Legislation is implemented requiring government to offer services to all members of its society. The role of health services and the organizations that provide aid is to focus on the health of an individual and to uphold their human rights. According to WHO (2013), a “well-functioning health care system requires a robust financing mechanism, a well-trained and adequately-paid workforce, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies, and well maintained facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicines and technologies (World Health Organization; 2013).

A country’s health care system refers to all the institutions, programs, personnel, procedures, and the resources that are used to meet the health needs of its population. Health care systems vary from one country to another, depending on government policies and the health needs of the population. Besides, health care programs are flexible in the sense that they are tailored to meet health needs as they arise. Among the stakeholders in the formulation of a country’s health care system are governments, religious groups, non-governmental organizations, charity organizations, trade/labor unions, and interested individuals (Duckett, 2008). These entities formulate, implement, evaluate, and reform health services according to the

Good, accessible healthcare has always been a part of my life. This summer I got to see firsthand that this is not the case for everyone. I knew disparities in healthcare were prevalent in the world, but seeing it in person instead of reading about it in a global health textbook opened up a whole new door for me. As I have reflected on these experiences, I have come to the realization that me becoming a doctor is not about “me” necessarily. I have the opportunity to gain a good education and contribute to this world, which many people do not have, and I cannot think of a better way to do this than to help improve health. With my medical degree, I want to go and work in Zambia, and really any other country which faces large disparities in access to quality health care because I have been fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to enter the medical profession and it is time I use the resources I have to help the global community solve this issue.

The residents of Africa are suffering from preventable, treatable, and fatal diseases everyday at a higher rate compared to developed countries. The healthcare crisis in Africa is the primary cause of all these deaths, and includes inefficient healthcare systems. Consequently, African's inefficient healthcare systems results in poor delivery of care and a shortage of health professionals. The healthcare crisis in Africa is a current issue impacting the lives of many African's who don't have the same access to resources as developed countries such as the United States. These resources can save the lives of many African's dying of preventable and curable disease, and understanding why the African continent has little access to them

A health care system is the association of institutions related to people's health and resources. It delivers health services in order to meet the health needs of the targeted populations (Nigam, 2011). There is a wide variation in the world of how different nations organize their health care systems, with almost all nations having differing health care organizational structures. Planning in some countries for health care distributes to those participating in markets. In other countries, however, planning is as a result of joint efforts between the government, religious bodies, and charities among other groups (Nigam, 2011).

It is important to do accountability because it is an only way of enhancing task incentive. This makes the organization's policies responsive and also effective. That is why different mechanisms of accountability have come up including hospital boards, public campaigns, and village health committees. These are being used to bring awareness publicly and also globally in implementation of health services and programs (Herzlinger 2006). They support a wide range of activities which include

The World Bank published an article detailing the process of sharing information and knowledge, titled the “Knowledge Exchange” (Kumar). It outlines an example in Tanzania where the child mortality rate was extremely high and the government wanted to find a way to lower it. The Tanzanian people themselves did not have the answer and thus

Although knowledge translation is one of the greatest strategies widely used in healthcare organizations, there is some of ambiguities and barriers over its utilization. Many studies explore the complexity of barriers and limitation for KT application into clinical practice, these barriers are broadly divided into three aspects as the person, practice environment, and knowledge translation activities (Metzler & Metz, 2010).

The major problem, they have within the healthcare industry is the lack of government funding and the total expenditure on health per capita is $109, compared to the $7290 per capita in the United States. Healthcare consumes 4.9% of India’s GDP versus the 16% in the United States. The outcomes equal long lines, fewer facilities and inefficient staff. The supply of healthcare in India is on par with that in sub-Saharan African countries. According to the World Bank, 75% of all health expenditures is in the private sector, where 90% of healthcare costs are paid out-of-pocket.

Health System has been developed; the most basic unit is a Sub-Health Post or Health Post in each Village Development Committee area. However, the expansion of the Health System has not been matched by an expansion in the domestive resources, workers and supplies, and the available resources are not efficiently distributed. In

Although two types of knowledge (tacit and explicit) may appear to be categorized differently, author stresses that both types of knowledge need to be incorporated into clinicians’ problem solving and decision making processes for patients. The second section highlights the three steps of transformation which help form knowledge. The steps include, transition from reality to data, data to information (know-what), and information to knowledge (know-how). Author also examines knowledge with a different angle of looking at potential to increase or decrease its value. Building on these core concepts, the author brings the article to a final section. He takes an in-depth look at five different relationships and capabilities that hold critical importance in knowledge-value chain. The five associations include mapping/acquisition, creating/destruction, integration/sharing/transferring, replication/protection, and lastly performance assessment/innovation. When these relationships interdepend on each other actively in great synergy, they will bring higher knowledge performance granting a higher overall value for the organization. Knowledge mapping and acquisition serves as a foundation of knowledge translation. First, public health organizations must collect, filter, understand, and learn the knowledge. With the pool of knowledge retrieved in the first step, public health organizations can create knowledge from merging tacit, explicit, internal, and

Worldwide, approximately 1.3 billion people do not have access to affordable and efficient healthcare and out of those who have access, almost 170 million are forced to spend around 40 % of their income on medical treatment (Asante et al,2016).In low and middle income countries (LMICs), the major constraint to the access of healthcare is financial burden, where out-of-pocket payments (OPP) contribute to approximately 50 % of total health expenditure (WHO, 2010). As a result, in these countries there is high probability of many households being pushed into poverty due to high medical expenses (McIntyre,2006).The matter of concern in LMICS is that poor and disadvantaged groups of population do not have access to adequate quality of healthcare.For instance, according to WHO (2010) up to 20 % of women in rich population are more likely to have a birth attended by skilled health worker than a poor woman. Therefore, taking an action to address health inequities faced in these countries would save up to 700,000 women.

It is said that a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Healthcare is an important concern for every government as people get ill, accidents happen, emergencies arise and the health institutions are needed to diagnose, manage and treat the different types of ailments or diseases that may arise. The healthcare industry is divided into several areas in order to meet the health needs of anyone and everyone. All over the world, the healthcare structures are different to accommodate specific needs of the people in that demographic however the healthcare methodology in Third World Countries does not accommodate the needs of their respective inhabitants in comparison to First world Countries. The Rate of corruption, quality of healthcare institutions, lack of adequate, functional surveillance systems and problematic hygiene conditions are amongst the top reasons why the healthcare systems in third world countries are substandard in comparison to First world nations.