A qualitative analysis of health professionals’ job descriptions for surgical service delivery in Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorBuwembo, William
dc.contributor.authorMunabi, Ian G.
dc.contributor.authorGalukande, Moses
dc.contributor.authorKituuka, Olivia
dc.contributor.authorLuboga, Samuel A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-14T05:23:58Z
dc.date.available2021-12-14T05:23:58Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe ever increasing demand for surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa is creating a need to increase the number of health workers able to provide surgical care. This calls for the optimisation of all available human resources to provide universal access to essential and emergency surgical services. One way of optimising already scarce human resources for health is by clarifying job descriptions to guide the scope of practice, measuring rewards/benefits for the health workers providing surgical care, and informing education and training for health professionals. This study set out to determine the scope of the mandate to perform surgical procedures in current job descriptions of surgical care health professionals in Uganda. Methods: A document review was conducted of job descriptions for the health professionals responsible for surgical service delivery in the Ugandan Health care system. The job descriptions were extracted and subjected to a qualitative content data analysis approach using a text based RQDA package of the open source R statistical computing software. Results: It was observed that there was no explicit mention of assignment of delivery of surgical services to a particular cadre. Instead the bulk of direct patient related care, including surgical attention, was assigned to the lower cadres, in particular the medical officer. Senior cadres were assigned to perform predominantly advisory and managerial roles in the health care system. In addition, a no cost opportunity to task shift surgical service delivery to the senior clinical officers was identified.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBuwembo, W., Munabi, I. G., Galukande, M., Kituuka, O., & Luboga, S. A. (2014). A qualitative analysis of health professionals’ job descriptions for surgical service delivery in Uganda. Human resources for health, 12(1), 1-9.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://human-resources-health.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1478-4491-12-S1-S5
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/455
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHuman resources for healthen_US
dc.subjecthealth professionalsen_US
dc.subjectjoben_US
dc.subjectservice deliveryen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.titleA qualitative analysis of health professionals’ job descriptions for surgical service delivery in Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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