Key Aspects of Health Policy Development to Improve Surgical Services in Uganda
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2010
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World journal of surgery
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Recently, surgical services have been gaining greater attention as an integral part of public health in lowincome
countries due to the significant volume and burden of surgical conditions, growing evidence of the cost effectiveness
of surgical intervention, and global disparities in surgical care. Nonetheless, there has been limited discussion
of the key aspects of health policy related to surgical services in low-income countries. Uganda, like other low-income sub-Saharan African countries, bears a heavy burden of surgical conditions with low surgical output in health facilities and significant unmet need for surgical care. To address this lack of adequate surgical services in Uganda, a diverse group of local stakeholders met in Kampala, Uganda, in May 2008 to develop a road map of key policy actions that would improve surgical services at
the national level. The group identified a list of health policy priorities to improve surgical services in Uganda. The priorities were classified into three areas: (1) human resources, (2) health systems, and (3) research and advocacy. This article is a critical discussion of these health policy priorities with references to recent literature. This was the first such multidisciplinary meeting in Uganda with a focus on surgical services and its output may have relevance to health policy development in other low income
countries planning to improve delivery of surgical services
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Luboga, S., Galukande, M., Mabweijano, J., Ozgediz, D., & Jayaraman, S. (2010). Key aspects of health policy development to improve surgical services in Uganda. World journal of surgery, 34(11), 2511-2517.DOI 10.1007/s00268-010-0585-2