Background: Poor quality of care and access to effective and affordable interventions have
been attributed to constraints and bottlenecks within and outside the health system …

Abstract Background The District Health System was endorsed as the key strategy to
achieve 'Health for all'during the WHO organized inter-regional meeting in Harare in 1987 …

Abstract Background The Community and District Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES)
project pioneered the implementation of a comprehensive district management and …

While several studies have documented the various barriers that caretakers of children
under five routinely confront when seeking healthcare in Uganda, few have sought to …

Background Innovative and sustainable strategies to strengthen districts and other sub-
national health systems and management are urgently required to reduce child mortality …

Background In a decentralised health system, district health managers are tasked with
planning for health service delivery, which should be evidence based. However, planning in …

Background Continuous quality improvement processes in health care were developed for
use at health facility level, and that is where they have been used the most, often addressing …

Introduction Uganda's district-level administrative units buttress the public healthcare
system. In many districts, however, local capacity is incommensurate with that required to …

Use of district-specific evidence in the planning process is not an end in itself but part of a
process to improve the prioritization of interventions for women and children. In order to …

EV4GH began as a leadership and capacitybuilding programme incubated within the
Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (ITM-A) by a team led by Professor Wim Van Damme …