Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in Low and Middle Income Countries

A Complex Intervention in Uganda

AvLouise Ackers,Jonathan Huck

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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The book demonstrates the impact that overwhelming dependency on overseas support has had on service development and the delivery of universal health coverage and provides an evidence base to support a change in the contribution that overseas assistance makes to health systems planning.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-04
Mått:148 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:229
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031854224

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Professor Louise Ackers holds Chair in Global Social Justice in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford UK and is Chair of Knowledge For Change a UK and Ugandan registered NGO.Professor Jonny Huck holds a Chair in Computational Geography at the University of Manchester.Laurence Kenney is Professor of Rehabilitation Technologies at the University of Salford and Academic Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Prosthetics and Orthotics.Allan Ndawula is Project Manager for Knowledge For Change and Research Associate in Uganda.Jackson Murungi is an Orthopaedic Technologist and Research Associate with Knowledge For Change, Uganda.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Why Rehabilitation?.- Chapter 2 Patients’ Journeys to Amputation (1): Emergency Care Services.- Chapter 3 Patients’ Journeys to Amputation (2): Long Term Conditions.- Chapter 4 Accessing Prosthetic Services in Contexts of Donor-Dependency.- Chapter 5 Leaving No One behind? The Essential Role of the Public Sector in the Delivery of Universal Health Care.- Chapter 6 Promoting Free Public Prosthetic Services through Social Enterprise: The Ninsiima Rehabilitation Centre.- Chapter 7 Digital technologies to support the building of an evidence base on ‘what works’ in Uganda: A case study in upper limb prosthetics.- Chapter 8 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations.