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Mental health action plan 2013-2020

The action plan builds upon, but does not duplicate, the work of WHO's mental health gap action programme (mhGAP). The latter was to expand services for mental health in low resource settings. The action plan is global in its scope and is designed to provide guidance for national action plans. It ad...

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Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (06 October 2020)

A. Executive summary • Two preprint studies demonstrated that SARS-CoV2 D614G substitution enhances infectivity, replication fitness, and early transmission in hamsters. Findings indicate the D614G variant exhibited significantly faster droplet transmission between hamsters and clinical evidence tha...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-06-october-2020/?...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 139 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Uganda Human Development Report 2007 Rediscovering Agriculture for Human Development

Uganda Human Development Report 2007, is the seventh in a series on the country. The report looks at issues that profoundly influence the level and status of human development.The report is the outcome of a wide participatory and consultative process that involved government ministries, Uganda Burea...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Uganda%20Human%20Development%20%20Report%2...
Theme: Workforce Development
Sub Theme: Human Resource Development
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 140 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Outbreak Brief 74: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

The document titled Outbreak Brief 74: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern A...

https://africacdc.org/download/outbreak-brief-74-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-pandemic/?ind=162...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 days ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry of Health Stock Status Report as at 1st June 2020

The purpose of this report is to inform the Ministry of Health and all stakeholders of the stock levels in the country as a tool that enables appropriate logistics decision making . This report highlights stock status, real challenges, bottlenecks but also recommends potential solutions to mitigate...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/MOH%20SSR%201st%20June%202020.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 151 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

World Development Report 2017, Governance and the law

This Report was prepared by a team led by Luis Felipe López-Calva and Yongmei Zhou. Lead chapter authors were Edouard Al-Dahdah, David Bulman, Deborah Isser, Marco Larizza, Ezequiel Molina, Abla Safir, and Siddharth Sharma. The extended core team was composed of Kimberly Bolch, Lidia Ceriani, Samant...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/World%20Development%20Report%202017.pdf
Theme: Workforce Development
Sub Theme: Human Resource Development
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 20 hours ago 183 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

iHRIS: Time and Attendance

The integrated Human Resource Information System (iHRIS) is a computerized Human Resources management tool consisting of electronic databases for storing, reporting, and analysing data from the time professionals enter preservice training to when they leave the workforce to ensure timely availabilit...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/HRIS_Time_and_Attendance_Aug2018.pdf
Theme: Digital Health
Sub Theme: Health Information Systems
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 159 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Annual Health Sector Performance Report Financial Year 2012 / 2013

The Annual Health Sector Performance Report for 2012/13 Financial Year provides progress of the annual work plan as well as the overall health sector performance against the set targets for the Financial Year 2012/13 with a comparative analysis of the previous trends and progress toward achieving th...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/AHSPR%202012-13.pdf
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health policy and planning
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 144 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Post of Director General : Note by the Legal Counsel

This document provides information on the election that will take place in the Health Assembly to appoint the Director-General.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Post%20of%20Director%20General%20notice%20...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 126 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Childrens Health Status in Uganda

This paper studies trends and determinants of children's standardized heights, a good overall measure of children's health status, in Uganda over the 1990s. During this period, Uganda made impressive strides in economic growth and poverty reduction (Appleton, 2001). However, there is concern that im...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Children%27s%20health%20status%20in%20Ugan...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Maternal and Child Health
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

The Brain Drain and Retention of Health Professionals in Africa

The African continent is facing a health crisis occasioned by a number of factors that have affected the sector over the past two decades or more. These factors include the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the reemergence of old communicable diseases such as TB and Malaria, and the apparent paradox of increasing...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/The%20Brain%20drain%20and%20Retention%20of...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 1 day ago 125 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Report of assessment of use of CHW in differentiated HIV/AIDS service models

Health workers are central to improving health system performance. According to the Annual Health Sector Performance Report (2016) public sector health facility staffing was 71% and PNFP staffing was 73%. The health workers in the PNFP sector are mainly comprised of support or para-clinical staff. S...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Report%20on%20the%20assessment%20of%20use%...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: HIVAIDS
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 135 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Refugee Health Report Uganda, June 2019

A total of 253,176 consultations were made in all the refugee serving health facilities in the refugee settlements in Uganda compared to 241,134 of May 2019. 78% of the consultations were Refugees and 22% were the host populations. Top morbidity causes were Malaria at 47%, skin diseases at 6%, water...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Refugee%20Health%20Report%20June%202019.pd...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 3 hours ago 183 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National health policy: Reducing poverty through promoting peoples health.

The development of this National Health Policy (NHP II) has been informed by the National Development Program (NDP) for the period 2009/10��2013/14, the overall development agenda for Uganda. The NDP places emphasis on investing in the promotion of people��s health, a fundamental human right for all...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20Policy%202009%20Draft....
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 23 hours ago 171 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

National health facility master facility list 2018

This Health Facility Master List is a complete listing of both public and private health facilities in the country. There are 6,937 health facilities and each are established under unique administrative units i.e. Region, district, health sub-district, sub-county etc. The need to uniquely identify...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/National%20Health%20Facility%20Master%20Li...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Health system resilience
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 216 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly epidemiological Bulletin week 31: 27th Jul-2nd Aug 2020

This epidemiological bulletin serves to inform all stakeholders at district, national, and global levels on disease trends, public health surveillance and interventions undertaken in detecting, preventing and responding to public health events in the country on a weekly basis. This issue, we showcas...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Weekly%20Epidemiological%20Bulletin%20Week...
Theme:
Sub Theme: Surveillance and reporting
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 158 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update (28 September 2021)

The document titled COVID-19 Scientific and Public Health Policy Update – (28 September 2021) offers a comprehensive insight into Emergency Response and Preparedness, focusing on key issues related to Technical Guidance. It addresses critical health challenges within Central Africa, Eastern Africa,...

https://africacdc.org/download/covid-19-scientific-and-public-health-policy-update-28-september-2021...
Theme: Response
Sub Theme: Emergency response operations
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 2 days ago 128 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019

An Act to protect the privacy of the individual and personal data by regulating the collection and processing of personal information; to provide for the rights of the persons whose data is collected and the obligations of data collectors, data processors and data controllers; to regulate the use or...

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Data-Protection-and-Privacy-Act-2019.pdf
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 10 hours ago 142 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Ministry Of Health guidelines for eye care

The Eye Care Guidelines aim to provide easy to use, practical, complete and useful information on how to correctly diagnose and manage the seventeen common eye conditions in Uganda.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Ministry%20of%20Health%20Guidelines%20for%...
Theme: Health Risk Environment
Sub Theme: Other
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 22 hours ago 141 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

Weekly malaria status - Uganda week 16, 2018.

This publication is about the malaria case statistics of Uganda in the 16th week of 2018.

http://library.health.go.ug/sites/default/files/resources/Malaria%20Weekly%20Status%20Report.%20Week...
Theme: Health Systems
Sub Theme: Malaria
Category: Public Health Resources Last updated: 5 hours ago 152 Views 0 Comments Add to Favourites

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