Maternal Health Care in Rural Uganda : Leveraging Traditional and Modern Knowledge Systems
This note reviews the Rural Extended Services and Care for Ultimate Emergency Relief (RESCUER) project in Uganda, started as an initiative to address strategies for expanding the maternal referral system, and improving the Traditional Birth Attenda...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/01/1660264/maternal-health-care-rural-uganda-leveraging-traditional-modern-knowledge-systems http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10798 |
| Summary: | This note reviews the Rural Extended
Services and Care for Ultimate Emergency Relief (RESCUER)
project in Uganda, started as an initiative to address
strategies for expanding the maternal referral system, and
improving the Traditional Birth Attendants (ABE) assistance.
The project design addressed the high maternal mortality
problem, which was implemented by a multi-sectoral Iganga
district task force, and supported by an overall monitoring,
implemented by the Ministry of Health, and the United
Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA). Lessons
highlight how the mutual exclusive aspects of communication,
transportation, and quality of services delivery, did
however promote a successful interaction; how the impact of
technology, appropriately considered the local problems, and
conditions in Uganda; and, how institutional capacity, built
on existing infrastructure, and local capacity, adequately
included the traditional knowledge systems. |
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