Integrating Nutrition Actions in Service Delivery: The Practices of Frontline Workers in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Integrating nutrition actions into service delivery in different policy sectors is an increasing concern. Nutrition literature recognizes the discrepancies existing between policies as adopted and actual service delivery. This study applies a street-level bureaucracy (SLB) perspective to understand frontline workers' practices that enact or impede nutrition integration in services and the conditions galvanizing them.

Methods

This qualitative exploratory study assesses the contextual conditions and practices of 45 frontline workers employed by the agriculture, health and community development departments in two Ugandan districts.

Results

Frontline workers incur different demands and resources arising at societal, organizational, and individual level. Hence,

SUBMITTER: Namugumya BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105165 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature