Measuring Organizational Culture in Ethiopia's Primary Care System: Validation of a Practical Survey Tool for Managers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Organizational culture has been widely recognized as predictive of health system performance and improved outcomes across various healthcare settings. Research on organizational culture in healthcare has been largely conducted in high-income settings, and validated scales to measure this concept in primary healthcare systems in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings are lacking. Our study aimed to validate a tool to measure organizational culture in the context of the Ethiopian Primary Healthcare Transformation Initiative (PTI), a collaborative of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative to strengthen primary healthcare system performance in Ethiopia.

Methods

Following established survey development and adaptat

SUBMITTER: Liu L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10105185 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature