Governance for injury care systems in Ghana, South Africa and Rwanda: development and pilot testing of an assessment tool.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to evaluate health systems governance for injury care in three sub-Saharan countries from policymakers' and injury care providers' perspectives.

Setting

Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa.

Design

Based on Siddiqi et al's framework for governance, we developed an online assessment tool for health system governance for injury with 37 questions covering health policy and implementation under 10 overarching principles of strategic vision, participation and consensus orientation, rule of law, transparency, responsiveness of institutions, equity, effectiveness or efficiency, accountability, ethics and intelligence and information. A literature review was also done to support the scoring. We derived scores using two methods-investigator scores a

SUBMITTER: Odland ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10481730 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature