Contextual factors affecting integration of eye health into school health programme in Zanzibar: a qualitative health system research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Short-term school eye health programmes supported by external funders have sustainability issues. This study aimed to understand the contextual factors affecting integrating eye health into the school health programme.

Methods

We elicited responses from 83 respondents, purposefully selected from the Ministry of Health (n = 7), Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (n = 7), hospitals/eye centres (n = 5), master trainers (4) and schools (n = 60) who participated in in-depth interviews. Their responses were analysed and grouped into contextual factors according to the WHO Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research: stakeholders/political, institutional, physical, cultural, delivery system and others. Themes were then generated, and quotations were pre

SUBMITTER: Chan VF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10722834 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature