Living through conflict and post-conflict: experiences of health workers in northern Uganda and lessons for people-centred health systems.

ABSTRACT: Providing people-centred health systems--or any systems at all--requires specific measures to protect and retain healthcare workers during and after the conflict. This is particularly important when health staff are themselves the target of violence and abduction, as is often the case. This article presents the perspective of health workers who lived through conflict in four districts of northern Uganda--Pader, Gulu, Amuru, and Kitgum. These contained more than 90% of the people displaced by the decades of conflict, which ended in 2006. The article is based on 26 in-depth interviews, using a life history approach. This participatory tool encouraged participants to record key events and decisions in their lives, and to explore areas such as their decision to become a health worker, their em

SUBMITTER: Namakula J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4202915 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature