Stakeholder perceptions on patient-centered care at primary health care level in rural eastern Uganda: A qualitative inquiry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient-centered care (PCC) offers opportunities for African health systems to improve quality of care. Nonetheless, PCC continually faces implementation challenges. In 2015, Uganda introduced PCC as a concept in their national quality improvement guidelines. In order to investigate whether and how this is implemented in practice, this study aims to identify relevant stakeholders' views on the current quality of primary health care services and their understanding of PCC. This is an important step in understanding how the concept of PCC can be implemented in a resource constrained, sub-Saharan context like Uganda.

Methods

This qualitative study was conducted in Uganda at national, district and facility level, with a focus on three public and three private health c

SUBMITTER: Waweru E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6713356 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature