Full Description
This Open Access book addresses the need for rehabilitation services for people impacted by Major Limb Loss in Low and Middle Income Countries. It focuses on a Complex Intervention study in Uganda supporting the provision of affordable and accessible prosthetic services in a public referral hospital. The book demonstrates the impact that overwhelming dependency on overseas support has had on service development and the delivery of universal health coverage and provides an evidence base to support a change in the contribution that overseas assistance makes to health systems planning.
Contents
Chapter 1 Why Rehabilitation?.- Chapter 2 Patients' Journeys to Amputation (1): Emergency Care Services.- Chapter 3 Patients' Journeys to Amputation (2): Long Term Conditions.- Chapter 4 Accessing Prosthetic Services in Contexts of Donor-Dependency.- Chapter 5 Leaving No One behind? The Essential Role of the Public Sector in the Delivery of Universal Health Care.- Chapter 6 Promoting Free Public Prosthetic Services through Social Enterprise: The Ninsiima Rehabilitation Centre.- Chapter 7 Digital technologies to support the building of an evidence base on 'what works' in Uganda: A case study in upper limb prosthetics.- Chapter 8 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations.
