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Community participation in the decentralised district health systems in Tanzania: why do some health committees perform better than others?

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dc.creator Bukagile, Godfrey
dc.creator Maluka, Stephen Oswald
dc.date 2019-07-08T09:44:44Z
dc.date 2019-07-08T09:44:44Z
dc.date 2016-04
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T08:35:14Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T08:35:14Z
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/315
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/79512
dc.description Over the past two decades, community participation has emerged as an important dimension within decentralised district healthcare systems. In Tanzania, initiatives to strengthen community participation have focused on the formation of the health committees. Studies have reported variations in the performance of the committees. An exploratory case study design focusing on two districts was adopted to explore the differences in practice of the health facility committees in a well‐functioning district and one that is not. In both study districts, the committees were in place. The most common activities of the health committees were assisting the clinic in day‐to‐day running. The health committees' influence on policy, planning and budgeting was limited. Managerial and leadership practices of the district health managers, including effective supervision and personal initiatives of the top‐district health officials coupled with
dc.format application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education Journal
dc.relation Volume 31;Issue No: 2
dc.subject health planning and management
dc.title Community participation in the decentralised district health systems in Tanzania: why do some health committees perform better than others?
dc.type Article


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