{"doc_desc":{"title":"Uganda 2013","idno":"DDI-UGA-SARA-2013-vFINAL","producers":[{"name":"World Health Organization","abbreviation":"WHO","role":"Documentation of assessment"}],"prod_date":"2021-11-15","version_statement":{"version":"Final version : report"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"UGA-MOH-SARA-2013-vFINAL","title":"Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) Uganda 2013"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Ministry of Health"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"World Health Organization","role":"Technical assistance"}]},"version_statement":{"version":"vFINAL: Summary report of key findings","version_date":"2013-10-07"},"study_info":{"abstract":"The Ministry of Health of Uganda implemented a national Service Availability and Readiness Assessments (SARA) in June 2013.  The assessment aimed to measure progress and to serve as a primary data source for the analytical report prepared for midterm review of the Uganda Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan (HSSIP). The objective of the survey was to generate reliable and regular information on service delivery including service availability, such as the availability of key human and infrastructure resources, and on the readiness of health facilities to provide basic health-care interventions relating to family planning, child health services, basic and comprehensive obstetric care, HIV\/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and non-communicable diseases.\n\nThe SARA 2013 covered 209 facilities in 10 districts. \n\nThis report covers the following categories of indicators:\n1. General service availability \n\u2022 Health infrastructure density\n\u2022 Health workforce density\n\u2022 Service utilization\n\n2. General service readiness\n\u2022 Basic amenities\n\u2022 Basic equipment\n\u2022 Standard precautions for infection prevention\n\u2022 Diagnostic capacity\n\u2022 Essential medicines\n\n3. Service specific availability and readiness\n\u2022 Family planning \n\u2022 Antenatal care\n\u2022 Basic obstetric care \n\u2022 Comprehensive obstetric care \n\u2022 Child immunization \n\u2022 Preventive and curative services for children under five years of age\n\u2022 Adolescent health \n\u2022 Essential medicines and commodities\n\u2022 Maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (MNCAH)\n\u2022 Malaria services\n\u2022 Tuberculosis \n\u2022 HIV counselling and testing\n\u2022 HIV\/AIDS care and support\n\u2022  HIV\/AIDS Antiretroviral (ART)\n\u2022 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT)\n\u2022 Sexually-transmitted infections \n\u2022 Communicable diseases\n\u2022 Diabetes\n\u2022 Cardiovascular disease services\n\u2022 Chronic respiratory disease management\n\u2022 Non-communicable diseases\n\u2022 Basic surgical services\n\u2022 Blood transfusion\n\u2022 Advanced diagnostic\n\u2022 Comprehensive surgery\n\u2022 High level diagnostic equipment","coll_dates":[{"start":"2013-05-01","end":"2013-06-21"}],"nation":[{"name":"Uganda","abbreviation":"UGA"}],"geog_coverage":"Nationally representative as well as at regional and district levels","analysis_unit":"Health facilities and district health offices","universe":"A sample of 233 health facilities (including both public and private sector facilities) in 10 districts, plus all regional referral hospitals were selected for inclusion in the survey.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The SARA survey is designed to generate a set of core indicators on key inputs and outputs of the health system, which can be used to measure progress in health system strengthening over time. The SARA focuses on three main areas: service availability, general service readiness and service-specific readiness.\n\nA basic approach to SARA is to collect data that are comparable both across countries and within countries (i.e. across regions and\/or districts) using a standard core questionnaire developed by WHO in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Usually, a country adopts the standard core questionnaire with adaptations to certain elements such as types of facilities, managing authority of facilities, national guidelines for services, staffing categories and national policies for medicines (e.g. for tuberculosis, HIV\/AIDS). The SARA survey requires visits to health facilities with data collection based on key informant interviews and observation of key items. The survey can either be carried out as a sample or a census; the choice between these methodologies will depend on a number of elements including the country's resources, the objectives of the survey and the availability of a master facility list (MFL)."},"method":{"data_collection":{"sampling_procedure":"A sample of 233 health facilities (including both public and private sector facilities) in 10 districts, plus all regional referral hospitals were selected for inclusion in the survey.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"The SARA core questionnaires overview:\nSection 1: Cover page\nSection 2: Staffing\nSection 3: Inpatient and observation beds\nSection 4: Infrastructure\nSection 5: Available services\nSection 6: Diagnostics\nSection 7: Medicines and commodities\nSection 8: Interviewers observations","coll_situation":"The field staff was trained in May 2013 on the data collection methodology, questionnaire content, and electronic data collection tools. Field work took place over a period of three weeks in June 2013.","method_notes":"All results were weighted to reflect the distribution of health facilities in the country. The 2013 sample is sufficiently large to allow the disaggregation of results by facility type and managing authority \n(public\/private)."}},"data_access":[]}}