{"doc_desc":{"title":"Service Availability Mapping (SAM) Uganda 2004","idno":"DDI-UGA-MOH-SAM-2004-vFINAL","producers":[{"name":"World Health Organization","abbreviation":"WHO","role":"Documentation of assessment"}],"prod_date":"2021-11-15","version_statement":{"version":"DDI-UGA-SAM-2006-v01"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"UGA-MOH-SAM-2004-vFINAL","title":"Service Availability Mapping (SAM) Uganda 2004"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Ministry of Health"}],"production_statement":{"producers":[{"name":"World Health Organization","role":"Technical support"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Service Availability Mapping Survey [hfa\/sam]"},"version_statement":{"version":"vFINAL: Final report","version_date":"2006-01-09"},"study_info":{"abstract":"Service Availability Mapping (SAM) in Uganda was conducted by Uganda\u2019s Ministry of Health (MoH) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2004. The goal was to collect information on the availability and distribution of key health services across the country. SAM provides baseline monitoring information for the scale-up of key HIV\/AIDS-related services such as antiretroviral therapy (ART), prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, and counselling and HIV testing. \n\nThe SAM survey covered 54 districts. Four districts could not be assessed due to security concerns. Using personal digital assistants (PDAs) for data entry in the field, data were uploaded in WHO's Health Mapper and linked to a global positioning system (GPS) database containing the geographic coordinates for health facilities in the country. This information was used to produce maps for selected services. \n\nThis SAM report for Uganda covers the following indicators:\n\n1. The availability of services and service providers:\n\u2022 Human resources\n\u2022 Hospital beds\n\u2022 Blood transfusion services\n\u2022 Laboratory services\n\u2022 Communication and technology\n\u2022 Injection practices\n\u2022 Sterilization equipment\n\n2. Estimated coverage of specific interventions:\n\u2022 Percentage of facilities in the district with access to safe water\n\u2022 Percentage of facilities in the district with functioning piped water supply\n\u2022 Percentage of facilities in the district with health workers trained in safe motherhood\n\u2022 Percentage of facilities in the district with health workers trained in IMCI\n\u2022 Percentage of facilities in the district with HIV testing sites\n\u2022 Percentage of facilities in the district with TB treatment sites that had a stock out\n\n3. Facilities providing selected services\n\u2022 HIV counselling and testing\n\u2022 TB diagnostic lab facilities\n\u2022 ALERT system\n\u2022 Caesarean section\n\u2022 Emergency blood transfusion\n\u2022 Family planning","coll_dates":[{"start":"2004-03-01","end":"2004-03-31"}],"nation":[{"name":"Republic of Uganda","abbreviation":"UGA"}],"geog_coverage":"Nationally representative as well as at regional and district levels","analysis_unit":"Health facilities and district health offices","universe":"The survey covered district health offices and health facilities in 54 districts across the country.","data_kind":"Sample survey data [ssd]","notes":"The SAM is designed to support decision making by providing national and district planners with the skills and tools to routinely map services and resource availability. Designed as a district-owned system, SAM can be implemented as a standalone system or integrated into the routine health information system as a supervisory tool. As a monitoring tool, SAM is recommended every six months to one year. The frequency of implementation may be adjusted to suit program needs when utilized as a periodic evaluation tool. The Facility SAM covers availability of the health equipment, staffing, drugs and commodities, and the services offered. The District SAM covers health infrastructure, human resources, and services available in the district."},"method":{"data_collection":{"time_method":"Data was collected in October 2004","sampling_procedure":"A census of selected health facilities in the 54 districts was implemented for the district questionnaire. In Jinja, Kiboga, and Mbarara a more detailed assessment was done by visiting all health facilities after the main district-level SAM fieldwork was completed.","coll_mode":["Face-to-face [f2f]"],"research_instrument":"District Questionnaire overview:\nSection 1: Availability of services and service providers, by district\nSection 2: Estimated coverage of specific interventions, by district\nSection 3: Checklist of health facilities, by facility\nThis questionnaire is applied in all districts (or equivalent administrative unit) by health teams. The respondents of this questionnaire are district medical officers and their teams.\n\nFacility Questionnaire overview:\nSection 1: General characteristics, including infrastructure\nSection 2: General purpose equipment\nSection 3: Injection and sterilization equipment\nSection 4: Human resources\nSection 5: Trained staff\nSection 6: Drugs and commodities\nSection 7: Laboratory tests\nSection 8: Information on interventions available in the facility\nThe respondents of this questionnaire are the facility directors and their teams.\n\nThe template questionnaires are developed in English, and both questionnaires are provided as external resources.","coll_situation":"The SAM questionnaires are applied using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs); Global Positioning System (GPS) units are used to obtain the geographical coordinates of health care facilities. District teams are provided with the hardware, software and training required to assure ongoing data collection and integration into existing supervisory and monitoring practices.\n\nFour teams collected data. Each team covered 14 districts using a GPS and a PDA to collect data and satellite geo-coordinates used in the formulation of the national maps.","cleaning_operations":"The SAM data are entered using PDAs and the data in the PDAs is transferred to a computer. Once the data are in the computer, structure checking and completeness as well as checking of the double data entry and data entry errors are checked."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":[]},"distribution_statement":[]}}