Use of information and communication technology and retention of health workers in rural post-war conflict Northern Uganda: findings from a qualitative study

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• 作者：Walter Onen Yagos ; Geoffrey Tabo Olok…
• 关键词：ICT usage ; Health workers retention ; Rural health centres ; Post ; war conflict ; Northern Uganda
• 刊名：BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：405KB
• 刊物主题：Health Informatics; Information Systems and Communication Service; Management of Computing and Information Systems;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6947
• 卷排序：17

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BackgroundInformation and communication technologies have become a vital infrastructural asset for use in the retention of rural health workers. However, little is known about the potential influence of ICT use, perceptions of health workers on ICT in healthcare delivery, and contribution of ICT to health care providers’ retention in rural and remote areas in rural post-war and conflict situations of northern Uganda.