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“Helping my neighbour is like giving a loan…” –the role of social relations in chronic illness in rural Uganda

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, November 2017
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Title
“Helping my neighbour is like giving a loan…” –the role of social relations in chronic illness in rural Uganda
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, November 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12913-017-2666-5
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Jovita Amurwon, Flora Hajdu, Dominic Bukenya Yiga, Janet Seeley

Abstract

Understanding individuals' experience of accessing care and tending to various other needs during chronic illness in a rural context is important for health systems aiming to increase access to healthcare and protect poor populations from unreasonable financial hardship. This study explored the impact on households of access to free healthcare and how they managed to meet needs during chronic illness. Rich data from the life stories of individuals from 22 households in rural south-western Uganda collected in 2009 were analysed. The data revealed that individuals and households depend heavily on their social relations in order to meet their needs during illness, including accessing the free healthcare and maintaining vital livelihood activities. The life stories illustrated ways in which households draw upon social relations to achieve the broader social protection necessary to prevent expenses becoming catastrophic, but also demonstrated the uncertainty in relying solely on informal relations. Improving access to healthcare in a rural context greatly depends on broader social protection. Thus, the informal social protection that already exists in the form of strong reciprocal social relations must be acknowledged, supported and included in health policy planning.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 42 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 21%
Librarian 4 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 12 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 12 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 7%
Computer Science 1 2%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 2%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 14 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 January 2018.
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#6,488,604
of 23,007,887 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,144
of 7,704 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#108,584
of 331,173 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#50
of 108 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,007,887 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
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