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Table 2 Type of documents mapped by the national health priority areas

From: Identifying and characterising health policy and system-relevant documents in Uganda: a scoping review to develop a framework for the development of a one-stop shop

National health priority areasa

Type of document

Policy (n = 33, 13%)

Strategy (n = 10, 4%)

Plan (n = 25, 9%)

Guidelines (n = 35, 13%)

Evidence brief for policy (n = 33, 13%)

Policy dialogue report (n = 7, 3%)

Rapid response summary (n = 47, 18%)

Other report (n = 75, 28%)

Total (N = 265)

Governance, coordination and monitoring and evaluation

1 (3%)

1 (10%)

9 (36%)

10 (29%)

6 (18%)

0

11 (23%)

36 (48%)

74 (28%)

Disease prevention, mitigation and control

15 (46%)

0

5 (20%)

11 (31%)

6 (18%)

2 (29%)

7 (15%)

17 (23%)

63 (24%)

Health education, promotion, environmental health and nutrition

5 (15%)

9 (90%)

5 (20%)

7 (20%)

3 (9%)

1 (14%)

8 (17%)

3 (4%)

41 (16%)

Maternal and child health

0

0

3 (12%)

2 (6%)

3 (9%)

1 (14%)

2 (4%)

3 (4%)

14 (5%)

Health financing

0

0

0

0

3 (9%)

0

6 (13%)

4 (5%)

13 (5%)

Health human resource

0

0

0

2 (6%)

1 (3%)

1 (14%)

3 (6%)

5 (7%)

12 (5%)

Essential medicines and supplies

2 (6.1%)

0

1 (4%)

0

3 (9.1%)

0

3 (6.4%)

2 (2.7%)

11 (4%)

Reproductive health

0

0

0

2 (5.7%)

3 (9%)

0

1 (2%)

0

6 (2%)

Early childhood development

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1 (1%)

1 (1%)

Curative services

1 (3%)

0

0

0

1 (3%)

0

1 (2%)

0

3 (1%)

Health infrastructure

1 (3%)

0

0

1 (3%)

0

0

1 (2%)

0

3 (1%)

Palliative care services

0

0

0

0

1 (3%)

0

2 (4%)

0

3 (1%)

Rehabilitation services

1 (3%)

0

0

0

0

0

1 (2%)

1 (1%)

3 (1%)

Others

7 (21%)

0

2 (8%)

0

3 (9%)

2 (29%)

1 (2%)

3 (4%)

18 (7%)

  1. aNational health priority areas in the Second National Development Plan II (2015/16–2019/2020) & Second National Health Policy (18)