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and equipped to deliver health services than the district level
hospitals and smaller health centres. Thus, the current results
may be reflecting what is expected only at regional referral
hospitals in Uganda, and may not be generalised to healthcare
in Uganda as a whole.
Acknowledgements
We are most grateful to the Swedish institute of Social and
Working life and the Marie-Curie program for funding this
study. We are also grateful to Joseph Duku for data collection
and imputation.
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