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International Journal of Community & Family Medicine Volume 1 (2016), Article ID 1:IJCFM-110, 7 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/110
Research Article
Health System Preparedness for Newborn Care: A Health Facility Assessment in Rural Uganda

Christine Kayemba Nalwadda1,3,* Göran Tomson3, Juliet Kiguli1,2, Faith Namugaya1, Gertrude Namazzi1,2, Sarah Namutamba2, Harriet Nambuya2, Abner Tagoola2, Stefan Peterson1,2,3,4# and Peter Waiswa1,2,3#

1School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
2Uganda Newborn Study, Iganga- Mayuge Health Demographic Surveillance Site, Kampala,Uganda
3Health System and Policy, Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, SE-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden
4International Maternal and Child Health Unit, Department of Women and Children Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
#Senior authors contributed equally
Dr. Christine Kayemba Nalwadda, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University. P .O. Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda, Tel: +256 772 495 169; E-mail: cnalwadda@musph.ac.ug
21 January 2016; 26 May 2016; 28 May 2016
Nalwadda CK, Tomson G, Kiguli J, Namugaya F, Namazzi G, et al. (2016) Health System Preparedness for Newborn Care: A Health Facility Assessment in Rural Uganda. Int J Community Fam Med 1: 110. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/110
This study was funded in part by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and Makerere University and Save the Children (USA) through a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that sponsored UNEST. Also partial funding provided by the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship award, offered by the African Population and Health Research Center, in partnership with the International Development Research Center.
© 2016 Nalwadda et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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