Modernization and development: impact on health care decision-making in Uganda
Uganda has faced numerous challenges over the past 50 years from overcoming political conflict and civil unrest, to rapid population growth, to combating the HIV epidemic and ever-growing health needs. Women in Uganda have had a major role to play in the health of families and communities. The researchers' purpose in this study, undertaken in rural Uganda, was to
- a) identify a people-centered definition of development,
- b) compare it to the process of modernization, and
- c) investigate how these processes have changed the role women play in decision-making, in areas directly and indirectly related to their health and that of ...