Effects of demand-side incentives in improving the utilisation of delivery services in Oyam District in northern Uganda: a quasi-experimental study

Table 1 Basic components and services at the various levels of the Oyam District Health System

Level	Location	Population	Services provided
^aHealth Centre I (community and Village Health Teams)	Village	1000	Community-based prevention and health-promotion services
^bHealth Centre II	Parish	5000	Prevention, health promotion, and outpatient curative services, outreach
Health Centre III	Sub-County	20,000	Prevention and health-promotion, outpatient curative services, outreach, Maternity, in-patient curative services, and laboratory services
Health Centre IV	County	100,000	Emergency surgery, blood transfusion, and all services provided at HC III level
General or District Hospital (Aber Hospital = PNFP, 178 beds)	District	500,000	Consultations, in-service training, other general services, and research support to community-based healthcare programmes. In addition to services offered at the HC IV level

Sources: Health Sector Strategic Plan 2000/01–2004/05, Ministry of Health, Uganda; Health Sector Strategic Plan II 2005/06–2009/10, Ministry of Health, Uganda; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Health Service Provision in Uganda: Assessing Facility Capacity, Costs of Care, and Patient Perspectives. Seattle, WA: IHME, 2014
HC, Health Centre. ^aA HC I is the interface between the formal health system and the community. There are no physical structures, except for a network of Village Health Teams (VHT). The VHTs are non-professional health workers trained to perform several functions. They include health education, disease prevention and health promotion through community sensitisation and mobilisation for various public-health interventions. They are usually residents of the communities and serve as ‘bridges’ between the health facilities and their communities. ^bSome HC IIs were upgraded and mandated to provide basic maternity services

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