Financing and Health Service Delivery in Uganda Government Hospitals . A case of Masindi General Hospital

Abstract

The study captures the major purpose of the study which was to assess the effect of financing onto health Service delivery in Masindi government hospital; to determine how primary health care non-wage fund affects health service delivery in Masindi government hospital, to investigate the extent to which primary health care wage fund affects health service delivery in Masindi government hospital, to assess the effect of primary health care development fund on health service delivery in in Masindi government hospital. This study adopted a design of descriptive cross-sectional techniques in which both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. At a population of 120 respondents. The quantitative data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS version 16) that was used to generate descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages in form of tables and charts. Pearson’s correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used to determine the strength of the relationships among the variables of the study. Qualitative data was analyzed using content analysis. Findings revealed that due to, Pearson correlation coefficient value is 0.712 this shows that there is a strong positive relationship between PHC Non-wage fund and health service delivery in Masindi government hospital. Also, the P-Value is 0.00 which is less than 0.05 this shows that the correlation between service delivery and PHC Non – wage is significant. Thus, in one or the other PHC non-wage funds have significant relations with service delivery in Masindi government hospital, Pearson correlation coefficient value is 0.516, this shows that a moderate relationship between service delivery and PHC wage fund, PHC Development fund leads to 15% increase in health service delivery in Masindi government hospital and looking at P-value is less than 0.05 the level of significant which implies the coefficient on the PHC development fund significant. The “Beta Standardized Coefficients” is 0.204 which is positive this shows that PHC development variables positively affects service delivery in Masindi government hospital