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Rejection of an innovation: health information management training materials in east Africa.

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A shift towards decentralization in many low-income countries has meant more skills are demanded of primary health care managers, including data and information handling at all levels of the health care system. Ministries of Health are changing their ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2002Dec in Journal: Health Policy Plan (Language : eng)

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1. Health Policy Plan. 2002 Dec;17(4):354-61

Rejection of an innovation: health information management training materials in east Africa.

Gladwin J, Dixon RA, Wilson TD

Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. jean.gladwin@LSHTM.ac.uk

A shift towards decentralization in many low-income countries has meant more skills are demanded of primary health care managers, including data and information handling at all levels of the health care system. Ministries of Health are changing their central reporting health information systems to health management information systems with emphasis on managers utilizing information at the point of collection. This paper reports on a research study to investigate the introduction of new information management strategies intended to promote an informational approach to management at the operational health service level in low-income countries. It aims to understand the process taking place when externally developed training materials (PHC MAP), which are intended to strengthen health management information systems, are introduced to potential users in an east African country. A case study has been undertaken and this research has demonstrated that the dynamic equilibrium approach to organizational change is applicable to the introduction of new information management strategies and management approaches in low-income countries. Although PHC MAP developers envisaged a technical innovation needing implementation, potential users saw the situation as one of organizational change. Contributions to theory have been made and many implications for introducing new information systems or the informational approach to management are identified. This theoretical framework could also facilitate the introduction of future information management innovations and would allow practitioners to perceive the introduction of information management innovations as one of organizational change that needs to be managed. Consequently, issues that may facilitate or inhibit adoption could be identified in advance.

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First Name	LastName	Initials
J	Gladwin	J
R A	Dixon	RA
T D	Wilson	TD

Affiliation: Health Services Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. jean.gladwin@LSHTM.ac.uk

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Administrative Personnel - education
Africa, Eastern
Ambulatory Care Information Systems - organization & administration
Developing Countries
Diffusion of Innovation
Health Services Research
Humans
Information Management - education
Organizational Case Studies
Organizational Innovation
Politics
Poverty
Primary Health Care - organization & administration
Teaching - methods
Teaching Materials

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