Antony Odek, Oloo James Alan

Challenges Facing Home Based Care Programs in Botswana

Models of home based care programs, challenges and recommendations

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Produktbeschreibung

Community Home-Based Care (CHBC) is a program that offers health services to support the terminally ill in the home (WHO, 1999). The program has come into force as a result of a high rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Least Developed Countries (Itano, 2003). Rapid increase in HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses has implications for the National Health Systems ability to cope with the provision of health care services for both the HIV/AIDS and other patients. This paper is an extended literature review and it identifies and discusses challenges facing CHBC programs in Botswana. The review gives attention to issues like poverty, inadequate medical facilities, poor infrastructure and socio-cultural factors which affect quality of services in the CHBC programs in Botswana. The findings indicate that poverty, high cost of community care, inadequate medical facilities, poor infrastructures and socio-cultural issues have threatened the sustainability of CHBC programs in Botswana. The recommendations and the options given can provide basis for further research aimed at getting solutions to CHBC challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 155g
• ISBN-13: 9783838387833
• ISBN-10: 383838783X
• Artikelnr.: 31180558

Autorenporträt

Antony Wando Odek completed his B Ed (History and Kiswahili) at the Moi University in Kenya in 1997. He went on to obtain Masters of Arts-Development Studies (University of Botswana) and a certificate in Sexuality and Gender issues in Nigeria. Currently in the final part of his PhD research in Sociology (Moi University, Kenya). Odek is a lecturer.