Promoting Universal Health Coverage for Amputees through Social Enterprise and Engineering Innovation

通过社会企业和工程创新促进截肢者的全民健康覆盖

• 批准号: MR/V015214/1
• 负责人: Robert Ssekitoleko
• 金额: $ 22.54万
• 依托单位: Makerere University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FV015214%2F1
• 关键词: Promoting; Universal; Health; Coverage; Amputees

This proposal is focused on extending the international commitment to universal health coverage (UHC) to people suffering limb loss in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. It builds on multi-disciplinary EPSRC- and MRC-funded research establishing the prevalence of limb loss; service-users' experiences of attempting to access and receive services and innovation in the design of 'Fit-For-Purpose' body-powered prostheses. This research has evidenced the need for more comprehensive and structural health systems change focused on the development of an integrated supply-chain system servicing regionally distributed service outlets. At present there is no system to manage and regulate the quality and costs of imports of devices and components from overseas. International donors have played a major role in defining the geography and characteristics of services with an emphasis on internal conflict in Northern Uganda. Since the end of this conflict funding has ceased and underfunded services do not meet needs resulting from significant foreign refugee flows into the West and growing domestic needs arising from Road Traffic Accidents, domestic violence, cancer and diabetes. The Ugandan Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed the use of Public-Private-Partnerships in health system strengthening. Our proposal will design and test a PPP model as the basis for a more integrated and distributed partnership model to deliver universal health coverage for amputees. National Medical Stores is the sole provider of supplies into public hospitals. With the exception of the National Referral Hospital it is not supplying orthopaedic workshops with essentialsupplies and patients who do access these facilities are subject to user fees. Joint Medical Stores (JMS) is an established (not-for-profit) provider of medical supplies to the not-for profit sector. Our proposal focuses on building a PPP platform to support a social enterprise model for supplies management at national level. This will include a more transparent approach to international sourcing combined with efforts to reduce dependency on foreign supplies through local manufacture. We will exploit the potential of an upper limb socket designed by the EPSRC team for local manufacture and task-shifting. We propose a second-level PPP based on a model designed in Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital to support supply chain management during COVID-19. A recently signed PPP involving an established health partnership with Knowledge for Change, a registered NGO and JMS will design and test a model to promote service-focused supply chain agility at a public hospital located in close proximity to fast-growing refugee camps.Our long-term aims are to use our innovations in prosthesis design, coupled with fine-resolution modelling of demand, to pilot new, distributed prosthesis service models, characterised through our collaboration with JMS. We propose to pilot a Public private partnership model to help support the more effective integration of foreign aid with one or more of the new service models. Towards the end of the project, we will bring together the key stakeholders to develop a larger scale project which will explore how we can build on the lessons learnt in this study.Our specific objectives are:1. Supply Chain Innovation: Co-design and test the contribution that a Public-Private-Partnership approach can make to sustainable supply chain integration for prosthetics componentry and repair services.2. Demonstrate the role that technological innovation can have on prosthetic services: Test the potential for local manufacture and supply-chain entry of a user-adjustable, locally repairable socket design.3. ODA Innovation: Generate the evidence-base for a new model for Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) based on principles of partnership, social enterprise and sustainability

该提案的重点是将全民健康覆盖（UHC）的国际承诺扩展到低收入和中等收入国家的肢体丧失者。它建立在多学科EPSRC和MRC资助的研究基础上，建立了肢体丧失的流行率;服务用户尝试获得和接受服务的经验以及“适合目的”身体动力假肢设计的创新。这项研究表明，需要对保健系统进行更全面和结构性的改革，重点是建立一个为分布在各区域的服务网点提供服务的综合供应链系统。目前，没有一个系统来管理和规范从海外进口的设备和部件的质量和成本。国际捐助者在确定服务的地理位置和特点方面发挥了重要作用，重点是乌干达北方的内部冲突。自这场冲突结束以来，资金已经停止，资金不足的服务无法满足大量外国难民涌入西部所产生的需求以及道路交通事故、家庭暴力、癌症和糖尿病所产生的日益增长的国内需求。乌干达卫生部建议在加强卫生系统方面采用公私伙伴关系。我们的提案将设计和测试一个公私伙伴关系模式，作为一个更加综合和分布式的伙伴关系模式的基础，为截肢者提供全民健康覆盖。国家医疗商店是公立医院唯一的供应商。除国家转诊医院外，它不向矫形车间提供必要的用品，使用这些设施的病人要缴纳使用费。联合医药商店（JMS）是一家向非营利部门提供医疗用品的老牌（非营利）供应商。我们的建议专注于建立一个PPP平台，以支持国家层面的供应管理社会企业模式。这将包括对国际采购采取更透明的办法，同时努力通过当地制造减少对外国供应的依赖。我们将利用EPSRC团队设计的上肢插座的潜力，进行本地制造和任务转移。我们提出了一个基于Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital设计的模型的二级PPP，以支持COVID-19期间的供应链管理。最近签署的PPP涉及与Knowledge for Change建立的健康合作伙伴关系，注册的非政府组织和JMS将设计和测试一个模型，以促进靠近快速增长的难民营的公立医院以服务为中心的供应链敏捷性。我们的长期目标是利用我们在假肢设计方面的创新，加上精细的需求建模，试点新的分布式假肢服务模式，通过我们与JMS的合作。我们建议试行公私伙伴关系模式，以帮助支持更有效地将外国援助与一种或多种新的服务模式相结合。在研究接近尾声时，我们会召集主要的持份者，发展一个更大型的研究计划，探讨如何汲取研究所得的经验。供应链创新：共同设计和测试公私合作伙伴关系方法对假肢组件和维修服务的可持续供应链整合的贡献。展示技术创新对假肢服务的作用：测试用户可调节、可本地修复的接受腔设计的本地制造和供应链进入的潜力。ODA创新：为基于伙伴关系、社会企业和可持续性原则的海外发展援助新模式提供实证基础