Paula Akugizibwe
Biographic Data
| ID | 7788026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Akugizibwe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Akugizibwe |
| SIGNATURE | AKUGIZIBWE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0932-3183 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Uptake and effectiveness of a mobile application for real-time reporting and quality assurance of decentralized Sars-CoV-2 testing in Uganda
Background: Effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic required rapid expansion of diagnosis. The introduction of antigen tests presented an opportunity to decentralize testing, but raised challenges with ensuring accurate and timely reporting of testing data, which is essential to guide the response. Digital solutions can help address this challenge and provide more efficient means of monitoring and quality assurance. Methods: Uganda's existi…
Public health implications of changing patterns of recruitment into the South African mining industry, 1973–2012
These changes portend further externalisation of the burden of mining lung disease to home communities, as miners, particularly from the gold sector, leave the industry. The implications for health, surveillance and health services of the growing number of miners hired as contractors need further research, as does the health experience of female miners. Overall, the information in this report can be used for projection of disease burden and direc…
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Public health implications of changing patterns of recruitment into the South African mining industry, 1973–2012
These changes portend further externalisation of the burden of mining lung disease to home communities, as miners, particularly from the gold sector, leave the industry. The implications for health, surveillance and health services of the growing number of miners hired as contractors need further research, as does the health experience of female miners. Overall, the information in this report can be used for projection of disease burden and direc…
Uptake and effectiveness of a mobile application for real-time reporting and quality assurance of decentralized Sars-CoV-2 testing in Uganda
Background: Effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic required rapid expansion of diagnosis. The introduction of antigen tests presented an opportunity to decentralize testing, but raised challenges with ensuring accurate and timely reporting of testing data, which is essential to guide the response. Digital solutions can help address this challenge and provide more efficient means of monitoring and quality assurance. Methods: Uganda's existi…
Medicine (2 works) · Biostatistics (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing (1 work) · Dashboard (1 work) · Data quality (1 work) · Data science (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Environmental health (1 work)