The purpose of this study is to explain the sustainability of International Cooperation in the health sector by analyzing the case of Uganda with the Multiple Equilibria Model.
Sustainability of health programs is important for developing countries...
The purpose of this study is to explain the sustainability of International Cooperation in the health sector by analyzing the case of Uganda with the Multiple Equilibria Model.
Sustainability of health programs is important for developing countries since their people are one of crucial factors for economic growth.
Securing the health of citizen is possible only if the appropriate health service is provided throughout their life cycle. The lack of basic health service may hinder citizen’s economic activities so that they cannot break out of a vicious cycle of poverty. To guarantee the sustainability in developing countries, the research of their govervance and policies is essential.
By examining the successfully implemented case, it is necessary to figure out the success factor and apply it to new health programs that will be implemented.
The successful health program in Uganda is ‘Arrest and decrease of the spread of HIV/AIDS.’ Uganda is regarded as a country that succeed the policy of HIV/AIDS. There are two success factors. The improvement of group awareness using the perception change based on the sociocultural background and cultural access.
It can be explained by the Multiple Equilibria Model. Based on the Multiple Equilibria Model, if someone is expected to act in some way, he really acts that way. Therefore, inside the group people act as others want and affected from the group, the equilibrium of socially formed behavior moves changing the behaviour of individuals naturally. Since Uganada has a high fertility rate, particularly adolescent fertility rate, Maternal child health service is necessary.
It is important to see the delivery and family planning as a systematic commun behaviour of community and considered as a equilibrium.
Awareness and individual’s behavior, we have to move the equilibrium from expected behavior to real behavior and stress that the behavior of pregnant and delivery has to be changed. Community people has to feel this pressure and change their behavior to practice their family planning by themselves. It is moved the stable equilibriums.