Hospital Acquired Infections

Contracting an infection while in a healthcare setting challenges the basic idea that health care is meant to improve people's health which therefore contradicts with its main purpose. The occurrence of Hospital Acquired Infections is mostly felt in resource poor countries in Africa with an already overstrained health workforce and a high burden of community-acquired infections. Therefore this book provides information on adults' knowledge, attitudes and practices towards Hospital Acquired Infections of Budumbuli community in Jinja district, Uganda and also examines the Hospital Acquired Infections risk behaviors and measures undertaken to prevent or control Hospital Acquired Infections. In both the qualitative and quantitative findings, majority of the respondents expressed knowledge on Hospital Acquired Infections but the gap still lies in people's attitudes and practices. The analysis should therefore, help shed some light on the new and existing knowledge, attitudes and practices towards Hospital Acquired Infections and adopting feasible approaches to reduce infections acquired from hospitals in Budumbuli community and the country at large.