Correlates to Shared Decision Making in Healthcare In Uganda

The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Act, chapter 272, provides for the ‘right to treatment based on clinical need regardless of one’s ability to pay; participation in health care decisions; accessing information about Health care worker providing care, patients’ diseases and treatment; respect, dignity and privacy’. Additionally, The Uganda Patients’ Charter of 2009 describes a ‘set of rights, responsibilities and duties under which a person can seek and receive health care service and empowers patients to responsibly demand for quality health care and actively participate in their care at public facilities’