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Effectiveness of Ng’adakarin Bamocha model in improving access to ante-natal and delivery services among nomadic pastoralist communities of Turkana West and Turkana North Sub-Counties of Kenya
(Pan African Medical Journal., 2015-04)Introduction: Access to maternal and child health care services among the nomadic pastoralists community in Kenya and African continent in general is unacceptably low. In Turkana, only 18.1% of the women had seen a nurse ... -
Effectiveness of the Devolved Primary Health Care Gatekeeper System in Machakos County, Kenya
(American Journal of Health Research, 2016-07)The low health outcomes and inequities problems in developing countries are due to ineffective gate keeping at the Primary Health Care (PHC) level, non-adherence to policy and dysfunctional health infrastructure. This study ... -
Effects of Health Insurance Schemes on Utilization of Healthcare Services and Financial Risk Protection
(Public Health Research, 2020-09)Universal health coverage (UHC) assures healthcare utilization and financial risk protection. Health insurance schemes are highly variable in the scope of the benefits package, the magnitude of premiums, deductibles, ... -
Efficiency and Organizational Arrangements in the Utilization of Resources at Primary Health Care (PHC) in Machakos County, Kenya
(International Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 2017-05)Health care is costly and there is need for rational use of health care resources for the world to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). The preventive Primary Health Care (PHC) service is cheaper than the Secondary ... -
Evaluation of Alcohol Screening and Community-Based Brief Interventions in Rural Western Kenya: A Quasi-Experimental Study
(Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire),, 2018-01)Aims: To assess the effectiveness of community-based alcohol brief interventions (ABI) implemented by community-health workers with and without motivational talks (MT) by former drinkers, in reducing harmful and hazardous ... -
Factors Affecting Medical Equipment Utilization in Health Service Delivery in Mandera County Referral Hospital
(IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS), 2021-08)Health service delivery in Kenya and Mandera County Referral Hospital (MCRH) in particular has been hampered by low utilization medical equipment. This study sought to investigate factors that influence the utilization ... -
Factors affecting the utilization of routine immunization coverage of children under two years in Somalia: a case of Garowe town
(Stratford Peer Reviewed Journals and Book Publishing Journal of Medicine, Nursing & Public Health, 2020-08)The purpose of this study was to interrogate the determinants of the utilization of routine immunization coverage for children under 2 years in Garowe town. The specific objectives of the study was to determine caregiver, ... -
Factors Associated With Anaemia among Pregnant Women in Mandera County Referral Hospital, Kenya
(International Academic Journal of Nutrition & Food Sciences, 2020-12)Anaemia is a nutrition-related disease that mostly affects pregnant women and is among the most common diseases associated with deficiency that are observed globally, affecting more than a quarter of the global population. ... -
FACTORS INFLUENCING COLLECTION OF BLOOD DONOR TEST RESULTS IN NAIROI COUNTY – A CASE STUDY OF NAIROBI REGIONAL BLOOD TRANSFUSION CENTER
(Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2018)Background: The Kenya National Blood Transfusion Services screens all donated blood for HIV, Hepatitis B&C and syphilis with each blood donor being informed of testing of his or her donated blood and availability of test ... -
Factors Influencing Delays of Elective Surgical Cases in Private Health Facilities in Kenya
(Global scientific Journals., 2020-07)Delays of elective surgical operations are a major concern for all healthcare institutions and their resolution would be key in reducing wastes and improving workflow efficiency. However, achieving efficiency in the ... -
Factors Influencing Delays of Elective Surgical Cases in Private Health Facilities in Kenya
(Global Scientific Journals, 2020-07)Delays of elective surgical operations are a major concern for all healthcare institutions and their resolution would be key in reducing wastes and improving workflow efficiency. However, achieving efficiency in the ... -
Factors Influencing Delivery of Quality Health Care in Kasarani Sub County
(Journal of Medicine, Nursing & Public Health,, 2021-08)Quality in health service delivery is key in ensuring patient satisfaction since delivering quality service has a direct influence on the customer satisfaction and management outcome. An assessment done in 2019 using Kenya ... -
Factors influencing Healthcare Waste Management System in Machakos County, Kenya
(Health Systems Management Journal, 2019-07)Machakos County health facilities have poor healthcare waste segregation, treatment and disposal practices; patients, health workers including waste handlers and the general population are exposed to risks of needle stick ... -
FACTORS INFLUENCING HIV/AIDS CLIENT SATISFACTION AT COMPREHENSIVE CARE CENTRES IN WAJIR COUNTY, KENYA
(European Journal of Public Health Studies, 2021)Service delivery is one of the core pillars of health systems building blocks and client satisfaction is one of the parameters that is used to assess the status of services offered in an institution. This study investigated ... -
Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction among Health Workers in Tanzania: A Case of Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre Referral Hospital
(International Journal of professional Practice (IJPP), 2020)A well-functioning health system is composed of six building blocks. Health workers are one among the six blocks. Human resource for health is vital for effective and efficient delivery of health care. However, there has ... -
Factors Influencing Rational Drug Use in Public Hospitals among Doctors and Pharmacists in Meru County
(International Journal of professional practice (IJPP), 2019-05)Rational use of medicines requires that patients receives affordable, right drug and dose for the adequate period of time. Irrational drug use is influenced by lack of essential drugs, lack of training and weak implementation ... -
Factors Influencing Rational Use Of Psychotropic Medicines In Mathari National Teaching And Referral Hospital In Nairobi, Kenya
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications,, 2021-08)The World Health Organization recommends a focus on the six building blocks of a health system in order to strength health systems. The focus of this study was medicines, vaccines and technologies, with rational use of ... -
Factors Influencing Reporting of Medical Errors Amongst Nurses in Pediatric Wards in Three Teaching And Referral Hospitals in Nairobi Kenya
(Journal of Nursing and Practice, 2022)Service delivery is among the six health system strengthening pillars by World Health Organization. Successful health services bring about effective, quality, safe, personal and non-personal health care actions or ... -
Factors influencing uptake of antenatal care in Taita Taveta County, Kenya
(Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2019)Purpose: The general purpose of the study was to establish factors influencing uptake of antenatal care among pregnant women. Methodology: The study was conducted in TaitaTaveta County, Kenya, which had a population of ...