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Factors influencing rational drug use in public hospitals among doctors and pharmacists in Meru County
(KeMU, 2019-09)
Access to essential medicines, vaccines and medical technologies is the anchor pillar in this study. Medical products must be of assured quality, safety, effective, scientifically sound and cost effective. Rational use of ...
Assessment of health workers perinatal knowledge and practices related to service delivery in Makueni County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-09)
A health system has six interdependent and interrelated pillars: health workforce; service delivery; information; financing; medical products, vaccines and technologies; leadership and governance. This study addressed ...
Influence of structural arrangement on provision of quality primary care health services in public health centers in Nakuru County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-08)
The Alma Ata Declaration of 1978 emphasized the importance of primary care as an approach to achieve health for all. Kenya has gradually expanded primary care health service delivery to increase access and comprehensiveness ...
Determinants of a functional referral system in Kisumu County, Kenya. Patients’ perspective.
(KeMU, 2019-09)
Most referral health facilities are faced with challenges ranging from congestion of patients at these health facilities, limited resources both human and material to deal with the voluminous clients, slow rate of service ...
Factors influencing uptake of antenatal care in Taita Taveta County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-09)
49% of pregnant women are able to make four or more ANC visits in Sub Saharan part of Africa. General objective of the study was to find out factors influencing uptake of ANC in public health facilities in Taita Taveta ...
Work-life balance practices for scaling up health workers productivity in public hospitals in Kenya: a case of Mandera County
(KeMU, 2019-09)
The delivery of health interventions requires skilled and adequately supported health personnel. Work-life balance is the maintenance of a health workers balance between responsibilities at work and at home. The inadequacies ...
Assessment of factors affecting healthcare waste management system in Machakos County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-09)
In general, most local authorities in Kenya have been unable to cope up with the segregation, the treatment and methods of waste disposal especially healthcare waste. Health facilities in Machakos County have poor practices ...
Determinants of public primary health facilities preparedness for service delivery in Nyandarua County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-09)
The Kenyan primary health care (PHC) system is currently going through a major transformation, especially in the effort of actualizing the universal health coverage which is part of the “Big Four” national government agenda ...
Performance of trained clinical officers in reproductive health service delivery through task shifting: opportunities and its challenges in Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-09)
The world is experiencing a chronic shortage of well-trained health workers with a global deficit of doctors, nurses and midwives being approximately 2.4 million, and with low- and middle income countries having acute human ...
Use of district health information system data to facilitate decision making in Uasin- gishu sub county hospitals, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-09)
Comprehensive and dependable information is basis for making decisions. WHO building blocks: services delivery, health information, products and technologies, health workforce, financing and governance. Aim of study was ...