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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 ...
MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE RETENTION OF NURSING FACULTY IN KIAMBU NURSE TRAINING INSTITUTIONS
(Journal of Health, Medicine and Nursing, 2018)
Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to establish the motivational factors that influence
retention of nursing faculty in Kiambu County.
Methodology: The study design was descriptive cross-sectional. The study ...
Correlates of alcohol consumption in rural western Kenya: A cross-sectional study
(BMC Psychiatry, 2017)
Background: Studies on alcohol consumption in rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. This study aimed
to determine the prevalence and determinants of alcohol consumption in rural western Kenya. The study was
conducted ...
Determinants of Uptake of Health Insurance Cover Among Adult Patients Attending Bungoma County Referral Hospital
(International Journal of Health Economics and Policy, 2017-07)
Health insurance is currently being considered as a mechanism for promoting progress to Universal health
Coverage and reducing out-of-pocket payments in many African countries including Kenya which is prompting the use ...
Influence of Maternal Health Education Delivered Through Community Health Referral Project on Antenatal Care Attendance: A Focus on Mirihini and Midoina Communities of Kilifi County, Kenya
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2016-05)
Timely delivery of effective, safe, quality and personal
services is a key pillar of health system strengthening. A
Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNeCH) Project was
initiated by the Ministry of Health and World ...
Attitudes of Primary Health Care (PHC) Gatekeepers Towards Patient Referral Policy, Machakos County, Kenya
(Science Journal of Public Health, 2016-06)
Primary Health Care (PHC) serves as the foundation for building a working healthcare system that provide good
health outcomes. The quality of PHC delivery and the decision to refer patients depends on some behavioural ...
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 ...
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 ...
Health Insurance Plan and Utilization of Health Services: The Case of Tanykina Community Health Plan; Nandi County, Kenya
(International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2016-03)
Community Based Health Insurance mechanism of Health financing targets the informal sector and the Rural who cannot
access the national social health insurance. Tanykina Community Health Plan was established to help dairy ...
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 ...