School of Medicine and Health Sciences: Recent submissions
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Influence of Accountability on Health System Responsiveness: A Case of Pumwani Maternity Hospital Nairobi, Kenya
(KeMU, 2021-09)Health and healthcare are essential to functioning of a society. While the government of Kenya is constitutionally mandated to ensure highest level of healthcare for all of its citizens, a number of hurdles remain on the ... -
Factors Influencing Hiv/Aids Client Satisfaction at Comprehensive Care Centres in Wajir County, Kenya
(KeMu, 2021-09)Service delivery is a key pillar of the 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. ... -
Factors Affecting Medical Equipment Utilization in Health Service Delivery in Mandera County Referral Hospital, Kenya
(KeMU, 2021-09)Medical equipment utilization is critical to health service delivery in the health sectors globally and locally in Kenya. In Mandera county referral hospital, the major problem is poorly functioning health system due to ... -
Influence of Direct Government Health Funds on Service Delivery in Primary Healthcare Facilities in Meru County, Kenya
(KeMu, 2021-09)ABSTRACT Health care financing is a worldwide issue that affects all governments, including those in developed countries. In third-world countries with faltering economies and competing demands for financial ... -
Factors Influencing Upward Referral System of Patients in Nairobi County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2021-09)The right to health is the fundamental requirement of every human being. Additionally, accessible health services in the shortest possible time leads to quality health outcomes, which is a priority area in the service ... -
Determinants of Maternal Child Health Commodities Management in Public Health Facilities in Meru County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2021-09)Health systems have failed in past epidemics to maintain routine essential services in health. People, resources, and essential supplies all diverted to address health emergency, sometimes resulting in lack of important ... -
Factors Influencing Utilization of Healthcare Services During Covid-19 Pandemic Among Pregnant Women and Caregivers With Children Under Two Years in Rongo Subcounty, Migori County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2021-09)Health systems have failed in past epidemics to maintain routine essential services in health. People, resources, and essential supplies all diverted to address health emergency, sometimes resulting in lack of important ... -
Effects of Work Ethics Practices on Performance of Health Workers: A Case of Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital
(KeMU, 2021-09)Health systems are weakened by lack of work ethics practices across many parts of the developing world and this slows progress in management of diseases and the global health agenda for access of health care service to ... -
Factors Influencing Breastfeeding Practices among Somali Women: A Case Study of Bulla Adaan, Garissa County
(2021-04)Breastfeeding has always been the ideal feeding practice for infants. Despite efforts by the county and national government as well as non-governmental organisations, breastfeeding uptake in Garissa County was low. The ... -
External and internal factors affecting management of hospital drug formularies by health facilities in Nairobi
(KeMU, 2012-07)The use of formularies in drugs management is a widely accepted practice and Kenya has adopted the World Health Organization (WHO) drug formulary model to develop its own formularies or essential drug lists. This study ... -
Factors Associated With Anaemia among Pregnant Women: A Case Study of Mandera County Referral Hospital
(KeMU, 2020-11)Anaemia is the most common medical related disorder during pregnancy, and has become a major health related problem in a large number of developing nations, mainly where deficiency in nutrition, worm infestation and malaria ... -
Evaluation of the Effect of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy among Children Living with HIV in OLA During Children’s Hospital-Freetown, Sierra Leone
(KeMU, 2020-11)The second biggest killer disease triggered by a single infectious agent and the leading cause of mortality for children living with HIV (CLHIV) is Tuberculosis (TB), rendering it an significant public health concern that ... -
Determinants of Non-Compliance to Iron Folic Acid Supplementation during Pregnancy. A Case Study of Nyeri County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2020-11)In the World, a deficiency of iron is the most common nutrition disorder affecting more than 30% of the global populace more so children and women. Countries in the developing world are working in programs on implementing ... -
Barriers to Implementation of Nursing Process among Nurses Working In Narok County Referral Hospital
(KeMU, 2020-11)Globally, nursing process has gained popularity and is utilized in hospitals to offer quality individual nursing care to patients. It is utilized by nurses in clinical setup to offer quality nursing care to patients ... -
Utilization Factors of Surgical and Antibiotic Treatments for Potentially Blinding Trachoma in Loodokilani Ward, Kajiado County, (Household Survey)
(KeMU, 2020-11)A number of studies carried out in the county show that poor utilization of eye treatment services is seen as lack of confidence by the community for the eyecare professionals. Various reasons for not accessing eye checkups ... -
The Impact of Clinical Nurse Instructor’s Practices on Clinical Performance among Bachelor of Science in Nursing Students in Kenya
(KeMU, 2020-11)Clinical teaching is a major component of nursing education. The training of Bachelor of Science Nursing (BScN) students entails clinical nurse instructors to help students translate theoretical knowledge into clinical ... -
Assessment of Vitamin A Routine Supplementation and Diet Rich in Vitamin A on Nutrition Status in Under Five Years of Age in Wajir East Sub-County
(KeMU, 2020-11)The deficiency of Vitamin A increases child vulnerability to stunting whose effects are permanent if not managed early and spilling over into adulthood. The study aimed to measure the outcome of vitamin A routine supplement ... -
Influence of Organizational Drivers on Utilization of Health Information for Management’s Decision Making: A Case of Imenti South Sub-County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2020-11)Today’s health systems rely on health information for effective management. In contrast, compromised global data control systems progressively undermine international disease control initiatives thereby cutting back on ... -
Factors Influencing Delays of Elective Surgical Cases at the Aga Khan Hospitals in Kenya
(2020-11)Countries face health systems challenges which in turn affect the quantity and quality of health services delivered to the people. This consequently results in poor service delivery, negative outcomes and client dissatisfaction. ... -
Relationship between Low Birth Weight and Maternal Periodontitis: A Case Study of Kiambu County.
(KeMU, 2020-11)Periodontitis is defined as a long-term inflammatory disease of the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone occurring as a response to bacterial plaque. Periodontal diseases are estimated to affect more than 95% of the adult ...
