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Transforming the Health Sector in Kenya by Adopting Integrated Health Management Information System
(International Journal of professional practice (IJPP), 2019-05)Achieving better health outcomes is every health organization’s dream.Several health management strategies have been developed;a key one being production of quality information for purposes of informed decision making.Most ... -
Knowledge and Perception of Women towards Cervical Cancer Screening in Meru County, Kenya.
(International Journal of professional practice (IJPP), 2019-05)Globally, epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases is on increase with Cervical cancer associated with human papilloma virus being among leading causes of morbidity and mortality in ... -
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 ... -
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Cancer Patients in Meru County, Kenya.
(International Journal of professional practice (IJPP), 2019-05)Cancer is among the leading causes of death globally.Despite advancing technology in conventional methods of cancer diagnosis and treatment, access to services remains a big challenge especially in the developing countries.Out ... -
Innovation for Food Security and Nutrition in Kenya Towards Attainment of The Big Four: A Review of Chelelang’ the Wonder Bean Technology
(International Journal of professional practice (IJPP), 2019-05)Various genetic and environmental factors adversely affect the yield of beans in East and southern Africa.These include climate change variables such as temperature,moisture,pests, diseases and soils.This paper reviews ... -
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 ... -
Status of Health workers Knowledge on Maternal and Neonatal Health related to Service Delivery in Makueni County
(Health Systems Management Journal, 2019-07)Globally, new born mortality remains unacceptably high. Neonatal mortality accounts for 60% of infant mortality rate in Kenya. In Makueni County, 1 in 22 children does not live to his or her first birth day. This ... -
The Effect of Mobile Phone Technology in Bridging the Gaps in ARV Uptake Care Service Delivery in Kenya: A Case Study in Kibera, Nairobi County
(KeMU, 2019-07)The Kenyan constitution seeks to guarantee every citizen the right to quality healthcare services but is hampered geographical location, socio-economic statuses, and education among other factors of intended recipients. ... -
Relationship Between Structural Arrangement and Provision of Primary care Quality: A Case of Health Centers in Nakuru County, Kenya
(Health Systems Management Journal, 2019-08)Introduction: Healthcare is a fundamental need, its availability and comprehensiveness helps in making people’s life better and productive. Delivery of quality care requires an efficient system with adequate capacity of ... -
Patient satisfaction with emergency care services accessed at selected public health facilities in Nairobi City County: patients’ perspective
(KeMU, 2019-08)Access to emergency medical services is portrayed in the light of the truth as the capacity of the affected individual to get the perfect health attention from the wellbeing pro associations once they need it. It is an ... -
Human resource management practices influencing performance of nursing officers in Nyeri County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-08)Various organizations employ different human resources initiatives in order to increase efficiency. The most common initiatives employed to improve efficiency include performance contracts, internal contracting, contracting-out ... -
Influence of performance management systems on employee productivity in county referral hospitals in Kiambu County, Kenya
(KeMU, 2019-08)Human resource for health is one of the core pillars of health systems and performance management is one of its subcomponents. A performance management system in public health facilities is one of the tools for reforms ... -
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 ... -
Factors influencing uptake of antenatal care in Taita Taveta County, Kenya
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Determinants of a functional refferral system in Kisumu County,Kenya. Patient 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 ... -
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 ...