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Factors Influencing Newcastle Disease Vaccine Biotechnology Adoption by Small-holder Poultry Farmers in Kathiani and Central Divisions of Machakos District, Kenya
(2005-08)Agricultural biotechnology, of which poultry vaccine production is an integral component, is believed to hold great potential for contributing significantly to household food security particularly among the small-holder ... -
Cost -Effectiveness of Spinal and General Anaesthesia in the Surgical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in Hospitals in Nakuru Municipality, Kenya. /1
(Kenyatta University, 2008-05)Anaesthesia has been cited as one of the medical practices that escalate the cost of expenditure on healthcare. In view of this, spinal anaesthesia has been proposed as a method that can lower surgical costs. However, ... -
Cost -Effectiveness of Spinal and General Anaesthesia in the Surgical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in Hospitals in Nakuru Municipality, Kenya. /1
(Kenyatta University, 2008-05)Anaesthesia has been cited as one of the medical practices that escalate the cost of expenditure on healthcare. In view of this, spinal anaesthesia has been proposed as a method that can lower surgical costs. However, ... -
Factors Associated with Default from Treatment among Tuberculosis Patients in Nairobi Province, Kenya
(2009-05)Tuberculosis is caused mainly by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.' It affects all tissues and organs except hair teeth and nails. Over 2 billion people were estimated to be infected with the tubercle bacilli in 2005. The immune ... -
Determinants of Under-five Mortality in Kisumu North District, Kisumu County, Kenya
(2013-10-17)Addressing child mortality and under-five mortality (USM) has continuously been a global challenge. The world summit for children in 1990 called for a worldwide reduction in child mortality to reduce USM to below 70 ... -
Barriers to early diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer among patients receiving treatment at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi Kenya
(2014)Although cancer still remains a major health problem, early diagnosis and improved therapeutic interventions of cervical cancer in developed countries are quite different from what is observed in the developing countries; ... -
Prostate Cancer Awareness, Knowledge, Perception on Self-vulnerability and Uptake of Screening among Men in Nairobi County, Kenya
(2014-02-19)Prostate cancer is the number one cancer afflicting men in Africa and a leading cancer killer among Kenyan men. Although there is scarcity of information on the disease in African men, higher awareness with concomitant low ... -
Determinants of Self Directed Referral amongst Patients Seeking Health Services at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(2014-02-24)Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is found at the apex of the referral system of health care. Ideally, patients seen at KNH are supposed to have sought care from lower levels of health care in the referral system first ... -
Determinants of Utilization of Routine Data for Decision MAKING IN Health Facilities in Kitui County, Kenya
(2014-02-26)Effective management of today’s health systems depends on critical use of data and information for the effective policy-making, planning, monitoring of services and making decisions. Following the decentralization of health, ... -
Effectiveness of partner notification in the management of sexually transmitted infections in Nairobi
(2014-03-11)Partner notification is the health activity in which sexual partners of individuals with a Sexually Transmitted Infection are notified, counseled about exposure risks and offered services. Brown et al., 1970 has shown that ... -
Influenza virus subtypes in wild birds within selected sites along the major migratory fly-ways in Kenya
(2014-05-02)Human influenza pandemics are rare but recurring events that have periodically affected humanity since ancient times. They are associated with a rapid surge, experienced globally, in the number of cases of respiratory ... -
Assessing the Level of Readiness for Computerized Health Management Information System Among Nurses in Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(2014-08-18)Healthcare Organizations are now in the process of implementing computerized health management health information system (CHMIS) with a hope that they will improve on safety, efficiency and effectiveness of patient healthcare ... -
Determinants of access to healthcare among the elderly.the case of Kibera informal settlement, Nairobi County, Kenya
(2014-08-28)Access to Health care by the elderly can be defined as the ability of the aged to get the required medical care from the health service providers when they need it. It’s a comprehensive measurement of access to health care ... -
Cost and Quality of Healthcare Services Provided to Urban Refugees Through in-House and Outsourced Health Facilities in Nairobi, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015)More than half of the world’s refugees reside in non-camp settings, In Nairobi, approximately 55,000 refugees had been registered with United Nations High Commission for Refugees by end of 2012 (UNHCR, 2013).In recent years ... -
Disaster Preparedness Among Members of Staff at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015)Over the world, hospitals have suffered severe damage as a result of natural and anthropogenic disasters leading to the partial or total collapse of the structures and interruption of the health services urgently needed ... -
Compliance with the Provisions of Section 126 of The Public Health Act (Cap 242) By Public Food Places in Bungoma County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015)The public food industry in Bungoma has been experiencing numerous challenges in their quest to comply with the Public Health Act (CAP 242), especially section 126. Consequently, the study sought to establish the extent ... -
Migration of Human Resources for Health at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi County, Kenya.
(Kenyatta University, 2015-01-19)The importance of health workers to the effective functioning of healthcare systems is widely recognized. Shortages of health workers constitute a significant barrier to achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals ... -
Patient satisfaction at comprehensive care centers (ccc) points-of-care in level 5 public health facilities in Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015-08)Quality of care in government public facilities is important for ehnancing patients satisfaction and hence retention of patients in care especially in cases where treatment is life long such as HIV/AIDS. The Kenya Quality ... -
Technical efficiency in public hospitals in Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015-11)The World Health Organization called attention to the importance of efficiency in all functions of a health system for the ultimate achievement of the goals of health improvement, stewardship, responsiveness and fairness ... -
Clinicians User Satisfaction with Paper-Based Patient Information System in Kenyatta National Hospital and Mbagathi County Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2016)User satisfaction with paper-based information system is a subjective evaluation of the various individual, organizational, and societal consequences of information systems use. Despite the widespread use, the need to ...
