The current extent of integration of mental health in primary care is pertinent to promoting and augmenting mental health at this level. We describe a facility mapping exercise conducted in two low-income/primary health facilities in Kenya to identify existing barriers and facilitators in the ...
Mapping services at two Nairobi County primary health facilities: identifying challenges and opportunities in integrated mental health care as a Universal ... Mapping services at two Nairobi County primary health facilities: identifying challenges and opportunities in integrated mental health care as a ...
While the global annual rate of visits to mental health outpatient facilities is 1,051/100,000 population, this rate is estimated at 14/100,000 in Africa [15]. Approximately 98.8% of those in need of mental health services in Africa do not receive such mental health services [16]. In ...
Apart from providing security and safety for the detainees, the Detention Facility provides services such as food preparation; medical and dental monitoring; mental health and physical hygiene monitoring; detainee transfers to court and to the hospitals in Arusha, Moshi and Nairobi; and purchasing clo...
Clients often attend many health facilities, which militate’ against good consistent long term management of health problems: "Most of these clients…are in denial, and because of this, they would change the facilities, they would change the facilities each and every other time. So they are re...
Nairobi-based Africa Mental Health Foundation, said Africa's biggest challenge was spreading mentalhealth careto the family level in professional care that would help ease thestigmaassociated with mental illness. Only 4 percent of those with mental illness are able to access treatment in Kenya, he...
Participants are also managing three new mental health facilities. And importantly for the future, mental health is now included in the medical school curricula of two universities. The lack of an effective central governance structure is among the greatest challenges to further reform; more ...
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Performance of TUBEX TF IgM Antibody Test Against Culture to Detect Typhoid Fever Among Hospitalized Patients in Nairobi County Typhoid fever has remained endemic and a major health problem in developing countries like Kenya due to poor sanitation, overcrowding and limited access to diagnostic services....
A randomized controlled trial will be carried out in the catchment areas of three local health care facilities in Dagoretti Sub County, Nairobi. After informed consent, females with high psychological distress (General Health Questionnaire-12 (score >2) and functional impairment (WHO Disability ...