In addition to the SHI Act, two other laws play crucial roles in fortifying Kenya's healthcare infrastructure: The Facility Improvement Financing Act and the Digital Health Act. The Facility Improvement Financing Act directly tackles underfunding in public health facilities, a ...
The CEO said that Kenya hopes to achieve universal health coverage by getting those able to pay for insurance and make adequate contributions to the social health kitty, while the government subsidizes the cost of healthcare for the low-income population....
Social Health Insurance for HIV Prevention and Treatment: Evidence from KenyaLawrence P. O. Were
The existing legislations like Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897 and the Disaster Management Act of 2005, which were both enacted in response to the pandemic, includes no mention of the protection and rehabilitation of the disadvantaged, including sex workers during a health disaster (Khera2021). Sex...
This paper evaluates the factors influencing the formation of financial and non-financial networks as informal insurance strategies, using cross-sectional data collected from 815 households in Kenya and analysed using a dyadic linear probability model. Results show that kinship, geographical proximity, ...
Kenya does not yet have universal health coverage: An estimated 75% of the population are not covered by a health insurance scheme. Public-private partnerships are pivotal to improve this situation. (Credit: David Macharia) A partnership approach to improving access Rose Wambui was just 32 years...
health, and working hours (abbreviated as “work” in the table and used as its logarithmic value in the regression); social insurance features including whether to participate in medical insurance and whether to participate in pension insurance; household characteristic variables include the presence ...
(2018) found in Tanzania that next to a village-level precipitation shock, it’s only mobile money users can avoid a decrease in their consumption. For the author the remittances received by households allow them to smooth consumption. Kikulwe et al. (2014) analysed in Kenya the impacts of...
Meet Kaaka Issac, a member of the Masai Tribe in Kenya and he is an unstoppable force, driving change at scale for his community and the entire African continent. China’s Economy Is Shifting. The World Isn’t Ready For It. (msn.com) ...
In Kenya, the effort to integrate organic agriculture into the policy framework led to the establishment of an organic agriculture desk at the Ministry of Agriculture and the drafting of the National Organic Agriculture Policy (Ozor and Nyambane, 2021). Research methods Research approach and design...