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The effect of market orientation on business performance: evidence from two private healthcare institutions in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2018)
The relationship between market orientation and business performance has been widely studied by scholars in marketing. Even though these studies have concluded that market orientation leads to better business performance, ...
Evaluation of job design and its effect on employee engagement in a private outpatient healthcare provider in Kenya: a case of AAR healthcare Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2018)
Engagement has been theorized as one of the key positive outcomes of well-designed jobs. Job design determines how the employee interacts with work on a daily basis and significantly influences the behaviour of the employee. ...
Assessing the effect of devolution on the number of healthcare workers in hardship areas: a case study of doctors, clinical officers, nurses and specialists in Wajir County
(Strathmore University, 2018)
Kenya has had shortage of healthcare workers since independence, but this picture is worse in the hardship areas as majority of these workers tend to concentrate in urban areas. The Constitution of Kenya 2010 devolved ...
Using Health Management and Information Systems for decision making: an exploratory study in private sector level 3 & 4 health centres in Narok
(Strathmore University, 2018)
In the recent past there has been a rapid uptake in the deployment and use of HMIS by private facilities in Kenya. It is unclear how private sector managers have implemented these systems and whether they are using these ...
Bedside rationing by frontline healthcare workers: a case study of St.Francis community Hospital
(Strathmore University, 2018)
Studies on bedside rationing in developing countries such as Kenya are scanty. Bedside rationing entails implicit or explicit withholding of essential healthcare services from clients. The existing literature on bedside ...
Exploring hand hygiene practices among healthcare workers in Ruiru Sub-County Hospital
(Strathmore University, 2018)
The individual, household and economic impact of Hospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) globally cannot be overstated; therefore, how healthcare workers perform and comply to hand hygiene practices is essential for mitigating ...
Examining the effects of incentive structures on the work of community health volunteers in Kwale County
(Strathmore University, 2018)
The Community Health Strategy (CHS) is an approach that aims to improve the health status of communities through initiation and implementation of health actions at household and community levels. CHS is a highly effective ...
An assessment of the state of public healthcare governance in Tana river County, Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2018)
There are six (6) building blocks in the health systems, namely health service delivery, health information systems, healthcare financing, health workforce, medical technologies and products and health leadership and ...
Determinants of enrollment and retention of organized members of the informal sector into National Hospital Insurance Fund Nairobi County
(Strathmore University, 2018)
The global agenda focus is on how countries can adopt context specific initiatives towards realizing Universal Health Coverage as emphasis by the post 2015 development agenda(United Nations, 2015). The Kenya health financing ...
Factors contributing to medication errors at the Kenyatta National Hospital
(Strathmore University, 2018)
Medication errors are among the most prevalent medical errors worldwide. The Institute of Medicine estimates 1.5 million preventable medication errors occur in the united states every year. Health care in Kenya has been ...