Browsing School of Health Sciences & School of Nursing by Author "Kirigia, Doris Gatwiri"

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    • Counting the cost of child mortality in the World Health Organization African region 

      Kirigia, Joses Muthuri; Muthuri, Rosenabi Deborah Karimi; Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet; Kirigia, Doris Gatwiri (BioMed Central, 2015)
      Worldwide, a total of 6.282 million deaths occurred among children aged less than 5 years in 2013. About 47.4 % of those were borne by the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region. Sadly, even ...

    • The essence of governance in health development 

      Kirigia, Joses Muthuri; Kirigia, Doris Gatwiri (BioMed Central, 2011)
      Governance and leadership in health development are critically important for the achievement of the health Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and other national health goals. Those two factors might explain why many ...

    • Indirect costs associated with deaths from the Ebola virus disease in West Africa 

      Kirigia, Joses Muthuri; Masiye, Felix; Kirigia, Doris Gatwiri; Akweongo, Patricia (BioMed Central, 2015)
      By 28 June 2015, there were a total of 11,234 deaths from the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in five West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria and Sierra Leone). The objective of this study was to estimate the ...