Staff Publications: Recent submissions
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An assessment of participatory integrated vector management for malaria control in Kenya
(National Institute of Environmental Health Science, 2015)The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends integrated vector management (IVM) as a strategy to improve and sustain malaria vector control. However, this approach has not been widely adopted.We comprehensively assessed ... -
Anemia among children exposed to polyparasitism in coastal Kenya
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2015)Anemia represents a substantial problem for children living in areas with limited resources and significant parasite burden. We performed a cross-sectional study of 254 Kenyan preschool- and early school-age children in ... -
National health research systems in the WHO African Region: current status and the way forward
(BioMed Central, 2015)A number of resolutions of the World Health Assembly and the WHO Regional Committee for Africa call upon African countries and their development partners to make the required investments in national health research systems ... -
National health research system in Malawi: dead, moribund, tepid or flourishing?
(BioMed Central, 2015)several instruments at both the global and regional levels to which countries in the WHO African Region are party call for action by governments to strengthen national health research systems (NHRS). This paper debates the ... -
Indirect costs associated with deaths from the Ebola virus disease in West Africa
(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 ... -
Counting the cost of child mortality in the World Health Organization African region
(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 ... -
Readiness of ethics review systems for a changing public health landscape in the WHO African Region
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: The increasing emphasis on research, development and innovation for health in providing solutions to the high burden of diseases in the African Region has warranted a proliferation of studies including clinical ... -
Evaluation of Cold Tolerance in NERICA s Compared with Japanese Standard Rice Varieties at the Reproductive Stage
(Journal of agronomy and crop science, 2015)New Rice for Africa (NERICA) is a general name for interspecific rice varieties derived from a cross between the high-yielding Asian rice (Oryza sativa L.) between locally adapted African rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.). ... -
Oil Content and Fatty Acid Composition of Five Linseed Varieties Grown In Two Agro-Ecological Locations of Kenya
(Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, 2015)Linseed oil is rich in the health promoting fatty acids, alpha-linolenic acid (omega-3) and oleic acid (omega-9), and is increasingly being used as a nutraceutical. However, there is limited linseed production in Kenya ... -
Influence of corporate social responsibility on financial performance of industries listed at Nairobi securities exchange, Kenya
(International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research, 2016)There has been an increased and continued expenditure by listed Industries on CSR activities over the years globally. It is now expected that a profit-making organization must engage in socially responsive ... -
CHALLENGES OF BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: A CASE OF MERU COUNTY IN KENYA
(International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 2016)A budget is a basic and powerful tool in management and serves as a tool for planning and controlling the use of scarce financial resources in the accomplishment of organizational goals. Most of the ... -
IMPLICATIONS OF CREDIT ACCESS AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN OWNED MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES IN IMENTI NORTH SUB-COUNTY, KENYA
(International Journal of Economics, Commerce, and Management, 2016)In an effort to ensure women fully participate in economic development, the government of Kenya has embraced the formulation of policies such as Sessional Paper number 2 of 2005 on development of Micro and ... -
Socio-demographic characteristics influencing uptake of screening for cervical cancer in women aged 18-49 years in Imenti north sub-county, Meru County, Kenya
(Science Publishing Group, 2016)Cervical cancer continues to kill approximately 274 ,883 women globally every year, despite robust programs for the prevention and control of the disease. Kenya has an uptake of cervical cancer screening (3.2%) compared ... -
Does User Fee Removal Policy Provide Financial Protection from Catastrophic Health Care Payments? Evidence from Zambia
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Out-of-pocket payments in health care have been shown to impose significant burden on households in Sub-Saharan Africa, leading to constrained access to health care and impoverishment. In an effort to reduce the financial ... -
Sequence Variation in the rDNA Region of Root - Knot Nematodes ( Meloidogyne spp) Infecting Indigenous Leafy Vegetables in Kisii and Transmara Sub - counties, Kenya
(SCIENCEDOMAIN internationa, 2016)Place and Distribution of Study:Nematology Laboratory, Kenyatta University and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Laboratories, Nairobi, between March 2009 to September 2011.Samples were obtained from ... -
Relationship between Teacher - Educator Characteristics and the Integration of Information and Communication Technologies in Teaching and Learning in Teacher Education Institutions in Kenya
(International Journal of Education and Social Science, 2016)It is a government policy that all institutions of learning in Kenya, across the curricula embrace Information Communication Technology (ICT) as the world moves towards knowledge based economy. The evidence ... -
Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice towards African Indigenous Vegetables in Kenya
(Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, 2016)Food and nutrition insecurity has been a major challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). With land frontier closing, farmers in SSA must intensify and diversify food production to alleviate food and nutrition ... -
Contrasting patterns of serologic and functional antibody dynamics to Plasmodium falciparum antigens in a Kenyan birth cohort
(American Society for Microbiology, 2016)IgG antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) are transferred from the maternal to fetal circulation during pregnancy, wane after birth, and are subsequ ently acquired in response to natural infection. We examined the ... -
Productivity and Efficiency Changes in Referral Hospitals in Uganda: An Application of Malmquist Total Productivity Index
(Research Gates, 2016)Background: Strengthening health institutions increases the productivity of health spending. Institutions like hospitals which use a large proportion of the health budget are natural targets for productivity improvements, ... -
Effects of Marketing strategy on competitiveness of Saccos in Imenti North Sub-County, Meru, Kenya.
(Int. J. Adv. Multidiscip. Res, 2016)The competitive environment is largely uncontrollable and very wide in scope. The success of every organization is determined by its responsiveness to the environment. Organizations adequately and promptly respond to ...