ANALYSIS AND COMMENTS

July 2016 linkedinPulse; Packed securely inside the boxes was a new mammography system, being ferried upstream from the Port of Lamu in Kenya, where I traveled last month, to a small rural town, where women were in need of access to screening. Every patient everywhere in the world deserves such …

July 2016 DailyNation; Workers in Kenya’s informal sector are being largely bypassed by the benefits of Kenya’s public health insurance system, a review of health financing data shows. Informal sector workers make up only 39 per cent of the 5.2 million workers who were contributing members of NHIF in 2015, …

June 2016 TheConversation; Consumers gather information about food from a variety of sources including their families, the media and through education. But another way that they can get the information is through food and nutrition labels. Nutrition labelling refers to the section on food labels that declares nutrient content. This …

June 2016 gehealthcareNews; Sub-Saharan African populations and economies are growing at unprecedented speed with a population growth of 2.7% and economic growth of 4.4% annually. Africa has the fastest growing middle class in the world, with 313 million people (roughly the population of the US), 34% of Africa’s population. This …

June 2016 Chesai; Within development debates and applied to national governments, “good governance” is often seen as a loaded term infused with political and value judgements. Yet health system governance is widely seen as a crucial leverage point to generate performance improvements. But what is health system governance? The common …