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Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis
Investing in the health workforce to ensure universal access to qualified, skilled and motivated health workers is pertinent in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The policy thrust in Kenya is to improve the quality of life of the population by investing to improve health service pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9422806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36008084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009748 |
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author | Okoroafor, Sunny C Kwesiga, Brendan Ogato, Julius Gura, Zeinab Gondi, Joel Jumba, Nakato Ogumbo, Teresa Monyoncho, Maureen Wamae, Annah Wanyee, Mutile Angir, Meldah Almudhwahi, Mona Ahmed Evalyne, Chagina Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet Ahmat, Adam Zurn, Pascal Asamani, James Avoka |
author_facet | Okoroafor, Sunny C Kwesiga, Brendan Ogato, Julius Gura, Zeinab Gondi, Joel Jumba, Nakato Ogumbo, Teresa Monyoncho, Maureen Wamae, Annah Wanyee, Mutile Angir, Meldah Almudhwahi, Mona Ahmed Evalyne, Chagina Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet Ahmat, Adam Zurn, Pascal Asamani, James Avoka |
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description | Investing in the health workforce to ensure universal access to qualified, skilled and motivated health workers is pertinent in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The policy thrust in Kenya is to improve the quality of life of the population by investing to improve health service provision and achieving universal health coverage. To realise this, the Ministry of Health undertook a Health Labour Market Analysis with to generate evidence on the relationship between supply, demand and need of the health labour force. In the context of supply, Kenya has a total of 189 932 health workers in 2020 with 66% being in the public sector and 58%, 13% and 7% being nurses, clinical officers and doctors, respectively. The density of doctors, nurses and clinical officers per 10 000 in Kenya in 2020 was 30.14, which represents about 68% of the SDG index threshold of 44.5 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10 000 population. Findings indicates that Kenya needs to align future production in terms of cadre and quantity to the population health needs. Achieving this requires a multisectoral approach to ensure apposite quantity and mix of intakes into training institutions based on the health needs and ability to employ health workers produced. |
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spelling | pubmed-94228062022-09-12 Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis Okoroafor, Sunny C Kwesiga, Brendan Ogato, Julius Gura, Zeinab Gondi, Joel Jumba, Nakato Ogumbo, Teresa Monyoncho, Maureen Wamae, Annah Wanyee, Mutile Angir, Meldah Almudhwahi, Mona Ahmed Evalyne, Chagina Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet Ahmat, Adam Zurn, Pascal Asamani, James Avoka BMJ Glob Health Analysis Investing in the health workforce to ensure universal access to qualified, skilled and motivated health workers is pertinent in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The policy thrust in Kenya is to improve the quality of life of the population by investing to improve health service provision and achieving universal health coverage. To realise this, the Ministry of Health undertook a Health Labour Market Analysis with to generate evidence on the relationship between supply, demand and need of the health labour force. In the context of supply, Kenya has a total of 189 932 health workers in 2020 with 66% being in the public sector and 58%, 13% and 7% being nurses, clinical officers and doctors, respectively. The density of doctors, nurses and clinical officers per 10 000 in Kenya in 2020 was 30.14, which represents about 68% of the SDG index threshold of 44.5 doctors, nurses and midwives per 10 000 population. Findings indicates that Kenya needs to align future production in terms of cadre and quantity to the population health needs. Achieving this requires a multisectoral approach to ensure apposite quantity and mix of intakes into training institutions based on the health needs and ability to employ health workers produced. BMJ Publishing Group 2022-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9422806/ /pubmed/36008084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009748 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Analysis Okoroafor, Sunny C Kwesiga, Brendan Ogato, Julius Gura, Zeinab Gondi, Joel Jumba, Nakato Ogumbo, Teresa Monyoncho, Maureen Wamae, Annah Wanyee, Mutile Angir, Meldah Almudhwahi, Mona Ahmed Evalyne, Chagina Nabyonga-Orem, Juliet Ahmat, Adam Zurn, Pascal Asamani, James Avoka Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis |
title | Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis |
title_full | Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis |
title_fullStr | Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis |
title_short | Investing in the health workforce in Kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis |
title_sort | investing in the health workforce in kenya: trends in size, composition and distribution from a descriptive health labour market analysis |
topic | Analysis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9422806/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36008084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009748 |
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