Joses Muthuri Kirigia

TL;DR: Developed countries continue to deprive Kenya of millions of dollars worth of investments embodied in her human resources for health, contributing to further underdevelopment of Kenya and to keeping a majority of her people in the vicious circle of ill-health and poverty.

TL;DR: The finding suggests that 44% of public health centers in Kenya are inefficient, and studies should be undertaken in the other countries in the World Health Organization African Region with a view to empowering Ministries of Health to play their stewardship role more effectively.

TL;DR: The estimates reported here show that diabetes imposes a substantial economic burden on countries of the WHO African Region, which underscores the urgent need for increased investments in the prevention and management of diabetes.

TL;DR: This pilot study demonstrated to policy-makers the versatility of DEA in measuring inefficiencies among individual facilities and inputs and called for the Planning and Budgeting Unit of the Ghana Health Services to continually monitor the productivity growth, allocative efficiency and technical efficiency of all its health facilities in the course of the implementation of health sector reforms.

TL;DR: Economic status and place of residence amongst other factors matter in peoples' WTP for CBHI membership, and the amount to be paid has to be augmented with other means of financing to ensure success and sustainability of CBHI schemes.