Researchers from the Institute of Healthcare Management at SBS Publish an Article in the BMC Health Services Journal

Researchers from the Institute of Healthcare Management at Strathmore University Business School publish an article in the BMC Health Services Research journal.

The article was co-authored by

1. Timothy Chege,
2. Prof. Francis Wafula,
3. Eric Tama,
4. Irene Khayoni, and
5. Dosila Ogira

all healthcare researchers at SBS along with:

• Njeri Gitau from the International Finance Corporation, and,
• Catherine Goodman from the Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The article, titled: How Much Does Effective Health Facility Inspection cost? An Analysis of the Economic Costs of Kenya’s Joint Health Inspection Innovations looks into the role that healthcare regulation can play in advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC).  “Achieving universal health coverage goes beyond expanding access.

Increased access to good quality care, and a high degree of patient safety, are vital for improved outcomes. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), lack of access to safe medical care contributes to about 25.9 million adverse events each year, with poor quality causing 5.7 to 8.4 million deaths .

Such inadequacies have focused attention on the role of government regulation in enforcing minimum standards of patient safety,” reads the article in part.

Read the full article here

 By Juliet Hinga

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