Effect of Implementation of Free Maternity Policy on Selected Maternal and Newborn Health Indicators in Gem Sub-County, Siaya County, Western Kenya.

Introduction: Kenya introduced free maternity services in June 2013. The main study objective was to investigate the effect of this intervention on maternal and newborn health and specifically to determine differences in 4th antenatal care visits, facility deliveries, post-abortion care, and occurrence of facility-based maternal and neonatal deaths two years pre-and-post intervention.

Methods: The study site was Gem Sub-County, Kenya.

Impact of free delivery policy on utilization of maternal health services in county referral hospitals in Kenya.

Background: Kenya has a high maternal mortality rate. Provision of skilled delivery plays a major role in reducing maternal mortality. Cost is a hindrance to the utilization of skilled delivery.

Open Defecation in Newly Created Kenyan Counties: A Situational Analysis.

Introduction: An estimated 5.6 million Kenyans defecate in the open. This exposes them to sanitation related diseases.

Khat consumption in Masalani town, northeastern Kenya.

Khat is widely consumed in Kenya. It contains cathinone, a psychoactive alkaloid, whose health effects are similar to those of amphetamine. A descriptive study was done among men in a remote Kenyan town on consumption of khat.

Guidelines for environmental health management in children's homes in sub-Sahara Africa.

The field of environmental health focuses on the relationships between human health and well being and the influence of the physical, social and societal environments. Our understanding of the environment-health interface has progressed because of two relatively recent insights: First, the recognition that the unprecedented environmental changes of the last half-century are affecting global population health. Secondly, the recognition that children have greater vulnerability to environmental hazards and are inadequately protected by current regulatory standards.