Pastoralist health care in Kenya
Health care for the Kenyan pastoralist people has serious shortcomings and it must be delivered under difficult circumstances. Often, the most basic requirements cannot be met, due to the limited accessibility of health care provisions to pastoralists. This adds major problems to the daily struggle...
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Ubiquity Press
2001-03-01
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| author | Huka H. Duba Ingrid M. Mur-Veeman Arno van Raak |
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| description | Health care for the Kenyan pastoralist people has serious shortcomings and it must be delivered under difficult circumstances. Often, the most basic requirements cannot be met, due to the limited accessibility of health care provisions to pastoralists. This adds major problems to the daily struggle for life, caused by bad climatic circumstances, illiteracy and poverty.<br> We argue that strong, integrated and community based primary health care could provide an alternative for these inadequacies in the health system. The question then is how primary health care, which integrates a diversity of basic care provisions, such as pharmaceutical provision, child delivery assistance, mother and childcare and prevention activities, can be implemented. In our view, an appropriate mix of decentralisation forms, warranting better conditions on the one hand and relying on the current community and power structures and culture on the other hand, would be the best solution for the time being. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8491738bb3a42418111b3c3e1990cc42022-12-21T23:24:12ZengUbiquity PressInternational Journal of Integrated Care1568-41562001-03-011110.5334/ijic.2121Pastoralist health care in KenyaHuka H. DubaIngrid M. Mur-VeemanArno van RaakHealth care for the Kenyan pastoralist people has serious shortcomings and it must be delivered under difficult circumstances. Often, the most basic requirements cannot be met, due to the limited accessibility of health care provisions to pastoralists. This adds major problems to the daily struggle for life, caused by bad climatic circumstances, illiteracy and poverty.<br> We argue that strong, integrated and community based primary health care could provide an alternative for these inadequacies in the health system. The question then is how primary health care, which integrates a diversity of basic care provisions, such as pharmaceutical provision, child delivery assistance, mother and childcare and prevention activities, can be implemented. In our view, an appropriate mix of decentralisation forms, warranting better conditions on the one hand and relying on the current community and power structures and culture on the other hand, would be the best solution for the time being.http://www.ijic.org/articles/21Africapastoralistsdecentralisationcommunity careintegration of services |
| spellingShingle | Huka H. Duba Ingrid M. Mur-Veeman Arno van Raak Pastoralist health care in Kenya International Journal of Integrated Care Africa pastoralists decentralisation community care integration of services |
| title | Pastoralist health care in Kenya |
| title_full | Pastoralist health care in Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Pastoralist health care in Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pastoralist health care in Kenya |
| title_short | Pastoralist health care in Kenya |
| title_sort | pastoralist health care in kenya |
| topic | Africa pastoralists decentralisation community care integration of services |
| url | http://www.ijic.org/articles/21 |
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