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Determinants of unintended pregnancy in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2016)Kenya continues to face high prevalence of unintended pregnancy. The Kenya 2014 Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) demonstrated that 35% of the total pregnancies were unintended. The 2003 KDHS placed unintended pregnancy ... -
Determinants of unintended pregnancy in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2016-10)Kenya continues to face high prevalence of unintended pregnancy. The Kenya 2014 Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS) demonstrated that 35% of the total pregnancies were unintended. The 2003 KDHS placed unintended pregnancy ... -
Determinants of unintended pregnancy: a comparative study of Central and Coast regions of Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)This study sought to establish the demographic, socioeconomic and cultural determinants of unintended pregnancy among women aged 15-24 in Central and Coast regions of Kenya and to examine the unmet need for family planning ... -
Determinants of Unintended Pregnancy: a Comparative Study of Central and Western Provinces of Kenya
(University of Nairobi,, 2013)Kenya continues to record high rates of unintended pregnancies. The 2008-09 KDHS showed that 43 per cent of all pregnancies were unintended. This was a marginal decrease from the 2003 KDHS that recorded unintended ... -
Determinants of Unmet Need for Contraception Among Hiv Positive Women in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2013)Kenya, with a high HIV prevalence rate for women (6.9%), stands a high risk for Mother to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Efforts to prevent MTCT can focus on reducing the fertility level of HIV -positive women. The ... -
Determinants of unmet need for contraception in Zambia
(Department of Population Studies & Research Institute, University of Nairobi, 1999-07)This study attempts to identify some of the socio-economic, socio-cutural and demographic factors influencing unmet need for contraception based on data drawn from the Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS) conducted ... -
Determinants of Unmet need for Family Planning among Women in Rural Kenya
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2011)Despite the numerous programmatic efforts made by the government in partnership with the private sector, levels of unmet need for family planning still remain high among women in Kenya's rural areas. This study utilizes ... -
Determinants of uptake of HIV counselling and testing among patients with substance use disorder attending services at Mathari hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Patients with substance use disorder form an important category that need to be targeted by counselling and testing services. The hospital contact during rehabilitation for substance use can be used as an entry point ... -
Determinants of Uptake of Immunization Services Among Children Aged Below 12 Months in Aldai Sub-county, Nandi County.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Immunization remains as one of the most powerful tool of disease prevention and control worldwide and is thus considered to be a very crucial part of global and national disease prevention and control policies. Kenya’s ... -
Determinants of Uptake of Intermittent Prevention Treatment of Malaria Among Pregnant Women in Kisumu County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Pregnant women and their unborn children face significant risks from malaria infection during pregnancy simply Malaria in pregnancy (MIP), which is recognized as a serious public health issue. According to the extent of ... -
Determinants of Uptake of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) Among Women of Reproductive Age in Nandi County, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Modern methods of family planning include the Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) and are more effective as well as cost effective than short acting methods. In Kenya, LARC methods are readily available as well as ... -
Determinants of Uptake of National Hospital Insurance Fund by Self-employed Persons in Kenya: Case of Health Projects in Wajir County,Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2019)The assessment point was to investigate the determinants of take-up of national restorative center security support without any other person used individuals in Kenya: example of Wajir County. Unequivocally the examination ... -
Determinants of Uptake of Youth Enterprise Development Fund by the Youths in Bomet County
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Lack of access to finance has been identified as one of the major constraints to small business growth. The reason is that provision of financial services is an important means for mobilizing resources for more productive ... -
Determinants of Urban Housing Development by Private Investors in Nairobi County
(University of Nairobi, 2017)Investment is one of the key factors for economic growth in developing countries. The Government of Kenya recognizes housing as basic need thus an emphasis on the provision of adequate shelter for all the both in urban and ... -
Determinants of urban roads projects completion in Kenya a case of inland container depot access road a in Nairobi county
(UoN, 2020)While urban transport has had a tremendous liberating impact, it has also posed a very serious problem to the urban impact in which it operates. This has brought about the growing demands for construction of urban roads ... -
Determinants of Use of Electronic Medical Records Systems to Deliver Hiv Care in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: The increasing application of ICT to manage these countries’ Patient level health information systems (HIS) is expected to improve efficiencies, leading to availability of quality health information for clinical ... -
Determinants of use of portfolio performance measures used by pension funds in kenya
(University of NairobiSchool Of Business, University Of Nairobi, 2012-10)The study sought to establish the composite measures of portfolio performance used by pension funds to manage portfolio performance. A survey research design was used to conduct the study. A questionnaire was used to ... -
Determinants of utilization of antenatal care services by mothers: a case of Kitui district hospital, Kitui county, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Maternal mortality remains a huge public health problem in Africa as a whole and Kenya is not excluded. One of the strategies to improve maternal health is the implementation and appropriate use of antenatal care (ANC) ... -
Determinants of Utilization of Biomedical Engineering Profession in Private Hospitals in Kenya a Case of Nairobi County
(University of Nairobi, 2016)Biomedical engineering Professionals work at the intersection of engineering, the life sciences and healthcare. These engineers take principles from applied science (including mechanical, electrical, chemical and computer ...
