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Exploring The Impact Of Health Worker Strikes On Maternal And Child Health In A Kenyan County, Abdu Mohiddin, Eva Langat, James Orwa, Violet Naanyu, Marleen Temmerman
Exploring The Impact Of Health Worker Strikes On Maternal And Child Health In A Kenyan County, Abdu Mohiddin, Eva Langat, James Orwa, Violet Naanyu, Marleen Temmerman
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, East Africa
Background: Studies of the impact of health care workers’ strikes tend to look at facility-level activity rather than populations, with evidence from low and middle-income countries relatively sparse. This study explored the effect of national strikes on maternal and child health. It looked at the impact on health system activity in both public and non-public sectors (e.g. private, faith-based), on health promotion investments like immunisation, and on disease detection like post-partum haemorrhage (PPH). A 100 day doctors’ strike started in December 2016, a 150 day nurses strike from June 2017 and then the clinical officers for 21 days that …