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The Challenge of Promoting Interventions to Prevent Disease in Impoverished Populations in Rural Western Kenya

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Poverty is a critical social determinant of health. A particular approach toward mitigating inequitable access to health services in Kenya has been through a community-based distribution program implemented by the Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP) that has achieved modest uptake of public health interventions. To explore reasons for modest uptake, we asked program participants about child health problems, daily tasks, household expenditures, and services needed by their communities. Respondents identified child health problems consistent with health data and reported daily tasks, expenses, and needed services that were more related to basic needs of life other than health. These findings highlight the challenges of implementing potentially self-sustaining preventive interventions at scale in poor populations in the developing world.

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2013.301459

Authors: Katharine Schilling, Bobbie Person, Sitnah H. Faith, Ronald Otieno, Robert Quick

Institutions: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases

Language: English

Topic: Child Nutrition and Water Access

Subfield: Nutrition and Dietetics

Field: Nursing

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, No poverty, Reduced inequalities, Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

Funders: United States Agency for International Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention