Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While health worker strikes are experienced globally, the effects can be worst in countries with infrastructural and resource challenges, weak institutional arrangements, underdeveloped organizational ethics codes, and unaffordable alternative options for the poor. In Kenya, there have been a series of public health worker strikes in the post devolution period. We explored the perceptions and experiences of frontline health managers and community members of the 2017 prolonged health workers' strikes.

Methods

We employed an embedded research approach in one county in the Kenyan Coast. We collected in-depth qualitative data through informal observations, reflective meetings, individual and group interviews and document reviews (n = 5), and analysed the data using a

SUBMITTER: Waithaka D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011250 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature