The COVID-19 pandemic and disruptions to essential health services in Kenya: a retrospective time-series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public health emergencies can disrupt the provision of and access to essential health-care services, exacerbating health crises. We aimed to assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on essential health-care services in Kenya.

Methods

Using county-level data routinely collected from the health information system from health facilities across the country, we used a robust mixed-effect model to examine changes in 17 indicators of essential health services across four periods: the pre-pandemic period (from January, 2018 to February, 2020), two pandemic periods (from March to November 2020, and February to October, 2021), and the period during the COVID-19-associated health-care workers' strike (from December, 2020 to January, 2021).

Findings

In the pre-pandem

SUBMITTER: Kiarie H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9363041 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature