How much does effective health facility inspection cost? An analysis of the economic costs of Kenya's Joint Health Inspection innovations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In most low- and middle-income countries, health facility regulation is fragmented, ineffective and under-resourced. The Kenyan Government piloted an innovative regulatory regime involving Joint Health Inspections (JHI) which synthesized requirements across multiple regulatory agencies; increased inspection frequency; digitized inspection tools; and introduced public display of regulatory results. The pilot significantly improved regulatory compliance. We calculated the costs of the development and implementation of the JHI pilot and modelled the costs of national scale-up in Kenya.

Methods

We calculated the economic costs of three phases: JHI checklist development, start-up activities, and first year of implementation, from the providers' perspective in three pil

SUBMITTER: Chege T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9664811 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature