Abstract:
The study sought to establish and examine the extent to which risk-taking propensity and entrepreneurial
behaviour influences health indicators among community health workers and their clients. The area of study
location was Kisumu East District, Kisumu County, Nyanza Province in Kenya. Data on health indicators such
as Antenatal Clinic use, Facility delivery, Measles immunization, Insecticide Treated Nets use, water treatment
and latrine use were collected through structured questionnaires and analyzed using both descriptive and
inferential statistics. Community health workers with high risk taking propensity as an entrepreneurial
characteristics achieved better results in health indicators than those with low entrepreneurial characteristics
especially in health facility delivery and water treatment. This could be a solution to motivating community
health workers who are being considered for task shifting in the health work force yet how to remunerate them
is a problem since a budget for their services would be unmanageable by governments
