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Assessment of malaria reporting and epidemic preparedness systems in health facilities in Eldoret West District, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

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dc.contributor.author C. Kirinyet, Ruth
dc.contributor.author S. Ng’etich, Arthur
dc.contributor.author Juma, Ahmad
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-23T06:52:20Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-23T06:52:20Z
dc.date.issued 2016-08-18
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/9121
dc.description.abstract The most important factor in reducing the impact of an epidemic is a timely response with implementation of effective control measures at the point of detection. This study sought to assess the malaria reporting and epidemic preparedness systems of health facilities in Eldoret West District, Kenya. A cross-sectional study design was adapted. A census technique was used to select all the forty five health facilities in the district comprising of government, mission and non-governmental facilities. An interviewer administered questionnaire was used for data collection and analysis done using Stata. Categorical variables were summarized as frequencies and corresponding percentages. The overall reporting rate was 91.7% for all the health facilities. Only 15 health facilities (33%) plotted malaria trend lines for number of cases of malaria. Malaria epidemics were reported within 24 hours in 22 health facilities but they lacked the appropriate supplies to respond to confirmed cases or epidemics. The overall malaria reporting completeness rate was above 90% implying that the malaria surveillance system was generally good. Concerted efforts by concerned stakeholders should ensure improvement of malaria epidemic preparedness system in all health facilities and provision of information to health personnel on malaria outbreak response strategies. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.subject Malaria en_US
dc.subject Diagnosis en_US
dc.subject Treatment en_US
dc.subject Practices; Kenya en_US
dc.title Assessment of malaria reporting and epidemic preparedness systems in health facilities in Eldoret West District, Uasin Gishu County, Kenya en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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