Tackling health professionals' strikes: an essential part of health system strengthening in Kenya

Barasa, Edwine ; English, Mike ; et al.

In: BMJ Global Health; (2018-11-01)

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Summary box Since devolution of healthcare services in 2013, the Kenyan public health sector has been affected by frequent short and often localised strikes.1 These were followed by a public-sector nationwide doctors’ strike lasting 100 days (from 5 December 2016 to 14 March 2017) and then the nurses’ strike lasting 150 days (from 5 June to 1 November 2017), a total of 250 strike days in a span of 11 months, referred to hereafter as the 2017 strikes. The strikes resulted from a complex chain of events briefly outlined below. A new 2010 Kenya Constitution gave every worker (with some exceptions for disciplined armed forces) the rights to join a union, engage in collective bargaining and the freedom to strike, linked to supporting rights to fair remuneration and reasonable working conditions.2 This constitution also devolved all primary and secondary health services to 47 new semiautonomous county governments. Initial plans were to progressively transfer functions over a 3-year transition period from …

Titel:	Tackling health professionals' strikes: an essential part of health system strengthening in Kenya
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person:	Barasa, Edwine ; English, Mike ; Mbevi, George ; Ogero, Morris ; Irimu, Grace ; Tsofa, Benjamin ; Akech, Samuel ; Gathara, David ; Kariuki, Celia
Link:	View record at OpenAIRE (Volltext)
Quelle:	BMJ Global Health; (2018-11-01)
Veröffentlichung:	BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018
Medientyp:	unknown
ISSN:	2059-7908 (print)
Schlagwort:	Kenya medicine.medical_specialty devolution of health services media_common.quotation_subject Public administration constitution 03 medical and health sciences Collective bargaining 0302 clinical medicine Political science Health care Chain of events collective bargaining agreement medicine Remuneration 030212 general & internal medicine media_common business.industry Constitution 030503 health policy & services Health Policy Public health Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 16. Peace & justice Devolution human resource for health strikes 8. Economic growth Commentary 0305 other medical science business
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