Kilifi Priority Areas generated from the Kilifi County Integrated Development Plan
| KRHDSS Past/Current Research Areas
| Comments
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Nutrition
| Nutrition
| Nutrition data of children included in surveillance. Baseline assessment amongst farming households recently undertaken.
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Food security
| Food security
| Baseline assessment amongst farming households recently undertaken.
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Water, sanitation, and hygiene
| Water, sanitation, and hygiene
| Currently only collecting WASH data as part of regular surveillance. No ongoing research.
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Non-communicable Diseases (specifically Diabetes, Cancer as well as Accidents and Occupational Hazards)
| Cancer Epidemiology
| Only cancer research at present.
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Mental and Brain Health (including rehabilitative services).
| Mental and Brain Health (stress, anxiety, depression, dementia).
| No work on substance abuse issues, clearly highlighted as a priority area for Kilifi.
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Health Systems (in particular, universal health coverage, quality, and affordable healthcare; health financing; boosting staff numbers, and skill development; monitoring and evaluation).
| Health Systems (Community health volunteer retention and motivation).
| Prior work on mentoring HCWs to Improve Facility-Based Quality of Care During Childbirth in Kenya.
CHV retention.
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Infectious Diseases (particularly, Tuberculosis and HIV; Malaria).
| Infectious diseases (COVID-19)
| Only COVID-19 research to date.
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Environment, Climate and Health
| Environment, Climate and Health
| Could be developed further.
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Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (particularly, uptake of family planning services and associated technologies among women of reproductive age; prevention of adolescent pregnancies; reduction in maternal mortality, reduction in under 5, infant and neonatal mortality).
| Maternal, Neonatal and Child health (early childhood development)
| Could be developed further.
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Improved data for health management and decision making (lack of automated health information systems highlighted).
| Surveillance / Data science for health
| Improved data for health management and decision making included as an element of STRIDES application.
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Pandemic preparedness
| | No existing research yet.Could be developed further.
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