Will Households Invest in Safe Sanitation? Results from an Experimental Demand Trial in Nakuru, Kenya

Sanitation and Hygiene in Kenya: Lessons on What Drives Demand for Improved Sanitation

Results of Automated Retinal Image Analysis for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy from the Nakuru Study, Kenya.

OBJECTIVE Digital retinal imaging is an established method of screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR). It has been established that currently about 1% of the world's blind or visually impaired is due to DR. However, the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus and DR is creating an increased workload on those with expertise in grading retinal images. Safe and reliable automated analysis of re...

Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming ineffi ciently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this presents a puzzle, since unraveling can only occur when firms are willing to make early offers and workers are willing to accept them. We present a model and experiment in which workers’ qu...

Rapid assessment of avoidable blindness in Nakuru district, Kenya.

OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of avoidable blindness in > or =50-year-olds in Nakuru district, Kenya, and to evaluate the Rapid Assessment for Avoidable Blindness (RAAB), a new methodology to measure the magnitude and causes of blindness. DESIGN Cross-sectional population-based survey. PARTICIPANTS Seventy-six clusters of 50 people 50 years or older were selected by probability prop...

Social determinants of health and health inequities in Nakuru (Kenya)

BACKGROUND Dramatic inequalities dominate global health today. The rapid urban growth sustained by Kenya in the last decades has created many difficulties that also led to worsening inequalities in health care. The continuous decline in its Human Development Index since the 1990s highlights the hardship that continues to worsen in the country, against the general trend of Sub-Saharan Africa. Th...