Meet Winnie Nyamboki, Health Economist and Mawazo Scholar
The economics literature identifies health as having both direct and indirect effects on the population as well as a country’s output. Economists have argued that a healthier workforce is more productive and this is an illustration of the direct effect. The indirect effect is mostly analysed from a long-term perspective. For example, healthy individuals are […]
The Economic Burden of Poor Health in Kenya
The Government of Kenya, through its ‘Big Four’ agenda , is keen on providing universal health coverage by 2022 to guarantee quality and affordable health care for all. While such an initiative goes a long way in redistributing health resources, Kenya is struggling to cope with the burden of traditional communicable diseases, which continue to […]