1. Kenya Healthcare Monitor
Measuring the Pulse of the Kenyan Health Sector
(a partnership)
01. 05.2012 © 2012 Ipsos. All rights reserved. Contains Ipsos' Confidential and Proprietary information and
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2. What is it?
Base: All Respondents, Countrywide
Sample Size: 2,000
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3. What is it?
A regular mixed-method survey to
assess key elements of the Kenyan
Health Sector, released in the public
domain.
Purpose:
 Tool for advocacy and accountability
 Detecting health sector trends
 Public Relations
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4. What are the opportunities?
This is a PPP
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5. What are the opportunities?
This is a PPP WWW
Win-Win-Win
Public
KHF
Ipsos
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6. What are the opportunities?
KHF
 Media coverage (KHF brand promotion, agenda setting)
 Credible arguments during discussion and negotiations
 Strategic operational data
Ipsos
Media coverage (broad research capabilities)
 Setting the stage for health sector operational research
 Access to key opinion leaders and experts in the sector
 Spark off more collaborative research business
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7. What are the opportunities?
Public : ‘collateral’ benefit
• Increased transparency and accountability
• Reference for strategic policy discussions
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8. How does it work?
5x5
5 Thematic Areas
Health Service Provision
Medical Insurance Coverage
Supply Chain
Non-Communicable Diseases
Impact of Ill Health
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9. How does it work?
5x5
5 Methods of Data Collection
National Face-to-Face Survey (Omnibus)
Telephonic Survey w. Health Professionals
Media Monitoring
Expert Panel
Mystery Shopping
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10. How does it work?
Base: All Respondents, Countrywide
Sample Size: 2,000
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11. What are the conditions for it to survive?
• KHF actively facilitates research among health professionals
• KHF provides member data – contact lists and secondary data
• KHF provides experts and key opinion leaders’ time for
indicator development and for expert panels
• Ipsos to secure sustainable financial means - either by spin-off
business or by finding sponsorship
• De-link it from individual commitment and passion
• Widen the partnership?
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12. Straight out
of the Field:
Data Sneak Peek
(exclusive)

13. Medical Insurance Coverage, Kenya - April 2012
No Medical Cover 77%
NHIF 18%
Medical cover offered by employer 1%
Individual medical cover 1%
Medical allowance
Covered by employer of someone else in HH 0%
Micro-Insurance/tied to micro-finance
Others 1%
Don't know 2%
*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed.
Sample Size: 3,000 countrywide.
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14. Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance
“Suppose you have to pay health costs
yourself, meaning that no one else pays for it.
What would you choose between paying
health costs in cash as they arise, or to buy a
medical insurance that is affordable to you?”
*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed
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15. Willingness to Pay for Health Insurance, Kenya - April 2012
5% 1%
Pay health costs in cash
as they arise
29% Buy a health insurance
Don't know
65% No response
*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed
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16. Rational Use of Drugs
“Have you or has someone in your family received
any medicine that was prescribed/recommended by
a doctor or a clinical officer in the last 3 months?
- 46% Yes -
…was this medicine used or shared by any other
person than person for whom it was prescribed /
recommended by the doctor?”
*Disclaimer: Data not reviewed
13% Yes
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17. MORE INFORMATION
Joel Lehmann
Healthcare
+254 738 98 99 50
joel.lehmann@ipsos.com
© 2012 Ipsos. All rights reserved. Contains Ipsos' Confidential and Proprietary information
and may not bedisclosed or reproduced without the prior written consent of Ipsos.
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