page_title: Healthcare in Kenya
section_title: Context of Healthcare in Kenya
hierarchical_section_title: Healthcare in Kenya / Context of Healthcare in Kenya
context_page_description: Kenya’s health care system is structured in a step-wise manner so that complicated cases are referred to a higher level. Gaps in the system are filled by private and church run units.
  Dispensaries and private clinics
  Health centres
  Sub-district hospitals and nursing homes
  District hospital and private hospitals
  Provincial hospital
  National hospital
context_section_description: A majority of Kenya’s population receives healthcare services from the public sector. The range of services include preventive, promotive, curative and rehabilitative. Preventive services include routine childhood immunizations and environmental activities to control mosquito breeding which in turn reduce malaria transmission. Promotive services are mostly educational services provided to the general population on healthy lifestyles and available interventions. Curative and rehabilitative services include all treatment activities available at hospitals and other healthcare facilities.
  To achieve these functions, the Kenya government has traditionally run a network of healthcare facilities staffed by government employees and run directly by the budgets allocated by the government from public resources.
  Under the centralized system, all healthcare facilities were organized into 6 levels as follows:
caption: Map of Kenya.
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