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Prolonged health worker strikes in Kenya- perspectives and experiences of frontline health managers and local communities in Kilifi County

Abstract Background While health worker strikes are experienced globally, the effects can be worst in countries with infrastructural and resource challenges, weak institutional arrangements, underdeveloped organizational ethics codes, and unaffordable alternative options for the poor. In Kenya, ther...

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Main Authors:	Dennis Waithaka (Author), Nancy Kagwanja (Author), Jacinta Nzinga (Author), Benjamin Tsofa (Author), Hassan Leli (Author), Christine Mataza (Author), Amek Nyaguara (Author), Philip Bejon (Author), Lucy Gilson (Author), Edwine Barasa (Author), Sassy Molyneux (Author)
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Published:	BMC, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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