Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit Publishes Analysis of Trauma Systems in Kenya

Recently, Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU) team members, including associate directors Abdulgafoor Bachani and Kent Stevens, director, Adnan Hyder and associated faculty member, Hadley Wesson, published a qualitative analysis of trauma care in Kenya.

Kenya is a country with a high rate of injury—nearly 89 deaths per 100, 000 population. Despite this high burden of injury and attempts to prioritize injury prevention in the country, trauma care systems assessments are non-existent. The paper explores the experience of injured patients at the district level in Kenya in an attempt to show the need to both develop prehospital care systems and strengthen hospital trauma care services.

The paper, “Trauma Systems in Kenya: A Qualitative Analysis at the District Level,” describes hospital care in terms of human resources, infrastructure and definitive care, providing a qualitative evaluation of existing trauma systems. The paper also highlights several observations of the systems in terms of burden of injury, prehospital care and hospital care.

Read more in Qualitative Health Research, here.

To read more on JH-IIRU’s work in trauma care, click here, here and here.

Read Dr. Kent Stevens’ blog post on the Bloomberg Philanthropies site on his work in Kenya here.