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These four proven levers will help counties realise primary healthcare

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A doctor attends to a patient at Magadi Hospital. [Courtesy]

As we commemorate a decade of county governments at the devolution conference this year, our focus will be on how counties have implemented last-mile primary interventions that have significantly enhanced population health.

To demonstrate this, we take a dive into Kenya's journey in drastically lowering maternal mortality, eliminating malaria, cholera, and measles as public health problems by 2030, flattening the non-communicable diseases (NCDs) curve, and addressing neglected tropical diseases through four proven levers of change.

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