HIV/AIDS Care and changes that have occurred in Kenya and Finland
Mökkönen, Elizabeth (2017)
Mökkönen, Elizabeth
Yrkeshögskolan Arcada
2017
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201704245258
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201704245258
Tiivistelmä
The aim of this study was to investigate the HIV/AIDS care quality improvements in Fin-land and in Kenya in the last ten years. Three specific research questions were posed to ascertain whether there were structural process and outcomes care quality for patients with HIV/AIDS in Finland and in Kenya.
The study was conducted as a literature review to investigate the research questions. The study selection criteria included inclusion and exclusion criteria whose main key words were Articles with one of the following keywords HIV/AIDS Care quality, Health care quality in Kenya, Health care quality in Finland, HIV/AIDS structural care quality in Kenya and Finland, HIV/AIDS Process care quality in Kenya and Finland, HIV/AIDS outcome care quality in Kenya and Finland. More than 1000 articles were identified from the various scientific databases. The articles were included if they were in English lan-guage, were published later than 2007 and if they were full text. The study focused on empirical studies which narrowed the investigation to ten articles.
The findings showed that Finland had the best care quality that was exemplified in the number of facilities in a municipality; this was unlike in Kenya where the study found that healthcare workers were not well remunerated which significantly affected their per-formance. However, there are limited or very few studies whose focus has been on HIV/AIDS care and how it can be addressed to reduced mortality rates among people living with HIV/AIDS .The study noted that there were free diagnoses, tests and ARV treatments in Finland which made the patients perceive quality of care in the hospitals where they were treated. On the contrary in Kenya, there were challenges in the diagno-ses of patients as well as in the recommendation of treatments since in most instances es-pecially in rural areas there was scarcity of specialists and it was nurses who were diag-nosing and treating patients.
The study was conducted as a literature review to investigate the research questions. The study selection criteria included inclusion and exclusion criteria whose main key words were Articles with one of the following keywords HIV/AIDS Care quality, Health care quality in Kenya, Health care quality in Finland, HIV/AIDS structural care quality in Kenya and Finland, HIV/AIDS Process care quality in Kenya and Finland, HIV/AIDS outcome care quality in Kenya and Finland. More than 1000 articles were identified from the various scientific databases. The articles were included if they were in English lan-guage, were published later than 2007 and if they were full text. The study focused on empirical studies which narrowed the investigation to ten articles.
The findings showed that Finland had the best care quality that was exemplified in the number of facilities in a municipality; this was unlike in Kenya where the study found that healthcare workers were not well remunerated which significantly affected their per-formance. However, there are limited or very few studies whose focus has been on HIV/AIDS care and how it can be addressed to reduced mortality rates among people living with HIV/AIDS .The study noted that there were free diagnoses, tests and ARV treatments in Finland which made the patients perceive quality of care in the hospitals where they were treated. On the contrary in Kenya, there were challenges in the diagno-ses of patients as well as in the recommendation of treatments since in most instances es-pecially in rural areas there was scarcity of specialists and it was nurses who were diag-nosing and treating patients.