How Entrepreneurial Theories Contribute to improving of Health outcomes in the Community

Community Health Workers play an important role in the community strategy program in Kenya. They drive the crucial role of broadening access and coverage of health services in remote areas and undertake actions that lead to improved health outcomes. However, a lot of concentration on improvement of health outcome through this cadre of health workers has been purely a human health science issue and the progress of the process has been a bit slow. On the other hand, CHWs potentials have also not been fully utilized due to their low economic status. The Great Lakes University of Kisumu health outcome framework used in the community partnership sites as the background –proximate-outcome framework describes health outcomes in terms of background factors, namely; demographic, socio-cultural, environmental, food-security, health systems. The proximate factors are the health seeking behavior and life style i.e preventive and curative measures. The knowledge gap in the model is the force pushing the background components to influence health performance. Studies have shown the importance of having forces pushing the background factors to influence health outcomes. The One possible force is the driver influencing the socio-economic factors. The objective of the study was to inject an entrepreneurial model into the existing health model to drive the socio-economic aspect in the hope of improving the CHWs economic status and the community health outcomes.