James Tumaini Kengia

Biographic Data

ID7801682
NAMEJames Tumaini Kengia
GIVEN NAMESJames Tumaini
FAMILY NAMEKengia
SIGNATUREKENGIA J T
AFFILIATIONSMinistry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children
ORCID0000-0002-2384-4586
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The effectiveness of community engagement using M-Mama champions in improving awareness of obstetric danger signs, birth preparedness and complication readiness among pregnant women in Bahi, Dodoma

    Open AccessAlex Sanga, Stephen M Kibusi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality remains a catastrophic condition for reproductive-age women in Tanzania. Inadequate ANC visits impair the efficiency of education programs for pregnant women on obstetric danger signs, birth preparedness and complication readiness, hence negatively influencing health behaviour and decision-making processes, contributing to maternal mortality. In this case, a complementary health education intervention for pregnant w…

  • Effect of financial health risk protection education on health insurance knowledge and enrollment willingness among rural households in Tanzania

    Open AccessVictoria Odemary Lyimo, Clement Sobe Morabu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Many countries have introduced health insurance schemes to accelerate progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and improve access to healthcare. However, limited awareness of catastrophic health expenditures and the risk of impoverishment from healthcare costs may hinder enrollment. In Tanzania, these gaps underscore the importance of financial health risk protection education as a strategy to enhance insurance knowledge and enrollment wil…

  • Health care workers’ self-perceived infection risk and Covid-19 vaccine uptake

    Open AccessKasusu Nyamuryekung’e, Maryam Amour et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Vaccination is the most cost-effective way of preventing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) although there was a considerable delay in its institution in Tanzania. This study assessed health care workers’ (HCWs) self-perceived infection risk and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. A concurrent embedded, mixed methods design was utilized to collect data among HCWs in seven Tanzanian regions. Quantitative data was collected using a validated, pre-piloted…

  • Understanding the implication of direct health facility financing on health commodities availability in Tanzania

    Open AccessGeorge M Ruhago, Michael B John et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The Government of Tanzania (GoT) has in the last decade made progress in strengthening the health system financing with progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The major reforms includes development of the health financing strategy, reforming the Community Health Fund (CHF) and introduction of the Direct Health Facility Financing (DHFF). DHFF was introduced in all district councils in the 2017/18 financial year. One of the anticipated g…

  • Community-based transport system in Shinyanga, Tanzania

    Open AccessCastory Munishi, Gilbert Mateshi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    In achieving the sustainable development goal 3.1, Tanzania needs substantial investment to address the three delays which responsible for most of maternal deaths. To this end, the government of Tanzania piloted a community-based emergency transport intervention to address the second delay through m-mama program. This study examined secondary data to determine the cost-effectiveness of this intervention in comparison to the standard ambulance sys…

  • The public health sector supply chain costs in Tanzania

    Open AccessGeorge M Ruhago, Frida N Ngalesoni et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Tanzania’s supply chain system is a complicated web of integrated and vertical systems, covering essential and vertical programs health commodities, laboratory and diagnostics, equipment, and supplies. Despite significant improvement in the supply chain over the decades, the availability of medicines has remained uneven. Therefore, identifying the cost of operating the supply chain is vital to facilitate allocation of adequate finances to run the…

  • Gendered health impacts of industrial gold mining in northwestern Tanzania

    Open AccessAndrea Leuenberger, Fadhila Kihwele et al.ARTICLEImpact Assessment and Project…2021

    Mining projects affect the health of surrounding communities by inducing environmental, economic, social and cultural changes in different population groups. Health impact assessment (HIA) offers an opportunity to manage these impacts. This paper aims to explore gender differences of impacts on the wider determinants of health as described by communities impacted by industrial gold mining and consider the implications for impact assessment. We co…