Brenda N Mukungu
Biographic Data
| ID | 2066470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda N Mukungu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukungu |
| SIGNATURE | MUKUNGU B N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nairobi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Step up, step down, step out
Community health is a long-established approach to accessing healthcare, the face of which is female. In the case of rural Isiolo, Kenya, the majority of community health volunteers are men. To understand why, we historicise the move to capitalist work economies in Kenya’s pastoralist north, offering a ‘step up’, ‘step down’ framework to explain the gendering of work in urban versus rural settings. We draw on demographic data from Isiolo’s ∼760 c…
Fever pitch
In January 2022, a number of Yellow Fever cases were identified in Kenya's Isiolo County for the first time, triggering a national-level response centred on vaccinating residents. 181,000 people were vaccinated in July, around 72% of the eligible population. In the face of this ostensible success, this article explores the continuing coloniality, that is, long-standing patterns of domination, operating within disease control in Kenya's northeast,…
Our hands are bound
An ideal model of Community Health Worker (CHW) selection has existed since long before Alma Ata catalysed the community health approach, dating to late colonial times. In this model, a willing, trusted, relatively well-educated and secure member of the community with proven aptitude is openly elected by their leadership, peers or relevant committee. Their participation is entirely voluntary and that voluntarism is symbolic of their community's p…
Our hands are bound
An ideal model of Community Health Worker (CHW) selection has existed since long before Alma Ata catalysed the community health approach, dating to late colonial times. In this model, a willing, trusted, relatively well-educated and secure member of the community with proven aptitude is openly elected by their leadership, peers or relevant committee. Their participation is entirely voluntary and that voluntarism is symbolic of their community's p…
Our hands are bound
An ideal model of Community Health Worker (CHW) selection has existed since long before Alma Ata catalysed the community health approach, dating to late colonial times. In this model, a willing, trusted, relatively well-educated and secure member of the community with proven aptitude is openly elected by their leadership, peers or relevant committee. Their participation is entirely voluntary and that voluntarism is symbolic of their community's p…
Fever pitch
In January 2022, a number of Yellow Fever cases were identified in Kenya's Isiolo County for the first time, triggering a national-level response centred on vaccinating residents. 181,000 people were vaccinated in July, around 72% of the eligible population. In the face of this ostensible success, this article explores the continuing coloniality, that is, long-standing patterns of domination, operating within disease control in Kenya's northeast,…
Step up, step down, step out
Community health is a long-established approach to accessing healthcare, the face of which is female. In the case of rural Isiolo, Kenya, the majority of community health volunteers are men. To understand why, we historicise the move to capitalist work economies in Kenya’s pastoralist north, offering a ‘step up’, ‘step down’ framework to explain the gendering of work in urban versus rural settings. We draw on demographic data from Isiolo’s ∼760 c…
Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Community health (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Autonomy (1 work) · Context (archaeology (1 work) · Environmental health (1 work) · Ethnography (1 work) · Focus group (1 work) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work)