This is the third round of the Kenya Greater Eldoret Health and Development Survey (GEHDS). The first round was conducted in 2004, and the second one in 2005. The data collected in the second and third rounds of the survey provide the longitudinal information necessary for examining changes in socio-economic status resulting from treatment.
This research project has several key objectives. First, the project intends to estimate the impact of various diseases (such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS) on the living standards of households living in the Eldoret area. Second, the project will study the effectiveness of treatments for these diseases in improving living standards. Third, the project will examine how households are responding to various illnesses and what kind of coping mechanisms they adopt. Information collected includes:
• Demographic characteristics of households, such as age and sex of household members
• Health and education of household members
• Marital characteristics of household members
• Economic activities of household members
• Household expenditures
• Housing characteristics of households
• Transfers, gifts, and loans to and from the household
• Height, weight, and vaccination information for household members
• Knowledge and behavior pertaining to various diseases (such as malaria and HIV/AIDS) – this includes sexual behavior.
Information from these households thus presents an opportunity to understand the health and socio-economic characteristics of the population served by the Mosoriot health centre. The Mosoriot Rural Health Training Centre is located approximately 25 kilometers south of Eldoret town and is the main health care provider in Kosirai Division. The health centre provides primary care services and is mainly an outpatient facility. In addition, a collaboration between Indiana University and the Moi University Faculty of Health Sciences has established an electronic medical record system (MMRS) at Mosoriot which contains a range of clinical information on all patients who visit the health centre (Hannan, et al. 2000). In 2001, this same collaboration also created the Academic Model for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS (AMPATH). AMPATH's first rural HIV clinic was opened in Mosoriot in November 2001 (Cohen, 2004). Beginning in late-2003, the HIV clinic at Mosoriot has experienced tremendous growth, with the number of patients rising from less than 100 in 2003 to over 800 as of October 2004 (AMPATH data).
Please note that links provided here are for Research Use files. For information regarding the original files, please see the Master Dataset page for Round 3.
Prior to downloading the dataset for the Kenya GHDES Round 3, a request must be made through the World Bank. The request form is located here.