Community-based Child Health Priorities in Bomachoge Borabu, Kisii, Kenya

Background: The Child Health Education Program is a graduate medical education program that trains Seattle- and Nairobi-based pediatric residents in community child health in Kisii County, Kenya. In the program’s tenth year, we entered a new sub-county, Bomachoge Borabu, to learn the community child health priorities, as well as identify and map existing assets and resources. Methods: The rapid mixed-methods assessment of community child health priorities included: free-listing questionnaires with caregivers (n=30); key informant interviews with sub-county administrative and healthcare leadership, healthcare workers, community health workers, and traditional healers (TH, n=12); focus …