Addressing Poverty and Improving Family Health in Kenya: Strategies

This report critically analyzes the impact of poverty on family health in Kenya, focusing on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1: No Poverty. It explores the country's overview, highlighting its geographical and demographic characteristics, and then delves into the significant challenges poverty poses to family health, including restricted access to medicine and increased health risks. The report examines the data related to poverty rates in Kenya, particularly among women and children, and discusses the targets and indicators for SDG 1. It synthesizes relevant literature to illustrate how poverty affects health outcomes, such as birth weight and access to quality healthcare, and its impact on mental health. The report also emphasizes the importance of addressing poverty for family well-being, including a more secure environment and improved access to essential resources. Finally, it provides recommendations and strategies, identifying both short-term and long-term solutions for achieving SDG 1 in the context of Kenya, with a focus on immediate actions for the future.

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Table of Contents
COUNTRY OVERVIEW................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

COUNTRY OVERVIEW
Kenya is the country which is located at the coast line of the Indian Ocean (Kenya
Overview, 2018). Kenya is one of the major country of Africa. Kenya used to encompasses
Savannah, lake lands, great rift valley and mountain highlands. Kenya has 580,367 square
kilometer covers under space which is equal to 224,081 square mi. Kenya is world 48th largest
country on the basis of the total area coverage of the country. Kenya capital and largest city is
the Nairobi, also the older city of the nation as well. Population as per the census 2019 of Kenya
is 47564296, which brings Kenya on the 29th position on the index of most populated country of
the world. Kenya is also known for the political stability which is there in the nation. At the
same time Kenya is rated very high on the crime index in the global market, reason behind the
same is the level of the poverty which is there in the nation. Also Kenya stands very high on the
health issue in the natio
MAIN BODY
Sustainable Development Goal
“No Poverty”, Poverty is one of the greatest challenges which is faced by the humanity in
Kenya as well as at global level. It is one of the biggest reasons which used to impact the health
of the family, as poverty restricts them to have medicines which is necessary for them to
overcome different health problem in the organization (Cichos and Salvia, 2019). In the recent
time poverty has fallen rapidly in many countries of Africa, and this is a good sign or step toward
Africa SDG, but still in the year 2016 there were more than million people who were still below
the poverty line in the Africa. This certainly means that they used to live on less than 1.90 US$ a
day. Africa is the continent which used to see the highest level of poverty in the nation, as data
shows that more than 80 percent of the people in that area are below poverty line. So, as
expected Kenya also lack behind on the poverty index at the global level (Miller, 2018). There
are 10 percent of the Kenyans who used to fall in the extreme poverty line and in total 17 percent
of the total population of Kenya used to fall below the poverty line. Asia is the nation which used
to come second in the amount of poverty present in the nation. Looking at the situation in Kenya,
data also shows that percentage of women under poverty line is more as compare to that of a man
in the nation, reason behind the same is that they used to get less pay from the employer and used
to has less property in their name. Traditional belief such as women need not to educate in the
Kenya is also promoting a good level of the poverty in the poor nation such as Kenya. Also, it

has been find out that more than 50% of the poor population in the world are below the age of 18
years (Racine, 2016).
Targets
Indicator is the target which has been selected to overcome the different challenges of no
poverty at the global level. Targets are, eradicating extreme level of poverty all over the world
by the end of 2030. (people who used to live on less than $1.25 US per day belongs to the
extreme poverty line). To reduce the poverty up-to half in the proportion for men, women and
children by the end of the year 2030. By the end of 2030 all the men and women at the global
level is having a good sort of control over the land and the other 13 forms of the poverty at the
global level (Lawlor et.al., 2019). By the end of 2030 builds the resilience of the poor and try to
reduce their exposure to variety of the different climate related condition, disaster and shocks.
Secondary target to achieve the SDG is to make sure that mobilization of the different resources
which help the nation in providing the adequate and predictable means of development of the
different developing country and also to create the different sound policy or the framework at the
national, regional and international level, so that it used to support the nation in poverty
education. There are 36.1 percent of individual in the nation who are below poverty line in
Kenya. 16.4 million Were living below the poverty line. Out of 36.1 percent 22.8 percent are
female and remaining is male.
Literature point of view
Reducing poverty in the Kenya help the nation in reducing the level of health risk in the
nation, as it will provide good sort of money in the hand people it will help the individual and
their family in reducing the level of the food scarcity in the nation as it will help the family in
procure expenses medicine to overcome illness or health issue which is faced by the individual in
Kenya. At the same time Felician ( 2019) highlights that Kenya is the nation which used to see
health issue in the nation from the birth of the children itself. As it has been seen that birth
weight of the Kenya children is way less and poor financial stability used to impact the health of
children from birth itself. Reason behind the same is poor health condition of the parents for the
children and poor health of partner for the individual. Having good amount of money will help
parent in Kenya to provide good and healthy life to different children in the nation.

Reducing poverty in the Kenya helps nation in getting better quality of the product to be
health issues offered to the public of the nation for their consumption. This eventually used to
enhance the quality of life of all the people in the nation. As good amount of income in the hand
of Kenyan people invites global provider to the nation. Cichos and Salvia (2019) highlights that
there are many different type of diseases which used to impact the people of the nation due to the
scarcity of the good quality of the water and food in the nation.
Reducing poverty in the nation also help the organization in overcoming the issue related
to the mental health of the individual. As person who is not under the poverty line of the nation is
more stress free and feel comfortable to take different decision in an organization. Poortinga,
(2019) highlights that mental health of the individual used to reflect the same on the family of
the individual, as it has seen that Kenya's youth mental health is also very adversely impacted
due to the high level of the poverty in the nation. This eventually increases the chances of mental
disability among the different consumer of the nation.
Important to family health
No poverty is one of the important aspect for all the family in the long run, as it has seen
that no poverty in Kenya will help the family of the Kenya in getting more standard life in simple
words quality of life can be improved. This will lower down the health issue for family. As
report suggest that 24 percent of the health issue generally occur due to not that sound
surrounding for the family. So reducing poverty in the nation will help the family of Kenya in
getting more secure environment in the nation (Efendi et.al., 2017). Reducing poverty in the
nation will also help the family in having better amount of the income with them in the nation.
This helps the company in having good quality medicines for different health issue which can be
faced by them in the Kenya. As having money will help them in investing the same toward
defending the different challenges thrown by the health issue in the Kenya. Also reducing the
level of the poverty in Kenya will help the company in getting exposure to the better quality of
the product in Kenya, as explained by the author also that having good amount of money in the
nation, will eventually used to attract the eye of the different global firm in the nation. This will
eventually help the nation in improving the level of life of Kenyan family in the market. As
report suggest that the consumer who is having better living standard are less impacted by the
diseases as compare to the other who is having poor living standard in the nation (Racine, 2016).

REFERENCES
Lawlor, K., Sills, E., Atmadja, S., Lin, L. and Songwathana, K., 2019. SDG 1: No Poverty–
Impacts of Social Protection, Tenure Security and Building Resilience on
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Feliciano, D., 2019. A review on the contribution of crop diversification to Sustainable
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Cichos, K. and Salvia, A. L., 2019. Prelims', SDG1–No Poverty (Concise Guides to the United
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Poortinga, W., 2019. Health and social outcomes of housing policies to alleviate fuel poverty. In
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Efendi, A et.al., 2017. The Impact of Health and Education on Poverty Reduction: A Causal
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Racine, A. D., 2016. Child poverty and the health care system. Academic Pediatrics. 16(3).
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ONLINE
Kenya Overview, 2018 [ONLINE] Available through
https://www.britannica.com/place/Kenya.
PART ONE: 3000 word assignment (50% marks)
• Critically analyse the topic/SDG using relevant research/data and literature
that is relevant to the host country.
• Include why the topic/SDG is important to family health.
• Include challenges, barriers, strategies and solutions for the topic/SDG in the
host country including non-achievement of the related MDG if appropriate. GBD
data should also be included.
• Identify short and long strategies and solutions for the achievement of the
SDG in the context of the chosen country.
• Recommendations and action for the immediate future should be included in
the summary. One of these recommendations will be taken forward in part 2.