Kenya

Methodological Considerations.- A. The Land and its Inhabitants.- I. Fundamentals of Physical Geography.- II. Demographic Basis.- III. Fundamentals of Settlement Geography.- IV. Fundamentals of Economic Geography.- V. Transport and Tourism.- B. Health Services in Kenya.- C. The Diseases of the Country.- Introduction: Source, Material, and Methods.- D. Economic and Socio-geographical Classification and the Patterns of Health Services and of Disease Occurrence.- 1. African Peasant and Pastoral Societies.- 2. Class Societies.- Conclusions.- Annex.- References.- Illustrations.- Annex: Tables.- Table I: Population according to tribes.- Table II: Small farms and settlement schemes - Estimated crop areas by rains cycle.- Table III: Large farms - Land utilization 1974.- Table IV: Quantiry and value of fish landed - selected years 1966 - 1972 and projected for 1978 -.- Table V: Visitor days in Kenya by country of residence of visitors and purpose of visit, 1971, 1972, 1978.- Table VI: Details on "Estimates of Recurrent Expenditures on Health" by the Ministry of Health.- Table VII: "Estimates of Recurrent Expenditures" of the Governmen t of Kenya 1968/69 1973/74.- Table VIII: Hospital and hospital-bed-ratio per province in relation to areas and population to be covered, Kenya, 1970.- Table IX: Health centres and dispensaries by operating agency and province, 1970, and health centre - dispensary - population ratio per province.- Table X: The present strength of medical officers in Government hospitals, 1974.- Table XI: Relative frequency of 4 helminths from stool examinations in 54 hospital laboratories in Kenya from "Annual Laboratory Returns" 1958 - 1973 (cumulative) grouped by hospitals with similar frequency distribution pattern.- Table XII:Schistosoma haematobium findings from urine examinations in 54 hospital laboratories in Kenya from "Annual Laboratory Returns" 1958 - 1973, cumulative, grouped by hospitals with similar frequency distribution pattern of intestinal