Evaluating the impact of the National Health Insurance Fund oncology benefits package and a healthcare workers’ strike on time to cancer treatment initiation in Nairobi County, Kenya: An interrupted time series analysis

These results suggest that the oncology insurance scheme may not have reduced average TTI for the cancer patients as we had hypothesized. However, a healthcare workers' strike (based on corroboration with findings from the 2018 Kenya Household Health Expenditure and Utilization Survey), increased the average TTI among these patients. Data science techniques and ITSAs using cancer registry data is a cost-effective method to answer important population-level research questions in resource-limited settings.