Across Kenya's working population, a quiet paradox has taken hold: the very feeling of wellness has become the primary reason people forgo the screenings that might reveal otherwise invisible illness. A survey of 1,100 adults found that nearly three in four skip health checks not because of cost or inconvenience, but because they feel fine — a conflation of comfort with safety that leaves conditions like hypertension and diabetes to develop unseen. In a country where awareness of health indicators is genuinely high, the gap between knowing and doing points to something deeper than access: a cu