Equity aspects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana: Who is enrolling, who is not and why?

C Jehu-Appiah, G Aryeetey, E Spaan, T De Hoop… - Social science & …, 2011 - Elsevier
To improve equity in the provision of health care and provide risk protection to poor
households, low-income countries are increasingly moving to social health insurance. Using …

[HTML][HTML] Linking household and facility data for better coverage measures in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health care: systematic review

M Do, A Micah, L Brondi, H Campbell… - Journal of global …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Currently many measures of intervention coverage obtained from household
surveys do not measure actual health intervention/service delivery, resulting in a need for …

Household perceptions and their implications for enrolment in the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana

C Jehu-Appiah, G Aryeetey, I Agyepong… - Health policy and …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Objective This paper identifies, ranks and compares perceptions of insured and uninsured
households in Ghana on health care providers (quality of care, service delivery adequacy …

The impact of perceived stigma and mediating social factors on infertility-related stress among women seeking infertility treatment in Southern Ghana

ES Donkor, J Sandall - Social science & medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
This research aimed to investigate the extent to which women in Southern Ghana seeking
infertility treatment perceived themselves as stigmatised in order to investigate the …

The socio‐economic determinants of maternal health care utilization in Ghana

P Aseweh Abor, G Abekah‐Nkrumah… - International Journal of …, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–The study aims to examine the socio‐economic determinants of maternal health
services utilization in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach–Probit and ordered probit …

Effect of distance on utilization of health care services in rural Kogi State, Nigeria

TT Awoyemi, OA Obayelu, HI Opaluwa - Journal of human Ecology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Adequate and equitable distribution of health care facilities in rural areas is critical to human
capital development. The study determined factors influencing utilization of health facilities …

Perceived barriers to maternal and newborn health services delivery: a qualitative study of health workers and community members in low and middle-income settings

J Sumankuuro, J Crockett, S Wang - BMJ open, 2018 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives In considering explanations for poor maternal and newborn health outcomes,
many investigations have focused on the decision-making patterns and actions of expectant …

COVID-19 pandemic, a blessing or a curse for sales? A study of women entrepreneurs from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa community

S Muhammad, K Ximei, ZU Haq, I Ali… - Journal of Enterprising …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had profound economic effects, putting
women entrepreneurs at considerable risk of losing income and sales growth as a result …

Health-seeking behaviors and its determinants: a facility-based cross-sectional study in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

G Abuduxike, Ö Aşut, SA Vaizoğlu… - International journal of …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Understanding health-seeking behaviors and determining factors help
governments to adequately allocate and manage existing health resources. The aim of the …

Health insurance in Ghana: evaluation of policy holders' perceptions and factors influencing policy renewal in the Volta region

D Boateng, D Awunyor-Vitor - International journal for equity in health, 2013 - Springer
Background Health insurance is an important mechanism that succors individuals, states
and the nation at large. The purpose of this study was to assess individual's attitude towards …