UNIVERSAL healthcareHEALTH services accessibilityBackground: Health financing in Ghana aims for universal access to healthcare, with both public and private insurance schemes playing vital roles. The National H
Archives of Public Health (2017) 75:36 DOI 10.1186/s13690-017-0205-9 RESEARCH Open Access National health insurance accreditation pattern among private healthcare providers in Ghana Abena Agyeiwaa Lamptey1, Eric Nsiah-Boateng2, Samuel Agyei Agyemang2 and Moses Aikins2* Abstract Background: Health...
Definition: Share of current health expenditures funded from domestic private sources. Domestic private sources include funds from households, corporations and non-profit organizations. Such expenditures can be either prepaid to voluntary health insurance or paid directly to healthcare providers....
Extending health Insurance in Ghana: effects of the National Health Insurance Scheme on maternity care. Heal Econ Rev. 2016;6(1):7. Article Google Scholar Mackintosh M, Channon A, Karan A, Selvaraj S, Cavagnero E, Zhao H. What is the private sector? Understanding private provision in ...
Policy makers seeking to move health systems towards universal health coverage (UHC) must identify and ensure appropriate roles for private providers and for health markets.1, 2 This in turn requires a better understanding than is presently available of the characteristics of the private sector within...
Ghana%Healthcare access%Kenya%Low-income%Private providers%Social health insurance Small private providers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are well positioned to fill gaps in services to low-income populations using Social Hea... Lauren,Suchman - 《International Journal for Equity in ...
Further, the effects of income changes are likely to be different on healthcare expenditure in private and public sectors since co-payments (i.e. out-of-pocket) are generally higher for healthcare from private providers. Costa-Font et al. (2009) argued that "if healthca...
The wealthiest 15% of the population hold private health insurance (through membership in so-called medical aid schemes), and access generally high-quality care through private facilities and providers (often self-employed general practitioners in the case of primary care) (McIntyre and Ataguba, ...
Agyepong IA, Nagai RA."we charge them; otherwise we cannot run the hospital" front line workers, clients and health financing policy implementation gaps in Ghana. Health Policy. 2011;99:226–33. ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar Walker L, Gilson L. 'We are bitter but we are satisfied': nurses...
In malaria elimination settings, all malaria cases must be identified, documented and investigated. To facilitate complete and timely reporting of all malaria cases and effective case management and follow-up, engagement with private providers is essenti