Health in Colonial Ghana
Author | : Karl David Patterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Karl David Patterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : S. Kojo Addae |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Karima Saleh |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-12-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821395998 |
"... briefly discusses some of the debates in Ghana's health sector: decentralization and governance, private sector partnership, strengthening health systems, and health financing. It brings together several elements of health system development and challenges and links it to health financing and delivery performance. The volume reviews the situation among human resources for health and pharmaceuticals. The private sector is growing and attention is required on its development. The volume benefits from health service delivery assessments in the public and private sectors, and finds large variations in distribution and weak incentives to improve productivity and performance. It also reviews the demand side financing reform, its coverage of the population and its effect on service use and the financial sustainability of the National Health Insurance Scheme ..."--Publisher's website.
Author | : Kofi Barimah |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781974646197 |
Over the last few years, Ghanaians have been concerned about the safety and efficacy of traditional medicine. Quite recently, a Traditional Medicine Practice Council has been formed to regulate the practice of Traditional Medicine in Ghana with a view of eliminating the quacks in the health care delivery system. In this book, Barimah and Bonna examine the practice, problems and prospects of traditional medicine in Ghana with a focus on the best practices on traditional health systems and policy around the globe. The experiences of the authors in advocating for the inclusion of Traditional Medicine in the mainstream Ghanaian health care system are also highlighted.
Author | : P. A. Twumasi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Ghana |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alena Thiel |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9819735009 |
Author | : Ernest Owusu-Dapaa Esq |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2020-10-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Transcending the traditional compartments with which lawyers are familiar, medical law is concerned with issues arising from physician or doctor-patient relationship. Medical Law in Ghana - A Primer seeks to present an exposition of health care law and medical law in Ghana as embodied in both statutory and case law. It addresses the law dealing with doctor-patient relationship; confidentiality and access to medical records; medical education, professional regulation of doctors, nurses and pharmacists; assisted reproduction, euthanasia (assisted dying), clinical trials. After a general introduction, the book systematically describes law related to the medical profession, proceeding from training, licensing, and other aspects of access to the profession, through disciplinary and professional liability and medical ethics considerations and quality assurance, to such aspects of the physician (doctor)-patient relationship as rights and duties of physicians and patients, consent, privacy, and access to medical records. Also covered are specific issues such as organ transplants, human medical research, abortion, and euthanasia, as well as matters dealing with the physician in relation to other health care providers, health care insurance, and the health care system. This book is intended to serve as useful source of authoritative information and guide for lawyers, students, health care professionals and all those that have interest in the interface between law and medicine, medical law, bioethics and medical ethics. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to professional organizations of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and relevant government agencies. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Ghana will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its comparative value as a contribution to the study of medical law in the international context.
Author | : Emmanuel Evans-Anfom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Medical care |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kodjo Amedjorteh Senah |
Publisher | : Het Spinhuis |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9789055890729 |
Author | : Huihui Wang |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2017-08-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1464811180 |
Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was established in 2003 as a major vehicle to achieve the country’s commitment of Universal Health Coverage. The government has earmarked value-added tax to finance NHIS in addition to deduction from Social Security Trust (SSNIT) and premium payment. However, the scheme has been running under deficit since 2009 due to expansion of coverage, increase in service use, and surge in expenditure. Consequently, Ghana National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) had to reduce investment fund, borrow loans and delay claims reimbursement to providers in order to fill the gap. This study aimed to provide policy recommendations on how to improve efficiency and financial sustainability of NHIS based on health sector expenditure and NHIS claims expenditure review. The analysis started with an overall health sector expenditure review, zoomed into NHIS claims expenditure in Volta region as a miniature for the scheme, and followed by identifictation of factors affecting level and efficiency of expenditure. This study is the first attempt to undertake systematic in-depth analysis of NHIS claims expenditure. Based on the study findings, it is recommended that NHIS establish a stronger expenditure control system in place for long-term sustainability. The majority of NHIS claims expenditure is for outpatient consultations, district hospitals and above, certain member groups (e.g., informal group, members with more than five visits in a year). These distribution patterns are closely related to NHIS design features that encourages expenditure surge. For example, year-round open registration boosted adverse selection during enrollment, essentially fee-for-service provider mechanisms incentivized oversupply but not better quality and cost-effectiveness, and zero patient cost-sharing by patients reduced prudence in seeking care and caused overuse. Moreover, NHIA is not equipped to control expenditure or monitor effect of cost-containment policies. The claims processing system is mostly manual and does not collect information on service delivery and results. No mechanisms exist to monitor and correct providers’ abonormal behaviors, as well as engage NHIS members for and engaging members for information verification, case management and prevention.