Development policy planning in Ghana: The case of health care provision

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dc.contributor.authorAlatinga, Kennedy A.
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, John J.
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-07T15:43:35Z
dc.date.available2015-09-07T15:43:35Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the historical development of health policy in Ghana within the framework of financial, geographical accessibility and the availability of health care. Historically, health policy has been urban biased, and largely focused on financial accessibility. Even Nkrumah's free health care policy could not adequately address the problem of inadequate health professionals and facilities in the rural areas.The study also established that poverty is also largely a rural phenomenon.The poor benefit less from the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). This situation makes the NHIS lack social equity, the very reason for its being. We recommend that government should expand health facilities in the rural areas, and introduce attractive incentive packages to attract and retain health professionals in such areas. There is an urgent need for rigorous criteria to be developed by the NHIS to identify the very poor for health insurance premium exemptions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAlatinga, K. and Williams, J.J. (2014). Development policy planning in Ghana: The case of health care provision. European Scientific Journal, 10(33): 359-382en_US
dc.identifier.issn1857- 7431
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1585
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherEuropean Scientific Instituteen_US
dc.rightsThe “European Scientific Journal”, ESJ is a peer reviewed open access journal.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectGhanaen_US
dc.subjectHealth policyen_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectNational Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)en_US
dc.subjectHealth professionalsen_US
dc.subjectRural developmenten_US
dc.subjectRural areasen_US
dc.titleDevelopment policy planning in Ghana: The case of health care provisionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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