Breast cancer is a global health concern in terms of morbidity and mortality. Risksharing mechanisms such as health insurance provide resources and promote access to healthcare. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between health insurance coverage and clinical outcome of breast cancer patients. The stud...
Background: Health care financing is one of the major challenges facing the healthcare delivery sector in Ghana. Health financing in Ghana prior to independence was predominantly by out-of-pocket payments at the point of service use. Since 2003, the country introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme as a mean to l...
Background: As part of Ghana’s initiatives to bridge the gap in the uneven distribution of healthcare resources and health services to achieve universal health coverage, the National Health Insurance Authority, through its Act 852, provides the gateway for the implementation of access to equitable healthcare for citize...
Background: It is expected that with the National Health Insurance Scheme in place, equitable access to healthcare will be assured for all groups of people because access to quality health insurance has shown to have an impact on households. This research assessed the factors associated with the uptake of NHIS among pr...
Health Insurance is a formal contractual arrangement between the insurer and the insured to the effect that the insurer provides cover for part or all healthcare cost of the insured as agreed between the two parties for a period of time. Ghana since 2003 has been implementing a National Health Insurance Scheme. Current...
Health care financing in Ghana has seen several changes since independence in 1957. Initially, central government used tax resource to finance all public sector health care services making it free for patients at public health care facilities. Due to economic stagnation during the early 1970s, the then government and s...
In Ghana, almost everyone recognized the fact that the payment of cash at the point of health service delivery popularly known as “cash and carry” posed a strong barrier to healthcare access and quality of healthcare for the majority of Ghanaians.(MOH 2003) This resulted in delays in seeking healthcare, non-compliance...
Health Insurance is a formal contractual arrangement between the insurer and the insured to the effect that the insurer provides cover for part or all healthcare cost of the insured as agreed between the two parties for a period of time. Ghana since 2003 has been implementing a National Health Insurance Scheme. Current...
The primary purpose of this study is to identify predictors of complete household enrollment into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) among inhabitants of the Barekese sub-district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Heads of households in 20 communities from the Barekuma Collaborative Community Project site were i...
The use of health insurance schemes in financing healthcare delivery and to minimize the poverty gap is gaining considerable recognition among the least developed and resource challenged countries around the world. With the implementation of the socialized health insurance scheme, Ghana has taken the lead in Sub-Sahara...
