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Faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) commonly have as their stated mission a desire to provide quality health services to … services more affordable. However, it suggests that in current African health contexts, FIIs may no longer be that different …
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The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …
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predict a range of health-related behaviors and outcomes. What can be said about patient satisfaction with faith … satisfaction of patients with FII-health services in Africa today. Second, we present new evidence from household surveys in six …
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The Christian Health Association of Ghana is the largest federation of faith-inspired provider of health services in … data from the Ministry of Health. Using poverty mapping techniques and simple regression analysis, this paper aims to …
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provided by faith-inspired health care providers in Ghana: how satisfied are patients with the services received?; and why are …
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This paper has two objectives. The first is to provide a review of the discourses about the religious response to HIV/AIDS in Africa that have emerged from the recent literature, how these discourses has changed over time (from religiophobia to a cautious recognition of the comparative value of...
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services provided by faith-inspired health care providers in Ghana, asking: (1) what is the market share of faith …
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incidence analysis of public spending for health. District-level financial data on public transfers are combined with household … survey data on the use of various types of facilities by the population to assess whether public health spending reaches …-between. Public health funding is also found to be regressive, in large part because hospitals and clinics still benefited the better …
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for individuals to seek care in faith-inspired health facilities is the fact that the cost of care is lower than in public …
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lead households to rely on traditional as opposed to modern health providers, and within modern providers, on faith … traditional healers for specific health issues that they encounter. As to the choice between modern providers, faith …, especially for those who for feel marginalized in the public health system. …
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