utilization in Ghana through the use of antenatal care services. A number of studies have found that access to health insurance … social forces play in this decision. This study uses village-level data from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey to …

Enabling everybody to benefit from regulated financial services has become a global policy goal. However, while access … Ghana. It investigates, for the first time on a single country national dataset, the five sets of constraints on use of … constraints on account use in Ghana using individual level data from a nationally representative sample collected by Finscope in …

Introduction: Ghana introduced capitation payment under National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), beginning with pilot … regions of Ghana, one being an intervention region and two being control regions, over a 5-year period, 2010-2014. We … positive results. Health policy makers in Ghana may, therefore, want to consider capitation a key provider payment method for …

Health Insurance Schemes (NHIS) in Ghana affects the utilization of maternal health care services and medical out …-of-pocket expenses. Methods: We used nationally-representative household data from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS). We … status of women and their children, the health-care authorities in Ghana should make every effort to extend this coverage. In …