Background: Limited financial, human and material health resources coupled with increasing demand for new-born care services require efficiency in health systems to maximize the available sources for improved health outcomes. Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI) implemented by local and...

Background: Nearly four decades after the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978 on the need for active client/community participation in healthcare, not much has been achieved in this regard particularly in resource constrained countries like Ghana, where over 70 % of communities in rural areas access...

Foreword / Stephan Conermann -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contemporary Healthcare Isssues-Social, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives / Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Oluwatoyin Odeku -- A Reflection on Contemporary Economic, Social and Cultural Healthcare issues in Sub-Saharan...