Background: The population of Ghana is increasingly becoming urbanized with about 70 % of the estimated 26.9 million people living in urban and peri-urban areas. Nonetheless, eight out of the ten regions in Ghana remain predominantly rural where only 32.1 % of the national health sector...

Background: Utilization of healthcare in Ghana’s novel National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been increasing since inception with associated high claims bill which threatens the scheme’s financial sustainability. This paper investigates the presence of adverse selection by assessing...

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...