Poverty and access to health care in Ghana: the challenge of bridging the equity gap with health insurance

dc.contributor.advisor	Williams, John J.
dc.contributor.author	Alatinga, Kennedy A.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-14T12:40:03Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-14T12:40:03Z
dc.date.issued	2014
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3852
dc.description	Philosophiae Doctor - PhD	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This study addresses the issue of the low participation in or enrolment of the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The low enrolment of the poor in the NHIS is attributed to the difficulty in identifying who qualifies for exemptions from paying health insurance premiums. In an attempt to address this problem, the purpose of this study was, therefore, to develop a model for identifying very poor households for health insurance premium exemptions in the Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana in an effort to increase their access to equitable health care	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of the Western Cape	en_US
dc.subject	Poverty	en_US
dc.subject	Equity gap	en_US
dc.subject	Access to health	en_US
dc.subject	Health insurance	en_US
dc.subject	Health policy	en_US
dc.subject	Kassena- Nankana District	en_US
dc.subject	Navrongo	en_US
dc.subject	Ghana	en_US
dc.title	Poverty and access to health care in Ghana: the challenge of bridging the equity gap with health insurance	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.rights.holder	University of the Western Cape	en_US

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