Costs, equity, efficiency and feasibility of identifying the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of various strategies

Autor: Irene Akua Agyepong, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Genevieve Cecilia Aryeetey, Ernst Spaan, Rob Baltussen

Publikováno v: Tropical Medicine & International Health. 17:43-51

Objectives To analyse the costs and evaluate the equity, efficiency and feasibility of four strategies to identify poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS): means testing (MT), proxy means testing (PMT

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02886.x

Ownership and technical efficiency of hospitals: evidence from Ghana using data envelopment analysis

Autor: Frank Nyonator, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Serufusa Sekidde, Rob Baltussen, James Akazili, Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Selassi D Almeida, Martin Adjuik, Eyob Zere Asbu

Publikováno v: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation : C/E
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 12, 1, pp. 9
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 12, 9

Contains fulltext : 136454.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) BACKGROUND: In order to measure and analyse the technical efficiency of district hospitals in Ghana, the specific objectives of this study were to (a) estimate the relative technic

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24708886

Costs, equity, efficiency and feasibility of identifying the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of various strategies

Autor: Genevieve Cecilia, Aryeetey, Caroline, Jehu-Appiah, Ernst, Spaan, Irene, Agyepong, Rob, Baltussen

Publikováno v: Tropical medicineinternational health : TMIH. 17(1)

To analyse the costs and evaluate the equity, efficiency and feasibility of four strategies to identify poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS): means testing (MT), proxy means testing (PMT), particip

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21951306

Identification of poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of three strategies

Autor: Genevieve Cecilia, Aryeetey, Caroline, Jehu-Appiah, Ernst, Spaan, Ben, D'Exelle, Irene, Agyepong, Rob, Baltussen

Publikováno v: Tropical medicineinternational health : TMIH. 15(12)

To evaluate the effectiveness of three alternative strategies to identify poor households: means testing (MT), proxy means testing (PMT) and participatory wealth ranking (PWR) in urban, rural and semi-urban settings in Ghana. The primary motivation w

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21044234

Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Health Priorities in Ghana: The Use of Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Autor: Jeremy A. Lauer, William K. Bosu, Samuel Adjei, Salassi Amah d'Almeida, Caroline Jehu-Appiah, Dan Osei, Moses Aikins, Charles Acquah, Xander Koolman, Rob Baltussen

Publikováno v: Value in Health, 11(7), 1081-1087. Elsevier
Value in Health, 11, 7, pp. 1081-7
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Jehu-Appiah, C, Baltussen, R, Acquah, C, Aikins, M, d'Almeida, S A, Bosu, W K, Koolman, A H E, Lauer, J, Osei, D & Adjei, S 2008, ' Balancing Equity and Efficiency in Health Priorities in Ghana: The Use of Multicriteria Decision Analysis ', Value in Health, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 1081-1087 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1524-4733.2008.00392.x
Value in Health, 11, 1081-7

Objectives: To guide the Ministry of Health in Ghana in the priority setting of interventions by quantifying the trade-off between equity, efficiency, and other societal concerns in health. Methods: The study applied a multicriteria decision analytic

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