Community concepts of poverty: An application to premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

Globalization and Health

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Aryeetey, Genevieve C ^a,d   Jehu Appiah, Caroline ^b,d   Kotoh, Agnes M ^a,e   Spaan, Ernst ^c   Arhinful, Daniel K ^d   Baltussen, Rob ^c   van der Geest, Sjaak ^e   Agyepong, Irene A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK   (Tunisia)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community participation; Exemptions; Ghana; Health insurance; Poor households; Targeting; Wealth ranking

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPLOYMENT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH POLICY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; OWNERSHIP; POLICY MAKING; POVERTY; RANKING; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; WELFARE PROVISION;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; EMPLOYMENT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOUSING; HUMAN; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

GHANA;

GHANA; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874933129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-12     Document Type: Article

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