Assessing participation in a community-based health planning and services programme in Ghana

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Baatiema, Leonard ^a,b   Skovdal, Morten ^b,c   Rifkin, Susan ^b   Campbell, Catherine ^b  

^a Integrated Social Development Centre   (Ghana)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c SAVE THE CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community Participation; Ghana; Health Planning; Primary Health Care; Programme Evaluation; Spider grams

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GHANA; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84879456977     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-233     Document Type: Article

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