National health insurance scheme enrolment and antenatal care among women in ghana: Is there any relationship?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 98-106

  Dixon, Jenna ^a   Tenkorang, Eric Y ^b   Luginaah, Isaac N ^a   Kuuire, Vincent Z ^a   Boateng, Godfred O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenatal care; Ghana; Health insurance; Maternal; Women

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH INSURANCE; NATIONAL PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE; POVERTY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

GHANA;

ANTENATAL CARE; GHANA; HEALTH INSURANCE; MATERNAL; WOMEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PROPENSITY SCORE; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890567723     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12223     Document Type: Article

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