Does the national health insurance scheme in Ghana reduce household cost of treating malaria in the Kassena-Nankana districts

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dalaba, Maxwell Ayindenaba ^a   Akweongo, Patricia ^b   Aborigo, Raymond ^a,c   Awine, Timothy ^a   Azongo, Daniel Kweku ^a   Asaana, Prosper ^a   Atuguba, Frank ^a   Oduro, Abraham ^a  

^a NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

cost; Ghana; Kassena Nankana district; Malaria; National health insurance; Treatment seeking

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COST CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; COST SAVINGS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904369518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23848     Document Type: Article

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