Health insurance determines antenatal, delivery and postnatal care utilisation: Evidence from the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveillance data

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Browne, Joyce L ^a   Kayode, Gbenga A ^a   Arhinful, Daniel ^b   Fidder, Samuel A J ^a   Grobbee, Diederick E ^a   Klipstein Grobusch, Kerstin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b University of Ghana   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSTETRIC DELIVERY; PREGNANCY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84962272004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008175     Document Type: Article

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