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dc.contributor.authorEscribano-Ferrer, Blanca
dc.contributor.authorCluzeau, Francoise
dc.contributor.authorCutler, Derek
dc.contributor.authorAkufo, Christiana
dc.contributor.authorChalkidou, Kalipso
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-28T03:26:08Z
dc.date.available2022-03-28T03:26:08Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.issn2616-163X
dc.identifier.doi10.4314/gmj.v50i4.7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/413568
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Ghana has made major strides in improving access to health services. Despite these improvements, Ghana did not meet the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5. Quality of care is a major factor that could explain this shortfall. OBJECTIVE: To understand current practice and to identify needs in the area of quality of care in Ghana for improving health outcomes and to guide the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in supporting the care quality improvement efforts in Ghana. METHODS: The directory of existing standards, guidelines and protocols of the Ghana Health Service was reviewed and sixteen in-depth interviews were conducted to identify interventions that addressed quality of care. Additional information was obtained during a NICE scoping visit to Accra followed by a study tour of Ghanaian stakeholders to NICE and to the National Health Service. RESULTS: Since 1988, 489 policy interventions have been identified that address quality of care. Among them, the development of health protocols and guidelines were the most frequent interventions (n=150), followed by health policies and strategies (n=106); interventions related to health information (n=77); development of training manuals and staff training (n=69); development of regulations (n=38) and interventions related to organisation of services (n=15). CONCLUSIONS: Ghana has made significant efforts in developing guidelines, policies and conducting in-service training. Supervision, monitoring and evaluation have also received attention. However, less effort has been made in developing processes and systems and involving communities and service users. Some recommendations were made to guide the future work on quality of care. FUNDING: Rockefeller Foundation.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAfrican Journals Online (AJOL)
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom238
dc.relation.ispartofpageto247
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGhana Medical Journal
dc.relation.ispartofvolume50
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth policy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440706
dc.subject.keywordsGhana
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology Assessments/biomedical
dc.subject.keywordsguideline/clinical protocol
dc.subject.keywordsin-service training
dc.subject.keywordspolicy
dc.titleQuality of Health Care in Ghana: Mapping of Interventions and the Way Forward
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationEscribano-Ferrer, B; Cluzeau, F; Cutler, D; Akufo, C; Chalkidou, K, Quality of Health Care in Ghana: Mapping of Interventions and the Way Forward, Ghana Medical Journal, 2016, 50 (4), pp. 238-247
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2022-03-25T05:23:59Z
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gro.griffith.authorChalkidou, Kalipso


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