Constraints on the functioning of Community-based Health Planning and Services facilities: A qualitative study in the Jirapa Municipality, Ghana.

ABSTRACT: The declaration of the Alma-Alta on primary health care (PHC) in 1978 enjoined nations to make health care accessible, affordable, and situated within their cultural contexts. The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS), as a strategy to achieve the goal of PHC, has shown significant successes in communities where it has been implemented. However, a number of challenges continue to affect the effective functioning of CHPS. This study explored the community level and health system constraints on the effective functioning of CHPS in the delivering of PHC services in the Jirapa Municipality. A qualitative approach was implemented. A criterion-based purposive sampling technique was employed to recruit 51 managers and health service providers of CHPS for key informant intervie

SUBMITTER: Kaburu RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10732441 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature