Forecast of Healthcare Facilities and Health Workforce Requirements for the Public Sector in Ghana, 2016-2026.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ghana is implementing activities towards universal health coverage (UHC) as well as the attainment of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the health sector by the year 2030. Aside lack of empirical forecast of the required healthcare facilities to achieve these mandates, health workforce deficits are also a major threat. We therefore modelled the needed healthcare facilities in Ghana and translated it into year-by-year staffing requirements based on established staffing standards.

Methods

Two levels of modelling were used. First, a predictive model based on Markov processes was used to estimate the future healthcare facilities needed in Ghana. Second, the projected healthcare facilities were translated into aggregate staffing requirements us

SUBMITTER: Asamani JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6326637 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature