Challenges to achieving universal health coverage through community-based health planning and services delivery approach: a qualitative study in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Community-based initiatives have enormous potential to facilitate the attainment of universal health coverage (UHC) and health system development. Yet key gaps exist and threaten its sustainability in many low-income and middle-income countries. This study is first of its kind (following the launch of the Sustainable Developments Goal [SDG]) and aimed to holistically explore the challenges to achieving UHC through the community-based health planning and service (CHPS) initiative in Ghana.

Design

A qualitative study design was adopted to explore the phenomenon. Face-to-face indepth interviews were conducted from April 2017 until February 2018 through purposive and snowball sampling techniques. Data were analysed using inductive and deductive thematic analysis approa

SUBMITTER: Assan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398772 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature