Trends and projections of universal health coverage indicators in Ghana, 1995-2030: A national and subnational study.

ABSTRACT: Ghana has made significant stride towards universal health coverage (UHC) by implementing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2003. This paper investigates the progress of UHC indicators in Ghana from 1995 to 2015 and makes future predictions up to 2030 to assess the probability of achieving UHC targets. National representative surveys of Ghana were used to assess health service coverage and financial risk protection. The analyses estimated the coverage of 13 prevention and four treatment service indicators at the national level and across wealth quintiles. In addition, we calculated catastrophic health payments and impoverishment to assess financial hardship and used a Bayesian regression model to estimate trends and future projections as well as the probabilities of achieving

SUBMITTER: Zhang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6530887 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature