A qualitative appraisal of stakeholders' perspectives of a community-based primary health care program in rural Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) initiative is a national strategy for improving access to primary health care services for underserved communities. Following a successful trial in the North Eastern part of the country, CHPS was adopted as Ghana's flagship programme for achieving the Universal Health Coverage. Recent empirical evidence suggests, however, that scale-up of CHPS has not necessarily replicated the successes of the pilot study. This study examines the community's perspective of the performance of CHPS and how the scale up could potentially align with the original experimental study.

Method

Applying a qualitative research methodology, this study analysed transcripts from 20 focus group discussions (FGDs) in four functional C

SUBMITTER: Kushitor MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6751899 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature