The impact of a health systems strengthening initiative on child morbidity: The case of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program in rural northern Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Improving child and maternal health remains a core objective of global health priorities, extending from the millennium development goal (MDG) era to the current focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs). This paper analyses the childhood morbidity effects of the Ghana Essential Heath Interventions Program (GEHIP), a community-based health systems strengthening in rural northern Ghana. GEHIP was a five-year embedded implementation science plausibility trial that implemented a set of health systems strengthening strategies and tested the proposition that their combined effect at the district, subdistrict and community levels could foster effective community engagement and thereby improve maternal and child health outcomes.

Methods

A two stage random sample

SUBMITTER: Asuming PO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9165816 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature