Social innovations to increase health coverage: evidence from a crowdsourcing contest in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite progress made to expand access to health service in Ghana, inequities still exist. Social innovations have been developed as community-engaged solutions to decrease inequities.

Methods

In partnership with a multistakeholder group, our social innovation team organised a crowdsourcing contest to identify health innovations in Ghana. Informed by a WHO-Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases framework, we organised a six-stage crowdsourcing challenge.

Results

In all, 13 innovations were received in the contest, while 2 innovations were rejected after initial screening. The 11 innovations were reviewed by a panel of four independent expert judges. Inter-rated reliability index (kappa) was 0.86. Following the review of the average

SUBMITTER: Dako-Gyeke P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9174772 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature