What influences cancer treatment service access in Ghana? A critical interpretive synthesis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Multiple social-cultural and contextual factors influence access to and acceptance of cancer treatment in Ghana. The aim of this research was to assess existing literature on how these factors interplay and could be susceptible to local and national policy changes.

Design

This study uses a critical interpretive synthesis approach to review qualitative and quantitative evidence about access to adult cancer treatment services in Ghana, applying the socioecological model and candidacy framework.

Results

Our findings highlighted barriers to accessing cancer services within each level of the socioecological model (intrapersonal, interpersonal community, organisational and policy levels), which are dynamic and interacting, for example, community level factors inf

SUBMITTER: Tuck CZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9535186 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature