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Administrative Efficiency and Policy Failure: The National Health Insurance Scheme of Ghana in Perspective

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Efficiency – efficacy; Quality of care – Service quality or quality of service; Welfare

Definition

The National Health Insurance Scheme: The National Health Insurance Scheme is a social health insurance scheme to protect the insured against social risk – i.e., ill-health.

Efficacy: Inputs (either financial, structural, or infrastructural) provided by governments or stakeholders to derive quality of healthcare for the insured.

Wellbeing: Healthcare services delivered by providers to ensure that people have good health condition and working in safety.

Introduction

Globally, as countries move toward universal health coverage, healthcare financing through social health insurance is a very important tool in achieving the guaranteed universal financial protection that meets the health needs of populations, especially in developing countries. Thus, healthcare financing has become the crux of ongoing discourse on global development policy for social protection especially situated in...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Social Political and Historical Studies (SPHS), Faculty of Integrated Development Studies (FIDS), University for Development Studies, 520, Wa, Ghana

    Francis Nangbeviel Sanyare & Justine Guguneni Tuolong

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Correspondence to Francis Nangbeviel Sanyare .

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Sanyare, F.N., Tuolong, J.G. (2018). Administrative Efficiency and Policy Failure: The National Health Insurance Scheme of Ghana in Perspective. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20928-9_3307

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