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" We charge them; otherwise we cannot run the hospital" front line workers, clients and health financing policy implementation gaps in Ghana

scientific article published on 10 November 2010

'It's far too complicated': why fragmentation persists in global health

scientific article published on 09 July 2020

'The one with the purse makes policy': Power, problem definition, framing and maternal health policies and programmes evolution in national level institutionalised policy making processes in Ghana

scientific article published on 31 August 2016

A Systems View and Lessons from the Ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Outbreak in West Africa

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A comparative study of clinical and sociocultural aspects of anaemia among adolescent girls in rural Ghana.

scientific article published in May 1997

Addressing the fragmentation of global health: the Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion

scientific article published on 07 September 2018

Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: Provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme - a systems approach

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Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: Realist evaluation of the Leadership Development Programme for district manager decision-making in Ghana

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An exploratory case study of the organizational functioning of a decision-making and referral support call center for frontline providers of maternal and new born care in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

Boundary-spanning: reflections on the practices and principles of Global Health.

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Building the field of health policy and systems research: An agenda for action

scientific article published in August 2011

Building the field of health policy and systems research: Framing the questions

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Building the field of health policy and systems research: social science matters

scientific article published in August 2011

Can an mhealth clinical decision-making support system improve adherence to neonatal healthcare protocols in a low-resource setting?

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

Capacity, committed funding and co-production-institutionalizing implementation research in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Care Decision Making of Frontline Providers of Maternal and Newborn Health Services in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Challenges in provider payment under the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: a case study of claims management in two districts

scientific article published on December 2012

Client factors affect provider adherence to clinical guidelines during first antenatal care

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Community concepts of poverty: An application to premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

Completeness and accuracy of data transfer of routine maternal health services data in the greater Accra region

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Contextual risk factors for low birth weight: A multilevel analysis

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Continuous quality improvement in public health in Ghana: CQI as a model for primary health care management and delivery.

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Costs, equity, efficiency and feasibility of identifying the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of various strategies

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Development and validation of a prediction model for gestational hypertension in a Ghanaian cohort

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Efficiency, equity and feasibility of strategies to identify the poor: An application to premium exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana

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Equity aspects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana: Who is enrolling, who is not and why?

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Erratum to: Pathways to psychiatric care for mental disorders: a retrospective study of patients seeking mental health services at a public psychiatric facility in Ghana

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

Facilitators And Barriers To Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Adolescents In Ghana

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Ghana's community-based primary health care: Why women and children are 'disadvantaged' by its implementation

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Health policy, health systems research and analysis capacity assessment of the school of public health, University of Ghana

scientific article published in September 2015

Health worker (internal customer) satisfaction and motivation in the public sector in Ghana

scientific article published in October 2004

Household perceptions and their implications for enrollment in the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana

scientific article published on 18 April 2011

How and why front-line health workers (did not) use a multifaceted mHealth intervention to support maternal and neonatal healthcare decision-making in Ghana

research work

I used to fight with them but now I have stopped!: Conflict and doctor-nurse-anaesthetists' motivation in maternal and neonatal care provision in a specialist referral hospital

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Identification of poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: Empirical analysis of three strategies

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Implementation of medicines pricing policies in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review

scientific article published on 23 February 2021

Implementation research on sustainable electrification of rural primary care facilities in Ghana and Uganda

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Implementation research: what it is and how to do it.

scientific article published on 20 November 2013

Improved prediction of gestational hypertension by inclusion of placental growth factor and pregnancy associated plasma protein-a in a sample of Ghanaian women

scholarly article

Improving access to early treatment of malaria: a trial with primary school teachers as care providers.

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Improving adherence to malaria treatment for children: The use of pre-packed chloroquine tablets vs. chloroquine syrup

scientific article published on July 2001

Improvisation and harm avoidance: An ethnographic study of adherence to postnatal care protocols in two hospitals in Southern Ghana

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

Incidence of adverse events among healthcare workers following H1N1 Mass immunization in Ghana: a prospective study.

scientific article published on April 2013

Incorporating research evidence into decision-making processes: researcher and decision-maker perceptions from five low- and middle-income countries.

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Individual and community determinants of neonatal mortality in Ghana: A multilevel analysis

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Introducing vouchers for malaria prevention in Ghana and Tanzania: context and adoption of innovation in health systems

scientific article published on October 2012

Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion ⬇️

Leadership styles in two Ghanaian hospitals in a challenging environment

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Learning health systems: an empowering agenda for low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Making sense of health estimates

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Malaria: ethnomedical perceptions and practice in an Adangbe farming community and implications for control.

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Management of mutual health organizations in Ghana.

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Maternal body mass index and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A ghanaian cohort study

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

Measuring Regional and District Variations in the Incidence of Pregnancy-induced Hypertension (PIH) in Ghana: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications for Maternal and Newborn Health Policy and Programs

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Measuring regional and district variations in the incidence of pregnancy-induced hypertension in Ghana: Challenges, opportunities and implications for maternal and newborn health policy and programmes

research work

Mosquito avoidance and bed net use in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana

scientific article published in January 1999

Mothers' reproductive and medical history misinformation practices as strategies against healthcare providers' domination and humiliation in maternal care decision-making interactions: an ethnographic study in Southern Ghana.

scientific article published on 3 July 2018

PP081. Predictors of pregnancy induced hypertension in an urban low resource setting

scientific article published on April 2013

Perinatal mortality among infants born during health user-fees (Cash & Carry) and the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) eras in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

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Perinatal outcomes after hypertensive disorders in pregnancy in a low resource setting

scientific article published on October 2015

Postings and transfers in the Ghanaian health system: a study of health workforce governance

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Pre-referral Rectal Artesunate Treatment by Community-Based Treatment Providers in Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania, and Uganda (Study 18): A Cluster-Randomized Trial

scientific article

Predictors of skilled attendance at delivery among antenatal clinic attendants in Ghana: A cross-sectional study of population data

scholarly article

Profile: The Dodowa HDSS

scientific article published on December 2013

Provider adherence to first antenatal care guidelines and risk of pregnancy complications in public sector facilities: A Ghanaian cohort study

scientific article

Providing practical estimates of malaria burden for health planners in resource-poor countries.

scientific article published on August 2004

Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Public social policy development and implementation: a case study of the Ghana National Health Insurance scheme

scientific article published on 02 February 2008

Quantifying the validity of routine neonatal healthcare data in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana

scientific article

Republished research: Implementation research: What it is and how to do it

research work

Republished research: Implementation research: what it is and how to do it: implementation research is a growing but not well understood field of health research that can contribute to more effective public health and clinical policies and programme

scientific article published in April 2014

Rethinking health systems in the context of urbanisation: challenges from four rapidly urbanising low-income and middle-income countries

scientific article published in 2019

Spanning maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and health systems research boundaries: Conducive and limiting health systems factors to improving MNCH outcomes in West Africa

scholarly article

Strategic leadership capacity building for Sub-Saharan African health systems and public health governance: A multi-country assessment of essential competencies and optimal design for a Pan African DrPH

scientific article published on 8 July 2018

Strategies to improve adherence to recommended chloroquine treatment regimes: a quasi-experiment in the context of integrated primary health care delivery in Ghana

scientific article published in December 2002

Strengthening health system leadership for better governance: what does it take?

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Strengthening post-graduate educational capacity for health policy and systems research and analysis: The strategy of the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 12 April 2016

Sustainability of recurrent expenditure on public social welfare programmes: Expenditure analysis of the free maternal care programme of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

Systematic review of prediction models for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Technical analysis, contestation and politics in policy agenda setting and implementation: the rise and fall of primary care maternal services from Ghana's capitation policy

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Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana: impacts and challenges of health policies and programs

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

The "universal" in UHC and Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: Policy and implementation challenges and dilemmas of a lower middle income country

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The G20 and development assistance for health: historical trends and crucial questions to inform a new era

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

The diagnosis and management of fever at household level in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana.

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The effect of a clinical decision-making mHealth support system on maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Ghana: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

The effect of an mHealth clinical decision-making support system on neonatal mortality in a low resource setting: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

The effect of anmHealth clinical decision-making support systemon neonatal mortality in a low resource setting: A cluster-randomized controlled trial

research work

The path dependence of district manager decision-space in Ghana

scientific article published on 28 August 2015

The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa

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The role of policy actors and contextual factors in policy agenda setting and formulation: maternal fee exemption policies in Ghana over four and a half decades

scientific article published on 30 May 2015

The willingness to participate in biomedical research involving human beings in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Towards an explanatory framework for national level maternal health policy agenda item evolution in Ghana: an embedded case study

scholarly article

Understanding the state of health policy and systems research in West Africa and capacity strengthening needs: scoping of peer-reviewed publications trends and patterns 1990-2015.

scientific article

Using mHealth to support clinical decision-making to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes in Ghana: Insights of frontline health worker information needs (Preprint)

scholarly article published 21 November 2018

Using mobile health to support clinical decision-making to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes in Ghana: Insights of frontline health worker information needs

research work

What Governs District Manager Decision Making? A Case Study of Complex Leadership in Dangme West District, Ghana

scientific article published on 01 February 2015

When 'solutions of yesterday become problems of today': Crisis-ridden decision making in a complex adaptive system (CAS) - The Additional Duty Hours Allowance in Ghana

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Willing but unable? Extending theory to investigate community capacity to participate in Ghana’s community-based health planning and service implementation

research work

Your health our concern, our health whose concern?': Perceptions of injustice in organizational relationships and processes and frontline health worker motivation in Ghana

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“Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight”: Comment on “constraints to applying systems thinking concepts in health systems: A regional perspective from surveying stakeholders in eastern mediterranean countries”

scientific article published on 15 February 2015

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