background in early 2012, national health insurance scheme (nhis) members in ashanti region were allowed to choose their own primary healthcare providers. this paper investigates the factors that enrolees in the ashanti region considered in choosing preferred primary healthcare providers (ppps) and direction of association of such factors with the choice of ppp.   methods using a cross-sectiona...

Background Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), established by an Act of Parliament (Act 650), in 2003 and since replaced by Act 852 of 2012 remains, in African terms, unprecedented in terms of growth and coverage. As a result, the scheme has received praise for its associated legal reforms, clinical audit mechanisms and for serving as a hub for knowledge sharing and learning within...

1Department of Environmental Biology and Health, CSIR Water Research Institute, Accra, Ghana 2Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Energy and Natural Resources Sunyani, Ghana 3Department of Agriculture, Methodist University, Wenchi Campus, Brong Ahafo, Ghana 4Department of Environmental Resources, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, Netherlands 5UNESCO Regional Sc...

a Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA b Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA c Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon – Accra, Ghana d Department of Electrical Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda e Design Science Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA f Department of...

1 Department of Agricultural Engineering, School of Agriculture, University of Cape Coast, Ghana 2 Department of Hotel, Catering and Institutional Management, Kumasi Polytechnic, Kumasi, Ghana 3 Department of Hospitality, School of Applied Science and Technology, Koforidua Polytechnic, Koforidua, Ghana 4 School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang 21...

Ghana was one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to gain Internet access. By 1996, three Internet service providers (ISPs) were competing. During the Internet boom years, 1998-2000, the ISP and Internet Café industries in Ghana grew rapidly. In 2004, policy-makers are struggling with the question of how to fund telecommunications deployment in rural Ghana. The question is urgent becau...

1 Health Systems Program, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 2 Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana and University of Ghana School of Public Health, Legon, Ghana, 3 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 5...

The production and use of chemicals is an important source of economic welfare in Ghana. However, many chemicals also enter the environment and chemical pollution remains a major environmental issue in Ghana. In Ghana, mining and agriculture remain the major contributors to chemical pollution. For mining; mercury, cyanide and arsenic are normally the reported cases of contamination. Studies hav...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of diabetes has been shown to be socially patterned but the direction of the association in low-income countries and among migrant populations in Europe has varied in the literature. This study examined the association between socioeconomic position (SEP) and diabetes in Ghanaians in Europe and in Ghana. METHODS Data were derived from the multicentre Research on Obes...