Faith-Inspired Health Care Provision in Ghana : Market Share, Reach to the Poor, and Performance

doi:10.1080/15570274.2013.876735

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Faith-Inspired Health Care Provision in Ghana : Market Share, Reach to the Poor, and Performance

dc.contributor.author	Olivier, Jill
dc.contributor.author	Shojo, Mari
dc.contributor.author	Wodon, Quentin
dc.date.accessioned	2014-04-28T16:07:24Z
dc.date.available	2014-04-28T16:07:24Z
dc.date.issued	2014-03-12
dc.description.abstract	It is commonly accepted that faith-inspired institutions (FIIs) provide a substantial share of health services in sub-Saharan Africa. To substantiate this perception, one would ideally like to have a comprehensive assessment of the scope and scale of all health-related services provided not only by government facilities and faith-inspired providers, but also by private-for-profit providers and other non-religious non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community-based organizations and initiatives—including categorization according to primary areas of response such as HIV/AIDs. Such comprehensive overviews are unfortunately not currently available. It is nevertheless possible to take one (partial) step towards such comprehensive assessments in specific countries by comparing and interpreting the market share estimates for the health care services provided by various types of providers obtained with both facilities and household survey data, and to measure the facilities’ “reach to the poor” (understood here as a comparative market share assessment of various types of providers among segments of the population according to their level of well-being, and especially among the poor). In addition, qualitative work can help reveal the reasons why patients tend to choose one type of provider versus another. The objective of this article is to do precisely this in the case of Ghana.	en
dc.identifier.citation	The Review of Faith & International Affairs
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/18089
dc.identifier.issn	1557-0274
dc.identifier.other	10.1080/15570274.2013.876735
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/18089
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	health care
dc.subject	health policy
dc.subject	faith-inspired institutions
dc.subject	access of the poor
dc.subject	health facilities
dc.subject	health services
dc.subject	market segmentation
dc.subject	living standards survey
dc.subject	household surveys
dc.title	Faith-Inspired Health Care Provision in Ghana : Market Share, Reach to the Poor, and Performance	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2014-04-01
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T10:55:56.712122Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.globalpractice	Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi	10.1080/15570274.2013.876735
okr.journal.nbpages	84-96
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	Africa
okr.region.country	Ghana
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15570274.2013.876735
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Economics & Finance
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Policy and Management
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health Service Management and Delivery
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Health and Poverty
okr.volume	12(1)
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