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The Double Burden of Disease and the Challenge of Health Access: Evidence from Access, Bottlenecks, Cost and Equity facility survey in Ghana

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dc.contributor.author Kushitor, Mawuli K.
dc.contributor.author Boatemaa, Sandra
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-16T14:07:25Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-16T14:07:25Z
dc.date.issued 2018-03-23
dc.identifier.citation Kushitor MK, Boatemaa S (2018) The double burden of disease and the challenge of health access: Evidence from Access, Bottlenecks, Cost and Equity facility survey in Ghana. PLoS ONE 13(3): e0194677. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0194677 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0194677
dc.identifier.uri http://41.204.63.118:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/57
dc.description Research Article en_US
dc.description.abstract Despite the double burden of infectious and chronic non-communicable diseases in Africa, health care expenditure disproportionately favours infectious diseases. In this paper, we examine quantitatively the extent of this disproportionate access to diagnoses and treatment of diabetes, hypertension and malaria in Ghana. A total of 220 health facilities was surveyed across the country in 2011. Findings indicate that diagnoses and treatment of infectious diseases were more accessible than NCDs. In terms of treatment, 78% and 87% of health facilities had two of the recommended malaria drugs while less than 35% had essential diabetes and hypertension drugs. There is a significant unmet need for diagnoses and treatment of NCDs in Ghana. These inequities have implications for high morbidity and mortality from NCDs. We recommend the use of task shifting as a model to increase the delivery of NCD services. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship SB was funded by the Hewlett Foundation, through the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) and MKK was funded by the RIPS Endowment Fund. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Plos One en_US
dc.subject Disease en_US
dc.subject Burden en_US
dc.subject Bottlenecks en_US
dc.subject Cost and Equity en_US
dc.title The Double Burden of Disease and the Challenge of Health Access: Evidence from Access, Bottlenecks, Cost and Equity facility survey in Ghana en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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