The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative for scaling up service delivery innovation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11491281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank K Nyonator, Frank Nyonator (Ghana Health Service, corresponding author), John Koku Awoonor‐Williams (0000-0002-1094-8212), J Koku Awoonor-Williams, Jonathan F Phillips (0000-0002-6720-7204), James F Phillips, Tanya Jones (0000-0002-6108-3458), Tanya C Jones, Robert A Miller (0000-0002-8158-0291) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-34 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Policy and Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-1080 • E-ISSN: 1460-2237 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/heapol/czi003 |
| PMID | 15689427 |
| OpenAlex | W2074019375 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 65 |
| References cited | 10 |
Research projects demonstrating ways to improve health services often fail to have an impact on what national health programmes actually do. An approach to evidence-based policy development has been launched in Ghana which bridges the gap between research and programme implementation. After nearly two decades of national debate and investigation into appropriate strategies for service delivery at the periphery, the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative has employed strategies tested in the successful Navrongo experiment to guide national health reforms that mobilize volunteerism, resources and cultural institutions for supporting community-based primary health care. Over a 2-year period, 104 out of the 110 districts in Ghana started CHPS. This paper reviews the development of the CHPS initiative, describes the processes of implementation and relates the initiative to the principles of scaling up organizational change which it embraces. Evidence from the national monitoring and evaluation programme provides insights into CHPS' success and identifies constraints on future progress.
Business · Community health · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Implementation research · Monitoring and evaluation · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Service (business) · Service delivery framework · Global Maternal and Child Health · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Healthcare Systems and Reforms · Marketing · Medicine · Nursing
Exploring stakeholder support for student-run free clinics to address gaps in non-communicable disease care in Ghana
Applying an equity lens to interventions
Cardiovascular disease prevention in Ghana
Adapting a nurse-led primary care initiative to cardiovascular disease control in Ghana
Examining the unresolved conundrum of Traditional Birth Attendants’ involvement in maternal and child health care delivery in Ghana
Effects of a community-level intervention on maternal health care utilization in a resource-poor setting of Northern Ghana
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Quality of Antenatal Care Services in the Birim North District of Ghana
Effects of community health volunteers on infectious diseases of children under five in Volta Region, Ghana
Trends of inequalities in childhood immunization coverage among children aged 12-23 months in Kenya, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire
Chronic non-communicable diseases and the challenge of universal health coverage
Illness meanings and experiences for pre-ulcer and ulcer conditions of Buruli ulcer in the Ga-West and Ga-South Municipalities of Ghana
Using the community-based health planning and services program to promote skilled delivery in rural Ghana
Male involvement in maternal healthcare through Community- based Health Planning and Services
Role and capacity needs of community based surveillance volunteers in the integrated management of skin neglected tropical diseases (skin NTDs)
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Understanding the Social Context of the ASGM Sector in Ghana
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Enablers and barriers of community initiated health emergency transport systems in the Upper West Region of Ghana
Capacity issues in primary health care implementation
Unlocking Pathways to Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality
Factors associated with voluntary testing for HBV in the Upper West Region of Ghana
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Does the provision of community health services offset the effects of poverty and low maternal educational attainment on childhood mortality? An analysis of the equity effect of the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana
The effect of power outages on in-facility mortality in healthcare facilities
Factors facilitating and constraining the scaling up of an evidence-based strategy of community-based primary care
Health inequities
Accrediting private providers with National Health Insurance to better serve low-income populations in Kenya and Ghana
Socioeconomic inequalities in maternal health care utilization in Ghana
Global implementation research capacity building to address cardiovascular disease
Leadership and governance for integrating mental healthcare at the primary healthcare (PHC) level
Women’s autonomy, neonatal, infant and under-five mortality in the Upper East Region of Ghana
Time trends in facility-based and private-sector childbirth care
Comprehensive review of the evidence regarding the effectiveness of community–based primary health care in improving maternal, neonatal and child health
Does the national health insurance scheme in Ghana reduce household cost of treating malaria in the Kassena-Nankana districts
Clustering of under-five mortality in the Navrongo HDSS in the Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana
Determinants of attending antenatal care at least four times in rural Ghana
‘We do not do any activity until there is an outbreak’
A conceptualisation of scale-up and sustainability of social innovations in global health
Community perceptions of universal health coverage in eight districts of the Northern and Volta regions of Ghana
Trial-based economic evaluation of the system-integrated activation of community health volunteers in rural Ghana
The pitfalls of scaling up evidence-based interventions in health
Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana
Stakeholders’ perspectives about the impact of training and sensitization of traditional and spiritual healers on mental health and illness
Do efficiency gains really translate into more budget for health? An assessment framework and country applications
Supervision of community health nurses in Ghana
Supporting the utilization of community-based primary health care implementation research in Ghana
Using quality improvement methods to test and scale up a new national policy on early post-natal care in Ghana
Addressing the continuum of maternal and newborn care in Ghana
Scaling up in international health
Multi-actor collaborations in primary health care implementation
Holding health providers in developing countries accountable to consumers
Strengthening decentralized primary healthcare planning in Nigeria using a quality improvement model
The complex association of health insurance and maternal health services in the context of a premium exemption for pregnant women
A Lasting Legacy? Sustaining Innovation in a Social Work Context
The Long‐Term Fertility Impact of the Navrongo Project in Northern Ghana
We want financial accountability
Advancing methods for health priority setting practice through the contribution of systems theory
Spatio-temporal disparities in maternal health service utilization in Rwanda
Fostering reflective trust between mothers and community health nurses to improve the effectiveness of health and nutrition efforts
Ghana's community-based primary health care
The effects of community-based distribution of family planning services on contraceptive use
Capacity Building as Instrument and Empowerment
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Facilitating Large‐scale Transitions to Quality of Care
The Danfa Family Planning Program in Rural Ghana
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The Impact of the Navrongo Project on Contraceptive Knowledge and Use, Reproductive Preferences, and Fertility
The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project
Factors influencing the success of applied research
Community Organization and Rural Development
Policy Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Innovation
Translating research findings into health policy
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| Citations per year | 4,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |