Regina Titi-Ofei

Datos Biográficos

ID8519977
NOMBRERegina Titi-Ofei
NOMBRESRegina
APELLIDOTiti-Ofei
FIRMATITI-OFEI R
AFILIACIONESWorld Health Organization Regional Office for Africa
ORCID0000-0002-8753-6021
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS8
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR8
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • The political economy of national health insurance schemes

    Open AccessDoris Osei Afriyie, Regina Titi-Ofei et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2025

    Governments in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly considering the introduction of national health insurance scheme (NHIS) as a strategy to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) targets. The literature has widely documented the technical challenges associated with implementing UHC policies in LMICs but much less is known about the political process necessary to pass UHC legislation. In this article, we document the politica…

  • Projected health workforce requirements and shortage for addressing the disease burden in the WHO Africa Region, 2022–2030

    Open AccessJames Avoka Asamani, Kouadjo San Boris Bediakon et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    INTRODUCTION: An adequate health workforce (HWF) is essential to achieving the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), including universal health coverage. However, weak HWF planning and constrained fiscal space for health, among other factors in the WHO Africa Region, has consistently resulted in underinvestment in HWF development, shortages of the HWF at the frontlines of service delivery and unemployment of qualified and trained he…

  • Making districts functional for universal health coverage attainment

    Open AccessHumphrey Karamagi, Humphrey Cyprian Karamagi et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Ensuring the sub national level in the health system can function effectively is central to attainment of health results in countries. However, the current health agenda has not prioritized how districts can deploy their existing resources effectively, to maximize the efficiency equity and effectiveness in their use. Ghana initiated a self-assessment process to understand the functionality of districts to deliver on health results. The assessment…

  • Assessing capacities and resilience of health services during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessBriana Rivas-Morello, Dirk Horemans et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    This article is part of the Research Topic: 'Health Systems Recovery in the Context of COVID-19 and Protracted Conflict.' Problem: Many countries lacked rapid and nimble data systems to track health service capacities to respond to COVID-19. They struggled to assess and monitor rapidly evolving service disruptions, health workforce capacities, health products availability, community needs and perspectives, and mitigation responses to maintain ess…

  • Attracting private sector inflows to close the financing gap for universal health coverage

    Open AccessBrendan Kwesiga, Regina Titi-Ofei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2023

    A financial gap exists between the resources available for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and current needs [1]. Even the available resources have often been misused [2], exacerbating existing inequities by widening the access gap. To address this challenge, calls have been issued to leverage the private sector to close both the financing and access gaps. [...]

  • Towards universal health coverage in the WHO African Region

    Open AccessHumphrey Karamagi, Prosper Tumusiime et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    The move towards universal health coverage is premised on having well-functioning health systems, which can assure provision of the essential health and related services people need. Efforts to define ways to assess functionality of health systems have however varied, with many not translating into concrete policy action and influence on system development. We present an approach to provide countries with information on the functionality of their…

  • Monitoring Quality of Care in the WHO Africa Region-A study design for measurement and tracking, towards UHC attainment

    Open AccessRegina Titi-Ofei, Doris Osei Afriyie et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    This paper reports on the design of a study to generate a quality of care index for countries in the World Health Organization Africa Region.Quality of care, for all people at all times, remains pivotal to the advancement of the 2030 agenda and the attainment of Universal Health Coverage. We present a study protocol for deriving a quality of care index, hinged on indicators and data elements currently monitored through routine information systems…

  • The potential effects of widespread community transmission of Sars-CoV-2 infection in the World Health Organization African Region

    Open AccessJoseph Waogodo Cabore, Joseph Cabore Waogodo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been unprecedented in its speed and effects. Interruption of its transmission to prevent widespread community transmission is critical because its effects go beyond the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths and affect the health system capacity to provide other essential services. Highlighting the implications of such a situation, the predictions presented here are deriv…