Evelyn Ansah
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1730467 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Evelyn Ansah |
| PRENOMES | Evelyn |
| SOBRENOME | Ansah |
| ASSINATURA | ANSAH E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghana Health Service |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0401-8606 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The role of community engagement toward ensuring healthy lives
Introduction: Community engagement is one of the important requirements for strengthening health delivery in communities in a bid to achieve sustainable development goal 3, target 3.3 (SDG 3.3). The World Health Organization has strongly encouraged the use the five levels of community engagement, which are informing, consulting, planning, collaborating, and empowering communities in order to build resilience and to enable them contribute to the f…
Rethinking integrated service delivery for malaria
Despite worldwide efforts and much progress toward malaria control, declines in malaria morbidity and mortality have hit a plateau. While many nations achieved significant malaria suppression or even elimination, success has been uneven, and other nations have made little headway—or even lost ground in this battle. These alarming trends threaten to derail the attainment of global targets for malaria control. Among the challenges impeding success …
Thank You to Reviewers 2019
Impact of a bottom-up community engagement intervention on maternal and child health services utilization in Ghana
Community engagement in health has the potential of improving utilization of maternal and child health services. There is the need for multi-stakeholder dialogues on complementing existing quality improvement interventions with community engagement strategies
Determinants of attending antenatal care at least four times in rural Ghana
BACKGROUND: Improving maternal health is a global challenge. In Ghana, maternal morbidity and mortality rates remain high, particularly in rural areas. Antenatal care (ANC) attendance is known to improve maternal health. However, few studies have updated current knowledge regarding determinants of ANC attendance. OBJECTIVE: This study examined factors associated with ANC attendance in predominantly rural Ghana. METHODS: We conducted a cross-secti…
Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Following the adoption of the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) in Ghana to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, efforts were made towards its attainment. However, impacts and challenges of implemented intervention programs have not been examined to inform implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 (SDG 3.2) that seeks to end preventable deaths of newborns and children aged under-five. Thus, thi…
The path dependence of district manager decision-space in Ghana
The district health system in Ghana today is characterized by high resource-uncertainty and narrow decision-space. This article builds a theory-driven historical case study to describe the influence of path-dependent administrative, fiscal and political decentralization processes on development of the district health system and district manager decision-space. Methods included a non-exhaustive literature review of democratic governance in Ghana, …
The indirect effects of subsidised healthcare in rural Ghana
Can we trust measures of healthcare utilization from household surveys
The findings raise methodological concerns about measures of healthcare utilization from household surveys, particularly in the evaluation of health financing interventions
Who benefits from free healthcare? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
Strategies to improve adherence to recommended chloroquine treatment regimes
Who benefits from free healthcare? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
The path dependence of district manager decision-space in Ghana
The district health system in Ghana today is characterized by high resource-uncertainty and narrow decision-space. This article builds a theory-driven historical case study to describe the influence of path-dependent administrative, fiscal and political decentralization processes on development of the district health system and district manager decision-space. Methods included a non-exhaustive literature review of democratic governance in Ghana, …
Strategies to improve adherence to recommended chloroquine treatment regimes
Strategies to improve adherence to recommended chloroquine treatment regimes
Can we trust measures of healthcare utilization from household surveys
The findings raise methodological concerns about measures of healthcare utilization from household surveys, particularly in the evaluation of health financing interventions
Who benefits from free healthcare? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana
The indirect effects of subsidised healthcare in rural Ghana
Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Following the adoption of the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) in Ghana to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, efforts were made towards its attainment. However, impacts and challenges of implemented intervention programs have not been examined to inform implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 (SDG 3.2) that seeks to end preventable deaths of newborns and children aged under-five. Thus, thi…
The path dependence of district manager decision-space in Ghana
The district health system in Ghana today is characterized by high resource-uncertainty and narrow decision-space. This article builds a theory-driven historical case study to describe the influence of path-dependent administrative, fiscal and political decentralization processes on development of the district health system and district manager decision-space. Methods included a non-exhaustive literature review of democratic governance in Ghana, …
Determinants of attending antenatal care at least four times in rural Ghana
BACKGROUND: Improving maternal health is a global challenge. In Ghana, maternal morbidity and mortality rates remain high, particularly in rural areas. Antenatal care (ANC) attendance is known to improve maternal health. However, few studies have updated current knowledge regarding determinants of ANC attendance. OBJECTIVE: This study examined factors associated with ANC attendance in predominantly rural Ghana. METHODS: We conducted a cross-secti…
Impact of a bottom-up community engagement intervention on maternal and child health services utilization in Ghana
Community engagement in health has the potential of improving utilization of maternal and child health services. There is the need for multi-stakeholder dialogues on complementing existing quality improvement interventions with community engagement strategies
Thank You to Reviewers 2019
Rethinking integrated service delivery for malaria
Despite worldwide efforts and much progress toward malaria control, declines in malaria morbidity and mortality have hit a plateau. While many nations achieved significant malaria suppression or even elimination, success has been uneven, and other nations have made little headway—or even lost ground in this battle. These alarming trends threaten to derail the attainment of global targets for malaria control. Among the challenges impeding success …
The role of community engagement toward ensuring healthy lives
Introduction: Community engagement is one of the important requirements for strengthening health delivery in communities in a bid to achieve sustainable development goal 3, target 3.3 (SDG 3.3). The World Health Organization has strongly encouraged the use the five levels of community engagement, which are informing, consulting, planning, collaborating, and empowering communities in order to build resilience and to enable them contribute to the f…
Global Maternal and Child Health (9 obras) · Medicine (9 obras) · Environmental health (6 obras) · Nursing (6 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Health care (5 obras) · Healthcare Systems and Reforms (4 obras) · Intervention (counseling (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras)