{"id":987514908,"date":"2021-11-25T15:19:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/documents\/ghana-national-health-insurance-scheme-nhis-improving-financial-sustainability-based-on-expenditure-review\/"},"modified":"2021-11-25T15:19:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:19:45","slug":"ghana-national-health-insurance-scheme-nhis-improving-financial-sustainability-based-on-expenditure-review","status":"publish","type":"documents","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/documents\/ghana-national-health-insurance-scheme-nhis-improving-financial-sustainability-based-on-expenditure-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana national health \u00a0insurance scheme (NHIS): improving financial sustainability based on expenditure review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the establishment of Ghana\u2019s NHIS in 2003, the country has made substantial progress towards its goal of universal health care. As of 2014, the NHIS covered 10.5 million people which is 40% of Ghana\u2019s population. The total number of inpatient and outpatient visits to health facilities rose from just under 0.5 per capita in 2005 to almost 3 per capita in 2014.\u00a0Despite the progress made in coverage, ensuring the NHIS\u2019s financial sustainability continues to pose a serious challenge and remains authorities\u2019 priority. \u00a0The goal of this study therefore,\u00a0\u00a0was \u00a0to inform policy makers on improving financial sustainability of the NHIS based on quantitative evidence from claim expenditure patterns. \u00a0Findings from the study showed that three principal factors determine the amount \u00a0and affected the efficiency of claims expenditures in Ghana and these include; \u00a0coverage expansion, behavior of service providers and NHIS members, and the internal management of the national health insurance authority.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0The full document can be accessed using the link below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the establishment of Ghana\u2019s NHIS in 2003, the country has made substantial progress towards its goal of universal health care. As of 2014, the NHIS covered 10.5 million people which is 40% of Ghana\u2019s population. The total number of inpatient and outpatient visits to health facilities rose from just under 0.5 per capita in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133],"document_type":[2337],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documents"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987514908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documents\/987514908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987514908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987514908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987514908"},{"taxonomy":"document_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document_type?post=987514908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}