Assessing the impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket healthcare payments prior to the uptake of the national health insurance scheme in Ghana

• Main Authors: James Akazili (Author), John Ele-Ojo Ataguba (Author), Edmund Wedam Kanmiki (Author), John Gyapong (Author), Osman Sankoh (Author), Abraham Oduro (Author), Di McIntyre (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background There is a global concern regarding how households could be protected from relatively large healthcare payments which are a major limitation to accessing healthcare. Such payments also endanger the welfare of households with the potential of moving households into extreme impover...