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Who uses outpatient healthcare services under Ghana’s health protection scheme and why?

BACKGROUND: The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was launched in Ghana in 2003 with the main objective of increasing utilisation to healthcare by making healthcare more affordable. Previous studies on the NHIS have repeatedly highlighted that cost of premiums is one of the major barriers for...

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Autores principales:	Fenny, Ama P., Asante, Felix A., Arhinful, Daniel K., Kusi, Anthony, Parmar, Divya, Williams, Gemma
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2016
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862147/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27164825 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1429-z

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