6519 Results Found

Health Sector ICT Policy and Strategy (Final)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

The Health Sector ICT Policy and Strategy charts a roadmap for the exploitation, development, and deployment of ICT to accelerate service delivery processes. It is guided by the Ghana ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD) Policy.

Ghana 2005 Health

Healthcare Quality Assurance Manual

Ghana, Ghana Health Service

This manual generally addresses health workers, especially those delivering services at the sub-district level. It hopes to provide them with the essential knowledge and skills to plan and implement quality assurance in their health facilities.

Ghana 2004 Health

Human Resource Policies and Strategies for the Health Sector (2007-2011)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

This policy outlines the basis for decision making regarding planning, training, recruitment, deployment and management. It provides the framework for negotiations on adequate resource allocation for effective human resources in health service delivery in Ghana. It addresses the existing gaps and the current challenges facing the development of human resources in the health sector.

Ghana 2007 Health

National Community-Based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Health

The aim of this policy is to attain the goal of reaching every community with a basic package of essential health services. This effort is geared towards attaining Universal Health Coverage and bridging the access inequity gap by 2030 as central to government’s push for universal health coverage for Ghanaians.

Ghana 2016 Health

Ghana National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (2017-2021)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

This plan seeks to give interpretation to the policy directives recommended in the first edition of the National Policy on Antimicrobial Use and Resistance. It pushes to ensure a convergence of efforts and investments in the fight against the global threat of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

Ghana 2017 Health

National Health Insurance Policy Framework for Ghana (Revised Version)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

This framework advocates for the concept of cross-subsidization, equity, solidarity, and re-engineering of the health insurance system in favour of the poor and underprivileged in society. The framework is based on legislative updates to the development process of health insurance. It sets out to build on the efforts and achievements of the old edition.

Ghana 2004 Health

National Health Policy (Creating Wealth Through Health)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

The policy views health in its broadest sense as a multi-sectoral programme. It focuses on the physical, social, economic, and spiritual dimensions which can bring total health to individuals, their families and communities.

Ghana 2007 Health

Ghana National Healthcare Quality Strategy (2017-2021)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

This strategy has an overall vision to create a health system that places clients at the centre of health care, and ensures continuously improved measurable health outcomes. It contains the strategy, coordination and accountability framework. It recognises the need for an integrated strategy aimed at improving general patient safety and healthcare quality.

Ghana 2016 Health

Occupational Health and Safety Policy and Guidelines for the Health Sector

Ghana, Ghana Health Service

This policy represents guidelines on occupational health and safety for health workers. It outlines evidence-based measures for adoption by health service managers and staff of institutions in the health sector, both within the public and private sub-sectors.

Ghana 2010 Health

Private Health Sector Development Policy

Ghana, Ministry of Health

This policy strives to address the improvement of the investment climate for private health sector growth. It recognises the current limitations facing the developmental process of the private sector. It seeks to build the capacity of private healthcare providers among other objectives.

Ghana 2013 Health

Referral Policy and Guidelines

Ghana, Ministry of Health

These guidelines address the lack of harmonization of the referral system and standard procedures that define roles and responsibilities of the referring and receiving health facilities. It has an overarching goal to ensure continuous and seamless delivery of healthcare to the patient.

Ghana 2012 Health

Ghana Health Service (GHS) Standard Hospitals (Standard Modular Design Concept)

Ghana, Ghana Health Service

This represents the concept of GHS Standard Hospital based on a modular template and is suitable for easy expansion. It provides information on departments, general building arrangements, and cost estimates. The standard was developed to ultimately reduce maintenance and other operational and variable costs.

Ghana 2018 Health

Policy Guidelines on Traditional Medicine Development

Ghana, Ministry of Health

The Government of Ghana has long recognised the importance of traditional medicine, as evidenced by various efforts at establishing traditional medical centres. The objective of this policy is to provide a general direction and framework within which government’s short- to long term plans on traditional medicine would be based.

Ghana 2005 Health

Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) of Malaria in Pregnancy (Training Manual for Health Providers)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

The control of mortality rates arising from malaria is a global effort. The manual highlights the various challenges faced in combating the malaria scourge among pregnant women in Ghana. The general objective of the strategy is to contribute to the reduction of malaria related maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality through the usage of IPT.

Ghana 2005 Health

Regenerative Health (Policy Briefing Paper 002)

Ghana, Ministry of Health

This strategy aims to shift the emphasis on health from cure to prevention. It prioritises the implementation of healthy lifestyles, dietary practices, and mother-and-child care practices.

Ghana 2007 Health