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Targeting the poor in the Sissala East District for the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) |
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Richard Basadi, Zacchi Sabogu and Martin Defiin, Regional Health Administration, Wa, Upper West Region, Ghana, 2008
Exerpts from the report
...Following from the widespread poverty in the district, it has become paramount for policy makers to consider reviewing the 0.5% ceiling of the population who are allowed to be enrolled as indigents into the [health insurance] scheme.
...After many years of formulating and implementing development plans and interventions which are meant to improve the quality of life of the broad- mass of the people, poverty still remains endemic and pervasive in many communities in Ghana.
...Apart from the Wa municipality, all the other four old administrative districts of the Upper West Region of which the Sissala East District is one are among the first ten top poorest districts in Ghana (World Bank, 2003)
...The study identified key attributes such as unemployment, no financial subsistence, dwelling in unsafe structures among others as factors that were noticeable in people that are very poor.
...The percentage of better off households is very low in the district and the overall perception of poverty is found to be high.
...The team visited thirty communities and assembled a poverty register from these communities. The poverty register have been compiled jointly with the communities involved more especially with the household heads interviewed.
The study was funded by Danida
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