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Financing Health Care in Ghana

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Financing Health Care in Ghana

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................11. Financing health system...........................................................................................................12. Financial protection provided by health system to people suffering from financialconsequences of paying for health services.................................................................................23. Use of available resources more efficiently.............................................................................3CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONHealth finance in Ghana is concerned with National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).Ghana is a set of small number of various African countries (Seddoh and Sataru, 2018) . It has itssaperate rules, legislations and significant relating to the revenues and program relating to healthinsurance within the country. The present study shows an overview of the way in which thehealth system of Ghana is being financed. Further, it provides information regarding how theoverall health system can be protected from numerous consequences of payment for health careservices. At the end, the assignment includes a discussion regarding availability of a range ofresources that are needed to be used in an efficient manner.MAIN BODY1. Financing health systemThe profit and non- profit organization need finance to run the business via different sources like public founding, donation, loan, borrowing etc. Ghana is one of the small country of Africa. The health system of Ghana need finance to provide services to the patient like treatment of disease, medicines, equipment etc. All the activities need finance to purchase the resources and provides services to the country population. The various organization provide finance to the health system like finance ministry, National health services system and NHIS to protect the population from the various disease and provide the facilities to improving the function of health system. Ghana health care require finance in the organization to purchase the medicine, equipment, machinery etc. for providing health care services.Ministry of finance provide the free health care services to the population of Ghana. NHIS provide finance to the Ghana health service system to run the organization effectively and efficiently and provide the financial resources. A proper financed organisation help in getting thecustomer also and treat them with the sufficient resources. It also helps in sustainability of the organization (Brugiavini and Pace, 2016). Sustainability of the Ghana health care system is depended upon its services and product which can be fulfilled by the proper financing.Private spending in Ghana is decreasing due to increase in the spending of government inhealth care project by NHIS. The expanding health coverage insurance results to decreasing the private spending (Browne and et.al., 2016). The private spending in Ghana contributed 2.3% in GDP. The government finance help the organization in provide the health care services like free check-ups, medicines, equipment, machinery, beds etc. 1
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