Publications

Strengthen Primary Health Care to Delivery Quality Malaria Services 

  Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) In September 2015, 193 member countries of the United Nations (UN) met at the General Assembly to officially adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Along with a set of bold new Global Goals, the SDGs as they are known ushered in hope for a better world. It also promised […]

[one_full last=”yes” spacing=”yes” center_content=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” hover_type=”none” link=”” border_position=”all” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”” animation_speed=”0.1″ animation_offset=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_text]Tema General Hospital and Maternal Health Mothers come to Tema expecting to have a healthy pregnancy from start to end. This mindset quickly changes once they arrive. Pre-delivery, mothers must wait […]

DOWNLOAD PDF Walking the talk…………we need a new politics of social and economic equity!!! Ten years ago, African Heads of State came together to establish the African Union (AU), a body to promote solidarity and coordinate efforts for development among its 54 member nations. Encouraging social, political and economic integration across the continent, the AU […]

Family planning is a development tool that is essential for a country’s socio-economic progress and prosperity. Ghana’s development policy has long recognised the critical need for Family Planning, but the government has always depended on international funding agencies to provide most of the funding for Family Planning in Ghana. Family planning is the planning of […]

Improved Access to Reproductive Health Services, crucial to attainment of MDG 4 & 5 According to the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD,1994), Reproductive Health is ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, in all matters relating to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Reproductive health therefore implies that people […]

THE POOR ATTITUDE OF SOME HEALTH PROFESSIONALS IN GHANA – HOW LONG MUST THIS GO ON? A health care professional is a person who delivers proper health care in a systematic way professionally to any individual in need of health care services. They include physicians, dentists, physician assistants, nurses, midwives, and support staff regulated and/or […]

Good health is indispensable to human welfare and to sustained economic and social development. The best way to finance health care has long been a confusing area for policy-makers resulting in different policy options being debated for decades. Recently, government announced its decision to implement a one-time premium health insurance policy as a means of […]