Using Health Systems and Policy Research to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in Ghana

Health system implementation research, combined with knowledge management processes, directly contributed to Community-based Health Planning and Services geographic coverage expansion. Research was less deliberately employed for guiding financial access expansion through the National Health Insurance Scheme.

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