April 2, 2018
Africa
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Ghana's community-based primary health care: Why women and children are ‘disadvantaged’ by its implementation
Policy analysis on why women and children in low- and middle- income settings are still disadvantaged by access to appropiate care despite Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes implementation is limited. Drawing on the street- level bureaucracy theory, this article explored how and why frontline providers (FLP) actions on their own and in interaction with health system factors shape Ghana´s community-based PHC implementation to the disadvantage of women and children accessing and using health services.
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- Social Science & Medicine