In 1978, Ghana was a participant in the Alma-Ata meeting on primary health care and was an early adopter of its ideals. However, like most developing countries it has made efforts to strengthen public health as a way of ensuring the conditions in which its people can be healthy and productive. The evolution of the public health in the country involved core assessments, policy development, and the implementation of interventions to address its policy objectives. The process of strengthening public health policy and interventions other the past four and more decades, has hinged on evidence generated through research at the local and international level. The documentation of interventions to address contemporary health issues is a critical plank for the health practice to policy continuum; it catalyzes the country response of the myriads of public health issues confronting it. Many lessons have accrued for the country's communities to enhance the promotion, restoration, and maintenance of health even as the disease burden evolves from one of infectious and communicable diseases and maternal and child health, to an increasingly sophisticated triple burden incorporating non-communicable diseases.
Services, programs and interventions have been implemented to promote, restore and maintain health, successfully in some aspects and not so positively in others. As the country reaches the midway mark in its efforts towards the SDG targets in 2030, we expect to showcase selected interventions or approaches with the primary intent to promote, restore, and maintain health. This Research topic aims to gather a collection of articles around public health policy, primary health care, health system strengthening including health care financing, as well as on non-communicable diseases challenge. We invite papers related to Ghana's health system and papers describing the overall African context, including experiences of similarly placed countries in the areas covered by this topic. This Research Topic welcomes themes including, but not limited to:
• Review of morbidity and mortality shifts and contemporary trends in the burden of selected communicable and non-communicable diseases;
• Influence/impact of Ghana’s primary health care [PHC] approach, the community based health planning and services [CHPS] policy and the increasing influence/impact of non-communicable diseases;
• Assessment of selected aspects of the Ghana health system’s responsiveness to evolving health issues including reproductive, maternal, adolescent and child health priority setting (as part of PHC priority setting);
• Equitable financing, access, equity, and efficiency of health sector interventions in reaching outcomes.
In 1978, Ghana was a participant in the Alma-Ata meeting on primary health care and was an early adopter of its ideals. However, like most developing countries it has made efforts to strengthen public health as a way of ensuring the conditions in which its people can be healthy and productive. The evolution of the public health in the country involved core assessments, policy development, and the implementation of interventions to address its policy objectives. The process of strengthening public health policy and interventions other the past four and more decades, has hinged on evidence generated through research at the local and international level. The documentation of interventions to address contemporary health issues is a critical plank for the health practice to policy continuum; it catalyzes the country response of the myriads of public health issues confronting it. Many lessons have accrued for the country's communities to enhance the promotion, restoration, and maintenance of health even as the disease burden evolves from one of infectious and communicable diseases and maternal and child health, to an increasingly sophisticated triple burden incorporating non-communicable diseases.
Services, programs and interventions have been implemented to promote, restore and maintain health, successfully in some aspects and not so positively in others. As the country reaches the midway mark in its efforts towards the SDG targets in 2030, we expect to showcase selected interventions or approaches with the primary intent to promote, restore, and maintain health. This Research topic aims to gather a collection of articles around public health policy, primary health care, health system strengthening including health care financing, as well as on non-communicable diseases challenge. We invite papers related to Ghana's health system and papers describing the overall African context, including experiences of similarly placed countries in the areas covered by this topic. This Research Topic welcomes themes including, but not limited to:
• Review of morbidity and mortality shifts and contemporary trends in the burden of selected communicable and non-communicable diseases;
• Influence/impact of Ghana’s primary health care [PHC] approach, the community based health planning and services [CHPS] policy and the increasing influence/impact of non-communicable diseases;
• Assessment of selected aspects of the Ghana health system’s responsiveness to evolving health issues including reproductive, maternal, adolescent and child health priority setting (as part of PHC priority setting);
• Equitable financing, access, equity, and efficiency of health sector interventions in reaching outcomes.
