Andoh-Adjei, Francis-Xavier
Nsiah-Boateng, Eric
Asante, Felix Ankomah
Spaan, Ernst
van der Velden, Koos
Article History
Received: 9 January 2018
Accepted: 1 March 2018
First Online: 7 March 2018
Authors’ information
: FAX (MSc. MPH) is an employee at the National Health Insurance Authority, Accra-Ghana. ENB (MSc. MPH) is an employee at the National Health Insurance Authority, Accra-Ghana. ES (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of International Public Health at the Radboud University Medical Centre-Radboud Institute for Health Sciences in Nijmegen, Netherlands. FAA (PhD) is the Director for the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research at the University of Ghana-Legon, Accra-Ghana. KvdV (PhD) is Professor of Public Health at the Radboud University Medical Centre-Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen.
: We obtained ethical approval for the study (certified protocol number: UG-ECH 057/13–14) from the University of Ghana Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) Ethics Committee for Humanities (ECH) after we had sought official permission from the office of the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (approval letter dated 18/02/2014) to use the NHIS-credentialed health care providers for the study. Participation in the study was optional, and the right to respondents’ privacy was guaranteed with the signing of informed consent by respondents and interviewer.
: Not applicable.
: FAX and ENB are employees of NHIA. However, since results from the study are meant to help improve the policy intervention under consideration, their relationship with the organization does not influence the results. All authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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