Augustine Adomah-afari

Understanding Health Care Financing and Management: of Mutual Health Organisations in Developing Countries a Case Study of Ghana Augustine Adomah-afari

Chapter one is an introduction to the research (book). Chapter two presents an analysis of the problems of health financing in Sub-Saharan Africa within which Ghana is located. Chapter three is a review of literature on theory and delivery of the mutual health organisations. Chapter four explains the development, good practices and sustainability of mutual health organisations in other developing countries. Chapter five is the case study that focuses on Ghana. Chapter six discusses the health sector reforms in the context of Ghana. Chapter seven discusses the emergence of mutual health organisations with particular reference to Ghana. Chapter eight discusses the theoretical framework used to interpret the findings of the empirical study. Chapter nine presents the research methodology. Chapter ten examines the performance of the mutual health organisations on the basis of their operations. Chapter eleven examines the influence of external agencies on the performance of the mutual health organisations. Chapter twelve is the analysis and discussion of the empirical findings as interpreted within the theoretical models of social policy and community field theories.