Evelyn K Ansah

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The effect of a clinical decision-making mHealth support system on maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Ghana: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Irene Akua Agyepong, more

Trials > 2017 > 18 > 1 > 1-11

Background Mobile health (mHealth) presents one of the potential solutions to maximize health worker impact and efficiency in an effort to reach the Sustainable Development Goals 3.1 and 3.2, particularly in sub-Saharan African countries. Poor-quality clinical decision-making is known to be associated with poor pregnancy and birth outcomes. This study aims to assess the effect of a clinical decision-making...

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Provider adherence to first antenatal care guidelines and risk of pregnancy complications in public sector facilities: a Ghanaian cohort study

Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch, Irene Akua Agyepong, Gbenga A. Kayode, more

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth > 2016 > 16 > 1 > 1-10

Background Guideline utilization aims at improvement in quality of care and better health outcomes. The objective of the current study was to determine the effect of provider complete adherence to the first antenatal care guidelines on the risk of maternal and neonatal complications in a low resource setting. Methods Women delivering in 11 health facilities in the Greater Accra region of Ghana were...

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Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana

Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Irene Akua Agyepong, Gbenga A. Kayode, Diederick E. Grobbee, more

BMC Health Services Research > 2016 > 16 > 1 > 1-9

Background Lack of resources has been identified as a reason for non-adherence to clinical guidelines. Our aim was to describe public health facility resource availability in relation to provider adherence to first antenatal visit guidelines. Methods A cross-sectional analysis of the baseline data of a prospective cohort study on adherence to first antenatal care visit guidelines was carried out...

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Factors influencing choice of care-seeking for acute fever comparing private chemical shops with health centres and hospitals in Ghana: a study using case–control methodology

Evelyn K. Ansah, Margaret Gyapong, Solomon Narh-Bana, Constance Bart-Plange, more

Malaria Journal > 2016 > 15 > 1 > 1-9

Background Several public health interventions to improve management of patients with fever are largely focused on the public sector yet a high proportion of patients seek care outside the formal healthcare sector. Few studies have provided information on the determinants of utilization of the private sector as against formal public sector. Understanding the differences between those who attend public...

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The indirect effects of subsidised healthcare in rural Ghana

Timothy Powell-Jackson, Evelyn K. Ansah

Social Science & Medicine > 2015 > 144 > Complete > 96-103

Social networks provide a channel through which health policies and programmes can affect those with close social ties to the intended beneficiaries. We provide experimental evidence on the indirect effects of heavily subsidised healthcare. By exploiting data on 2151 households from a randomised study conducted in a rural district of Ghana in 2005, we estimate the extent to which social networks,...

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Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality

Marcel Tanner, Brian Greenwood, Christopher J. M. Whitty, Evelyn K. Ansah, more

BMC Medicine > 2015 > 13 > 1 > 1-22

Although global efforts in the past decade have halved the number of deaths due to malaria, there are still an estimated 219 million cases of malaria a year, causing more than half a million deaths. In this forum article, we asked experts working in malaria research and control to discuss the ways in which malaria might eventually be eradicated. Their collective views highlight the challenges and...

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Completeness and accuracy of data transfer of routine maternal health services data in the greater Accra region

Mary Amoakoh-Coleman, Gbenga A Kayode, Charles Brown-Davies, Irene Akua Agyepong, more

BMC Research Notes > 2015 > 8 > 1 > 1-9

Background High quality routine health system data is essential for tracking progress towards attainment of the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5. This study aimed to determine the completeness and accuracy of transfer of routine maternal health service data at health facility, district and regional levels of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Methods A cross sectional study was conducted...

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Who benefits from free healthcare? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

Timothy Powell-Jackson, Kara Hanson, Christopher J.M. Whitty, Evelyn K. Ansah

Journal of Development Economics > 2014 > 107 > Complete > 305-319

We examine the impact of removing user fees for healthcare in rural Ghana using data from a randomized experiment that includes rich information on objective measures of child health status. We find that free care increased use of formal healthcare shifting care seeking away from informal providers, with particularly strong effects for children who were anaemic at baseline. There was no health effect...

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The practice of ‘doing’ evaluation: lessons learned from nine complex intervention trials in action

Joanna Reynolds, Deborah DiLiberto, Lindsay Mangham-Jefferies, Evelyn K Ansah, more

Implementation Science > 2014 > 9 > 1 > 1-12

Background There is increasing recognition among trialists of the challenges in understanding how particular ‘real-life’ contexts influence the delivery and receipt of complex health interventions. Evaluations of interventions to change health worker and/or patient behaviours in health service settings exemplify these challenges. When interpreting evaluation data, deviation from intended intervention...

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The effect of a clinical decision-making mHealth support system on maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Ghana: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Provider adherence to first antenatal care guidelines and risk of pregnancy complications in public sector facilities: a Ghanaian cohort study

Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana

Factors influencing choice of care-seeking for acute fever comparing private chemical shops with health centres and hospitals in Ghana: a study using case–control methodology

The indirect effects of subsidised healthcare in rural Ghana

Malaria eradication and elimination: views on how to translate a vision into reality

Completeness and accuracy of data transfer of routine maternal health services data in the greater Accra region

Who benefits from free healthcare? Evidence from a randomized experiment in Ghana

The practice of ‘doing’ evaluation: lessons learned from nine complex intervention trials in action

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