Towards universal access to healthcare for older adults: an assessment of the old-age exemption policy under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme

Abstract Background Despite calls for governments to provide universal health coverage for all, social health insurance programmes (SHI) that specifically target older adults continue to be largely absent in many African countries. Only a few African countries have implemented SHI programmes that in...

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Main Authors: Fidelia A. A. Dake, Nele van der Wielen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-03-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-020-1156-2