Resource Type: Brief
Authors: Laurel Hatt, Slavea Chankova, and Sara Sulzbach
Published: 4/1/2009

Resource Description:

To address economic barriers to skilled delivery care, policymakers have begun experimenting with health financing interventions such as vouchers and health insurance. Ghana, for example, has passed legislation to establish a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which provides free antenatal and facility-based delivery care to insured women. The Ghana example serves as a useful case study for safe motherhood financing interventions. This policy brief reviews data from a pre-post evaluation and investigates the impact of implementing the Ghana NHIS on utilization of antenatal and delivery care services, and on measures of financial protection.