Communities get involved in health outcomes
At the heart of delivering quality health care is the critical question of meeting the needs of clients visiting health facilities and ensuring that their exp The post Communities get involved in health outcomes appeared first on Ghana Business News .
The Ghana Community Scorecard (CSC) project is a health care initiative aimed at improving the quality of health services provided to local communities in Ghana. This people-centred health care approach is being implemented through partnerships at the community level, involving health facilities, local government structures, and communities themselves.
By using the CSC, stakeholders can monitor the quality of services and respond to community needs, while also strengthening accountability and responsiveness. The project captures community members' perceptions of health care delivery within their Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) zones, enabling them to score their health facilities on nine quality-of-care indicators.
This provides evidence for the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and other stakeholders on where support should be targeted, ensuring that the needs and expectations of clients are met. The CSC project was developed by the Ministry of Health through the GHS in collaboration with the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) in 2018, and received a grant in 2022 from the French Government’s 5% Initiative to help scale up and institutionalize the CSC nationwide.
Brief written by urgent.news from Ghana Business News's own syndicated text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
