Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme--a systems approach.

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Published in Health Res Policy Syst on August 05, 2014

Authors

Irene A Agyepong1, Geneieve C Aryeetey, Justice Nonvignon, Francis Asenso-Boadi, Helen Dzikunu, Edward Antwi, Daniel Ankrah, Charles Adjei-Acquah, Reuben Esena, Moses Aikins, Daniel K Arhinful

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Health Policy Planning and Management (HPPM), University of Ghana School of Public Health, P,O, Box LG 13, Legon, Accra, Ghana. iagyepong@hotmail.com.

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