The Challenges of Implementing mHealth - mHealthIntelligence The study concluded that infrastructure, health information systems, capacity of health care workers, and financial resources are challenges in implementation of Keywords: Ghana, Mental health information systems, Implementation, Challenges Background The WHO estimated in 2011 that 28% of countries had no specific budget for mental health; and further, for the countries that did have a budget, an estimated 37% spent less than 1% of their health budget on mental healthcare and services [1]. 2.2 Overview of the Health System 2.2.1 Public Sector Organization of the Ministry of Health Figure 2.1 provides an outline of the various sectors and organizations for which the MoH has some responsibility. In 2012 Ghana passed a new Mental Health Act, which aimed to create a new system of mental healthcare in Ghana. Deprived communities and vulnerable groups are contending with various challenges related to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) as they try to get access to basic health care, a situation that is undermining the country's efforts to scale-up effective malaria case management and also accelerate Ghana's march towards universal health coverage (UHC). Better coordination between justice sector institutions in Ghana is needed to reduce delays in prosecution. However, challenges remain, including insufficient understanding and inadequate communication of linkages between climate change and health, poor data access and availability, and limited funding. The Ghana country health profiles provide an overview of the situation and trends of priority health problems and the health systems profile, including a description of institutional frameworks, trends in the national response, key issues and challenges. Challenges with the implementation of an Integrated Disease ... Many hospitals are already using mobile devices in some form or another, whether it included nurses using tablets to take . Ghana has a well-established national, regional and district system of hospitals, clinics and health delivery centres. The public health infrastructure has achieved full immunisation coverage. The Role of National Health Information Systems in the Response to ... The aim of this work is to describe the application of the Bottleneck analysis (BNA) process to assess gaps in immunization services in Ghana and implications for sustaining the gains in Immunization coverage.
