Irene Agyepong
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Irene Agyepong's Degrees
- Bachelors Medicine University of Ghana
- Masters Public Health University of Ghana
- PhD Public Health University of Ghana
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Irene Akua Agyepong is a Ghanaian public health physician with the Dodowa Health Research Center and member of the Faculty of Public Health of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. Agyepong led The Lancet commission on the future of healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa.
Irene Agyepong's Published Works
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Published Works
- Republished research: Implementation research: what it is and how to do it (2013) (868)
- Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (2015) (440)
- Public social policy development and implementation: a case study of the Ghana National Health Insurance scheme. (2007) (347)
- Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Framing the Questions (2011) (321)
- Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: Social Science Matters (2011) (297)
- Equity aspects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana: Who is enrolling, who is not and why? (2011) (277)
- Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (2018) (257)
- Malaria: ethnomedical perceptions and practice in an Adangbe farming community and implications for control. (1992) (205)
- Household perceptions and their implications for enrollment in the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana. (2012) (184)
- Health worker (internal customer) satisfaction and motivation in the public sector in Ghana. (2004) (170)
- Building the Field of Health Policy and Systems Research: An Agenda for Action (2011) (145)
- Improving adherence to malaria treatment for children: the use of pre‐packed chloroquine tablets vs. chloroquine syrup (2001) (138)
- The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa (2017) (130)
- Reforming health service delivery at district level in Ghana: the perspective of a district medical officer. (1999) (111)
- MOSQUITO AVOIDANCE AND BED NET USE IN THE GREATER ACCRA REGION, GHANA (1999) (97)
- Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (2016) (94)
- Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: realist evaluation of the Leadership Development Programme for district manager decision-making in Ghana (2014) (92)
- "We charge them; otherwise we cannot run the hospital" front line workers, clients and health financing policy implementation gaps in Ghana. (2011) (91)
- The diagnosis and management of fever at household level in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana. (1994) (90)
- Individual and community determinants of neonatal mortality in Ghana: a multilevel analysis (2014) (87)
- The “Universal” in UHC and Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: policy and implementation challenges and dilemmas of a lower middle income country (2016) (76)
- When 'solutions of yesterday become problems of today': crisis-ridden decision making in a complex adaptive system (CAS)--the Additional Duty Hours Allowance in Ghana. (2012) (72)
- Strategies to improve adherence to recommended chloroquine treatment regimes: a quasi-experiment in the context of integrated primary health care delivery in Ghana. (2002) (70)
- Contextual Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight: A Multilevel Analysis (2014) (70)
- Pregnancy-associated malaria in a rural community of ghana. (2009) (65)
- 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 (2014) (65)
- An evaluation of Health Workers for Change in seven settings: a useful management and health system development tool. (2001) (63)
- Efficiency, equity and feasibility of strategies to identify the poor: an application to premium exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana. (2010) (62)
- Facilitators and barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence among adolescents in Ghana (2016) (55)
- Predictors of skilled attendance at delivery among antenatal clinic attendants in Ghana: a cross-sectional study of population data (2015) (53)
- Incorporating research evidence into decision-making processes: researcher and decision-maker perceptions from five low- and middle-income countries (2015) (53)
- Care Decision Making of Frontline Providers of Maternal and Newborn Health Services in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana (2013) (52)
- Identification of poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of three strategies (2010) (48)
- The role of policy actors and contextual factors in policy agenda setting and formulation: maternal fee exemption policies in Ghana over four and a half decades (2015) (47)
- Challenges in provider payment under the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme: a case study of claims management in two districts. (2012) (45)
- Strengthening health system leadership for better governance: what does it take? (2018) (45)
- Improving access to early treatment of malaria: a trial with primary school teachers as care providers (2005) (43)
- Perinatal outcomes after hypertensive disorders in pregnancy in a low resource setting (2015) (43)
- Costs, equity, efficiency and feasibility of identifying the poor in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of various strategies (2012) (41)
- Introducing vouchers for malaria prevention in Ghana and Tanzania: context and adoption of innovation in health systems. (2012) (41)
- Maternal body mass index and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A ghanaian cohort study (2016) (41)
- Management of mutual health organizations in Ghana (2006) (40)
- Community concepts of poverty: an application to premium exemptions in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (2013) (36)
- Completeness and accuracy of data transfer of routine maternal health services data in the greater Accra region (2015) (36)
- Profile: the Dodowa HDSS. (2013) (35)
- Quantifying the Validity of Routine Neonatal Healthcare Data in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana (2014) (35)
- Rethinking health systems in the context of urbanisation: challenges from four rapidly urbanising low-income and middle-income countries (2019) (35)
- 'I Used to Fight with Them but Now I Have Stopped!': Conflict and Doctor-Nurse-Anaesthetists' Motivation in Maternal and Neonatal Care Provision in a Specialist Referral Hospital (2015) (35)
- Providing practical estimates of malaria burden for health planners in resource-poor countries. (2004) (34)
- What Governs District Manager Decision Making? A Case Study of Complex Leadership in Dangme West District, Ghana (2015) (34)
- ‘Your health our concern, our health whose concern?’: perceptions of injustice in organizational relationships and processes and frontline health worker motivation in Ghana (2014) (33)
- The path dependence of district manager decision-space in Ghana (2015) (32)
- Provider adherence to first antenatal care guidelines and risk of pregnancy complications in public sector facilities: a Ghanaian cohort study (2016) (31)
- Understanding the state of health policy and systems research in West Africa and capacity strengthening needs: scoping of peer-reviewed publications trends and patterns 1990–2015 (2017) (31)
- Systematic review of prediction models for gestational hypertension and preeclampsia (2020) (31)
- Boundary-spanning: reflections on the practices and principles of Global Health (2016) (31)
- ‘It’s far too complicated’: why fragmentation persists in global health (2020) (30)
- Addressing the fragmentation of global health: the Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion (2018) (29)
- A systems view and lessons from the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. (2014) (27)
- Learning health systems: an empowering agenda for low-income and middle-income countries (2020) (27)
- Sustainability of recurrent expenditure on public social welfare programmes: expenditure analysis of the free maternal care programme of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme. (2014) (26)
- Client Factors Affect Provider Adherence to Clinical Guidelines during First Antenatal Care (2016) (25)
- Ghana's community-based primary health care: Why women and children are 'disadvantaged' by its implementation. (2018) (24)
- Critical Analysis of Ghana's Health System With a focus on equity challenges and the National Health Insurance (2007) (24)
- The effect of a clinical decision-making mHealth support system on maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Ghana: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial (2017) (24)
- Technical analysis, contestation and politics in policy agenda setting and implementation: the rise and fall of primary care maternal services from Ghana’s capitation policy (2016) (24)
- The G20 and development assistance for health: historical trends and crucial questions to inform a new era (2019) (22)
- Viewpoint: When the ‘non‐workable ideological best’ becomes the enemy of the ‘imperfect but workable good’ (2011) (21)
- Spanning maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and health systems research boundaries: conducive and limiting health systems factors to improving MNCH outcomes in West Africa (2017) (20)
- Development and validation of a prediction model for gestational hypertension in a Ghanaian cohort (2017) (20)
- The willingness to participate in biomedical research involving human beings in low‐ and middle‐income countries: a systematic review (2019) (20)
- Continuous quality improvement in public health in Ghana: CQI as a model for primary health care management and delivery. (2001) (19)
- 'The one with the purse makes policy': Power, problem definition, framing and maternal health policies and programmes evolution in national level institutionalised policy making processes in Ghana. (2016) (19)
- Pre-referral Rectal Artesunate Treatment by Community-Based Treatment Providers in Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania, and Uganda (Study 18): A Cluster-Randomized Trial (2016) (18)
- How and why front-line health workers (did not) use a multifaceted mHealth intervention to support maternal and neonatal healthcare decision-making in Ghana (2019) (17)
- Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana (2016) (16)
- Persistent fever in severe malaria in children. (1994) (16)
- Universal health coverage: breakthrough or great white elephant? (2018) (14)
- Strengthening post-graduate educational capacity for health policy and systems research and analysis: the strategy of the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa (2016) (14)
- Leadership styles in two Ghanaian hospitals in a challenging environment (2018) (14)
- Postings and transfers in the Ghanaian health system: a study of health workforce governance (2017) (13)
- Implementation research on sustainable electrification of rural primary care facilities in Ghana and Uganda (2020) (12)
- Strategic leadership capacity building for Sub-Saharan African health systems and public health governance: a multi-country assessment of essential competencies and optimal design for a Pan African DrPH (2018) (12)
- Strengthening capacities and resource allocation for co-production of health research in low and middle income countries (2021) (11)
- Reaching the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: equity aspects and strategies to improve enrolment (2008) (10)
- Using Mobile Health to Support Clinical Decision-Making to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Ghana: Insights of Frontline Health Worker Information Needs (2019) (10)
- Incidence of Adverse Events Among Healthcare Workers Following H1N1 Mass Immunization in Ghana (2013) (9)
- The effect of an mHealth clinical decision-making support system on neonatal mortality in a low resource setting: A cluster-randomized controlled trial (2019) (9)
- Mothers’ reproductive and medical history misinformation practices as strategies against healthcare providers’ domination and humiliation in maternal care decision-making interactions: an ethnographic study in Southern Ghana (2018) (9)
- Willing but unable? Extending theory to investigate community capacity to participate in Ghana's community-based health planning and service implementation. (2019) (9)
- Making sense of health estimates (2015) (8)
- Perinatal mortality among infants born during health user-fees (Cash & Carry) and the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) eras in Ghana: a cross-sectional study (2016) (8)
- Improved prediction of gestational hypertension by inclusion of placental growth factor and pregnancy associated plasma protein-a in a sample of Ghanaian women (2018) (8)
- A comparative study of clinical and sociocultural aspects of anaemia among adolescent girls in rural Ghana. (1997) (7)
- Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana: impacts and challenges of health policies and programs (2016) (7)
- Health Policy, Health Systems Research and Analysis Capacity Assessment of the School of Public Health, University of Ghana. (2015) (7)
- A Narrative Synthesis Review of Out-of-Pocket Payments for Health Services Under Insurance Regimes: A Policy Implementation Gap Hindering Universal Health Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa (2021) (7)
- Measuring regional and district variations in the incidence of pregnancy‐induced hypertension in Ghana: challenges, opportunities and implications for maternal and newborn health policy and programmes (2015) (7)
- Synergies and fragmentation in country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation for Global Health agendas: a case study of health security, universal health coverage, and health promotion in Ghana and Sierra Leone (2020) (6)
- Targeting the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme and benefits of enrollment (2008) (6)
- Rural healthcare providers coping with clinical care delivery challenges: lessons from three health centres in Ghana (2021) (6)
- Can an mhealth clinical decision-making support system improve adherence to neonatal healthcare protocols in a low-resource setting? (2020) (5)
- Implementation of a referral and expert advice call Center for Maternal and Newborn Care in the resource constrained health system context of the Greater Accra region of Ghana (2021) (5)
- The Role of the Private Sector in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From Four Health Systems (2022) (5)
- Realist evaluation to improve health systems responsiveness to neglected health needs of vulnerable groups in Ghana and Vietnam: Study protocol (2021) (4)
- Erratum to: Pathways to psychiatric care for mental disorders: a retrospective study of patients seeking mental health services at a public psychiatric facility in Ghana (2016) (4)
- Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana: impacts and challenges of health policies and programs. (2016) (4)
- Frontline health worker motivation in the provision of maternal and neonatal health care in Ghana (2011) (4)
- Anthropological Methods for Malaria Interventions (1996) (4)
- Improvisation and harm avoidance: An ethnographic study of adherence to postnatal care protocols in two hospitals in Southern Ghana. (2019) (3)
- An exploratory case study of the organizational functioning of a decision‐making and referral support call center for frontline providers of maternal and new born care in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana (2018) (3)
- Learning is a means to progress and empowerment for health systems (2022) (2)
- Towards an explanatory framework for national level maternal health policy agenda item evolution in Ghana: an embedded case study (2018) (2)
- 'Wood Already Touched by Fire is Not Hard to Set Alight': Comment on 'Constraints to Applying Systems Thinking Concepts in Health Systems: A Regional Perspective from Surveying Stakeholders in Eastern Mediterranean Countries' (2015) (2)
- Implementation of medicines pricing policies in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review (2021) (2)
- PP081. Predictors of pregnancy induced hypertension in an urban low resource setting. (2013) (2)
- Capacity, committed funding and co-production—institutionalizing implementation research in low- and middle-income countries (2020) (2)
- The effect of an mhealth clinical decision-making support system on neonatal mortality in Ghana (2019) (1)
- Using Appropriate Communication Strategies for HIV Prevention Education in Rural Communities in Ghana (2013) (1)
- Understand, Forgive and Remember: Managing and Transforming Health Systems Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa (2009) (1)
- Adherence and Treatment Change among HIV/AIDS Patients in Ghana A Nested Case Control Study (2015) (1)
- Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic for future epidemics and pandemics preparedness and response in Guinea: Findings from a scoping review (2022) (1)
- Healthy Lives for Vulnerable Women and Children: Applying Health Systems Research (2017) (1)
- Adapting the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) to engage poor urban communities in Ghana: protocol for a participatory action research study (2021) (1)
- Powers, engagements and resultant influences over the design and implementation of medicine pricing policies in Ghana (2022) (0)
- 4 Development, Equity, Gender, Health, Poverty and Militarization: Is there a Link in the Countries of West Africa? (2014) (0)
- Power sources among district health managers in Ghana: a qualitative study (2022) (0)
- Report of the pre-doctoral training program : health policy and systems (hps) and MNCAH research coaching and mentoring program (2017) (0)
- Using Mobile Health to Support Clinical Decision-Making to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Ghana: Insights of Frontline Health Worker Information Needs (Preprint) (2018) (0)
- HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM PROFILE Profile : The Dodowa HDSS (2014) (0)
- Completeness and accuracy of data transfer of routine maternal health services data in the greater Accra region (2015) (0)
- health our concern , our health whose concern ? ' : perceptions of injustice in organizational relationships and processes and frontline health worker motivation in (2018) (0)
- Accelerating progress towards attainment of MDG 4 and 5 in Ghana through basic health systems function strengthening (2011) (0)
- Multilevel Governance and Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from the Four First Waves (2023) (0)
- Implementation of medicines pricing policies in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review (2021) (0)
- 165. Improved prediction of gestational hypertension by inclusion of placental growth factor and Pregnancy Associated Plasma Protein-A in a sample of Ghanaian women (2018) (0)
- THANK YOU TO REVIEWERS 2010 (2011) (0)
- Change in glycaemic control with structured diabetes self-management education in urban low-resource settings: multicentre randomised trial of effectiveness (2023) (0)
- Figure 1, [First action taken for all morbidity in Ghana. HOSP. = hospital; TRAD = traditional.]. (2004) (0)
- The effect of anmHealth clinical decision-making support system on neonatalmortality in a low resource setting: A cluster-randomized controlled trial (2019) (0)
- Protocol for a realist synthesis of health systems responsiveness in low-income and middle-income countries (2021) (0)
- IDF21-0472 The effect of structured diabetes self-management education care on glycaemic control in Accra subsequent to COVID-19 (2021) (0)
- Strategic Purchasing for UHC in SSA – 6. A systems view of provider payment and service supply incentives under the NHIS (2014) (0)
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