Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on essential health and nutrition service utilisations in Ghana: interrupted time-series analyses from 2016 to 2020.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the national-level and subnational-level effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on essential health and nutrition service utilisation in Ghana.

Design: Interrupted time-series.

Setting And Participants: This study used facility-level data of 7950 governmental and non-governmental health facilities in Ghana between January 2016 and November 2020.

Institutional mortality rate and cause of death at health facilities in Ghana between 2014 and 2018.

Background: The epidemiological transition, touted as occurring in Ghana, requires research that tracks the changing patterns of diseases in order to capture the trend and improve healthcare delivery. This study examines national trends in mortality rate and cause of death at health facilities in Ghana between 2014 and 2018.

Methods: Institutional mortality data and cause of death from 2014-2018 were sourced from the Ghana Health Service's District Health Information Management System.