Determinants of health-seeking behaviour in rural district of Jasikan, Ghana: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The Ghana Health Service aims to ensure the health of all Ghanaians. Understanding the factors that influence people's health-seeking behaviour will help the Ghana Health Service evaluate and enact policies that will enable it to achieve set targets. This research aimed to determine the factors that influence the health-seeking behaviour of the residents of Jasikan District and ascertain the importance of the well-being clinic in this context.

"From experts to locals hands" healthcare service planning in sub-Saharan Africa: an insight from the integrated community case management of Ghana.

Background: Although community participation remains an essential component globally in healthcare service planning, evidence of how rural communities participate in the planning of rural-based healthcare programs has less been explored in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Objective: We explored communities' participation in health care planning in hard-to-reach communities, within the context of Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), a community-based health program implemented in Ghana.

Methods: Qualitative data were collected from eleven (11) hard-to-reach communities through Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) as well as district-level studies (Nadowli-Kaleo, and WA East districts of Ghana).