Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). An Evaluation

Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Health - Health system, grade: 85.0, University of Ghana, Legon (Department of Political Science), course: Public Adminstration, language: English, abstract: Policy evaluation involves six primary criteria; and this paper examined these criteria vis-à-vis the Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) policy in Ghana. Policy evaluation is a very important tool for assessing progress of policy, projects and programmes implementation. It involves a number of processes including, central analysis and preparation of ideas about values, objectives, priorities and claims about facts and cause-effect linkages. This enable analysts to produce valuations about past or possible future actions by public agencies.

Mr. GILBERT ARHINFUL AIDOO is a Political Science Lecturer (Assistant) in the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), Ghana. He holds M. Phil Political Science degree from the University of Ghana, Legon.