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Table 5 Additional interventions included, per package

From: Supporting a review of the benefits package of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana

Category

Package Best buys

Package Current

Package Primary care

Package Coinsurance—CHPS

Package Coinsurance—budget

HIV/AIDS

ART (first- and second-line treatment, intensive monitoring)

ART (first- and second-line treatment, intensive monitoring)

 

ART (first- and second-line treatment, intensive monitoring)

ART (first- and second-line treatment, intensive monitoring)

  

ART (first-line treatment, no intensive monitoring)

  

Maternal and neonatal

Emergency neonatal care

Emergency neonatal care

 

Emergency neonatal care

Emergency neonatal care

Emergency obstetric care

Emergency obstetric care

 

Emergency obstetric care

Emergency obstetric care

 

Hepatitis B vaccination to prevent perinatal transmission

Hepatitis B vaccination to prevent perinatal transmission

Hepatitis B vaccination to prevent perinatal transmission

Hepatitis B vaccination to prevent perinatal transmission

Non-communicable diseases

 

Breast cancer treatment

  

Breast cancer treatment

 

Cervical cancer treatment

  

Cervical cancer treatment

Pap smear (at age 40) + treatment if necessary

Pap smear (at age 40) + treatment if necessary

 

Pap smear (at age 40) + treatment if necessary

Pap smear (at age 40) + treatment if necessary

  

Pap smear (at age 40) + removal of lesions

  
 

Preventive drug treatment for patients at risk of CVD event

Preventive drug treatment for patients at risk of CVD event

Preventive drug treatment for patients at risk of CVD event

Preventive drug treatment for patients at risk of CVD event

 

Drug treatment asthma

 

Drug treatment asthma

Drug treatment asthma

 

Drug treatment of post-acute IHD & stroke

Drug treatment of post-acute IHD & stroke

 

Drug treatment of post-acute IHD & stroke

Psychological and neurological

 

Drug + psychosocial treatment bipolar disorder

 

Drug + psychosocial treatment bipolar disorder

Drug + psychosocial treatment bipolar disorder

 

Episodic treatment unipolar depression

 

Episodic treatment unipolar depression

 

Tuberculosis

Minimal DOTS plus resistant cases

Minimal DOTS plus resistant cases

 

Minimal DOTS plus resistant cases

Minimal DOTS plus resistant cases

  

Minimal DOTS

  
  1. *ART antiretroviral therapy, CVD cardiovascular disease, DOTS directly observed treatment, short course, IHD ischaemic heart disease