Open AccessChallenges to the delivery of clinical diabetes services in Ghana created by the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Eunice Twumwaa Tagoe,
Justice vig,
R.B. Van Der Meer,
Itamar Megiddo,
Brian Godman
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of health services research and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1758-1060
pISSN - 1355-8196
DOI - 10.1177/13558196221111708
Subject(s) - pandemic , service delivery framework , covid-19 , business , medicine , health care , economic shortage , service (business) , flexibility (engineering) , health policy , economic growth , public health , nursing , disease , marketing , economics , government (linguistics) , infectious disease (medical specialty) , management , pathology , linguistics , philosophy
The barriers to delivering clinical non-communicable disease services in low- and middle-income countries have risen with the onset of COVID-19. Using Ghana as a case study, this article examines the changes COVID-19 has brought to diabetes service delivery and considers policy responses to deal with future such outbreaks.