Irene A. Agyepong, Ph.D. - Publications

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2000 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 
Area:
Public Health, Health Care Management

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2024 Agyepong IA, Barasa E, Sheikh K, Lehmann U, Gilson L, Dahoui Y, Godt S, Sombie I. Health policy and systems research capacity development to support maternal, new-born, child and adolescent health in West and Central Africa. Ghana Medical Journal. 56: 3-12. PMID 38322739 DOI: 10.4314/gmj.v56i3s.2  0.39
2024 Afun NEE, Aye GE, Yevoo LL, Godt S, Binka C, Okine V, Agyepong IA. Establishing communities of practice to improve health policy, systems and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in West Africa. Ghana Medical Journal. 56: 32-42. PMID 38322735 DOI: 10.4314/gmj.v56i3s.5  0.404
2023 Agblevor EA, Darko NA, Acquah PA, Addom S, Mirzoev T, Agyepong IA. "We have nice policies but…": implementation gaps in the Ghana adolescent health service policy and strategy (2016-2020). Frontiers in Public Health. 11: 1198150. PMID 38148876 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1198150  0.338
2023 Ayim A, Agyepong IA, Enyimayew N. Why district assemblies disburse resources to district health systems for service delivery at district level in the context of decentralization: a comparative study of two districts in the Volta Region of Ghana. Frontiers in Public Health. 11: 1136210. PMID 37645704 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1136210  0.364
2023 Elsey H, Abboah-Offei M, Vidyasagaran AL, Anaseba D, Wallace L, Nwameme A, Gyasi A, Ayim A, Ansah-Ofei A, Amedzro N, Dovlo D, Agongo E, Awoonor-Williams K, Agyepong I. Implementation of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in rural and urban Ghana: a history and systematic review of what works, for whom and why. Frontiers in Public Health. 11: 1105495. PMID 37435526 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1105495  0.39
2023 Awini E, Agyepong IA, Owiredu D, Gyimah L, Ashinyo ME, Yevoo LL, Aye SGEV, Abbas S, Cronin de Chavez A, Kane S, Mirzoev T, Danso-Appiah A. Burden of mental health problems among pregnant and postpartum women in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. Bmj Open. 13: e069545. PMID 37286328 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069545  0.357
2023 Agyepong I, Spicer N, Ooms G, Jahn A, Bärnighausen T, Beiersmann C, Brown Amoakoh H, Fink G, Guo Y, Hennig L, Kifle Habtemariam M, Kouyaté BA, Loewenson R, Micah A, Moon S, et al. Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion. Lancet (London, England). PMID 37224836 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01930-4  0.382
2023 Kashiya Y, Ekofo J, Kabanga C, Agyepong I, Van Damme W, Van Belle S, Mukinda F, Chenge F. Multilevel Governance and Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from the Four First Waves. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20. PMID 36767346 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20031980  0.336
2022 Kolié D, Keita FN, Delamou A, Dossou JP, Van Damme W, Agyepong IA. Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic for future epidemics and pandemics preparedness and response in Guinea: Findings from a scoping review. Frontiers in Public Health. 10: 879850. PMID 36324458 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.879850  0.372
2022 Wallace LJ, Agyepong I, Baral S, Barua D, Das M, Huque R, Joshi D, Mbachu C, Naznin B, Nonvignon J, Ofosu A, Onwujekwe O, Sharma S, Quayyum Z, Ensor T, et al. The Role of the Private Sector in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences From Four Health Systems. Frontiers in Public Health. 10: 878225. PMID 35712320 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.878225  0.406
2022 Bawontuo V, Adomah-Afari A, Atinga RA, Kuupiel D, Agyepong IA. Power sources among district health managers in Ghana: a qualitative study. Bmc Primary Care. 23: 68. PMID 35379175 DOI: 10.1186/s12875-022-01678-y  0.345
2021 Abboah-Offei M, Gyasi Darkwa A, Ayim A, Ansah-Ofei AM, Dovlo D, Awoonor-Williams JK, Agongo EEA, Agyepong IA, Elsey H. Adapting the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) to engage poor urban communities in Ghana: protocol for a participatory action research study. Bmj Open. 11: e049564. PMID 34315798 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049564  0.333
2021 Mirzoev T, Cronin de Chavez A, Manzano A, Agyepong IA, Ashinyo ME, Danso-Appiah A, Gyimah L, Yevoo L, Awini E, Ha BTT, Do Thi Hanh T, Nguyen QT, Le TM, Le VT, Hicks JP, et al. Protocol for a realist synthesis of health systems responsiveness in low-income and middle-income countries. Bmj Open. 11: e046992. PMID 34112643 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046992  0.35
2021 Derkyi-Kwarteng ANC, Agyepong IA, Enyimayew N, Gilson L. A Narrative Synthesis Review of Out-of-Pocket Payments for Health Services Under Insurance Regimes: A Policy Implementation Gap Hindering Universal Health Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 10: 443-461. PMID 34060270 DOI: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.38  0.396
2021 Agyepong IA, M'Cormack-Hale FAO, Brown Amoakoh H, Derkyi-Kwarteng ANC, Darkwa TE, Odiko-Ollennu W. Synergies and fragmentation in country level policy and program agenda setting, formulation and implementation for Global Health agendas: a case study of health security, universal health coverage, and health promotion in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Bmc Health Services Research. 21: 476. PMID 34016117 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-021-06500-6  0.439
2021 Mirzoev T, Koduah A, Cronin de Chavez A, Baatiema L, Danso-Appiah A, Ensor T, Agyepong IA, Wright JM, Kretchy IA, King N. Implementation of medicines pricing policies in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review. Bmj Open. 11: e044293. PMID 33622951 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044293  0.313
2021 Agyepong IA, Godt S, Sombie I, Binka C, Okine V, Ingabire MG. Strengthening capacities and resource allocation for co-production of health research in low and middle income countries. Bmj (Clinical Research Ed.). 372: n166. PMID 33593725 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n166  0.337
2021 Bawontuo V, Adomah-Afari A, Amoah WW, Kuupiel D, Agyepong IA. Rural healthcare providers coping with clinical care delivery challenges: lessons from three health centres in Ghana. Bmc Family Practice. 22: 32. PMID 33546608 DOI: 10.1186/s12875-021-01379-y  0.442
2021 Mirzoev T, Manzano A, Ha BTT, Agyepong IA, Trang DTH, Danso-Appiah A, Thi LM, Ashinyo ME, Vui LT, Gyimah L, Chi NTQ, Yevoo L, Duong DTT, Awini E, Hicks JP, et al. Realist evaluation to improve health systems responsiveness to neglected health needs of vulnerable groups in Ghana and Vietnam: Study protocol. Plos One. 16: e0245755. PMID 33481929 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245755  0.386
2021 Oduro-Mensah E, Agyepong IA, Frimpong E, Zweekhorst M, Vanotoo LA. Implementation of a referral and expert advice call Center for Maternal and Newborn Care in the resource constrained health system context of the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Bmc Pregnancy and Childbirth. 21: 56. PMID 33441115 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-020-03534-2  0.331
2021 Javadi D, Ssempebwa J, Isunju JB, Yevoo L, Amu A, Nabiwemba E, Pfeiffer M, Agyepong I, Severi L. Implementation research on sustainable electrification of rural primary care facilities in Ghana and Uganda. Health Policy and Planning. 35: ii124-ii136. PMID 33156941 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czaa077  0.423
2020 Amoakoh HB, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Agyepong IA, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Kayode GA, Reitsma JB, Grobbee DE, Ansah EK. Can an mhealth clinical decision-making support system improve adherence to neonatal healthcare protocols in a low-resource setting? Bmc Pediatrics. 20: 534. PMID 33243172 DOI: 10.1186/s12887-020-02378-1  0.383
2020 Spicer N, Agyepong I, Ottersen T, Jahn A, Ooms G. 'It's far too complicated': why fragmentation persists in global health. Globalization and Health. 16: 60. PMID 32646471 DOI: 10.1186/S12992-020-00592-1  0.505
2019 Yevoo LL, Agyepong IA, Gerrits T, van Dijk H. Improvisation and harm avoidance: An ethnographic study of adherence to postnatal care protocols in two hospitals in Southern Ghana. Midwifery. 82: 102576. PMID 31869728 DOI: 10.1016/J.Midw.2019.102576  0.446
2019 Kwamie A, Agyepong IA, van Dijk H. What Governs District Manager Decision Making? A Case Study of Complex Leadership in Dangme West District, Ghana. Health Systems and Reform. 1: 167-177. PMID 31546310 DOI: 10.1080/23288604.2015.1032475  0.45
2019 Amoakoh HB, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Agyepong IA, Zuithoff NPA, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Kayode GA, Sarpong C, Reitsma JB, Grobbee DE, Ansah EK. The effect of an mHealth clinical decision-making support system on neonatal mortality in a low resource setting: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. Eclinicalmedicine. 12: 31-42. PMID 31388661 DOI: 10.1016/J.Eclinm.2019.05.010  0.377
2019 Elsey H, Agyepong I, Huque R, Quayyem Z, Baral S, Ebenso B, Kharel C, Shawon RA, Onwujekwe O, Uzochukwu B, Nonvignon J, Aryeetey GC, Kane S, Ensor T, Mirzoev T. Rethinking health systems in the context of urbanisation: challenges from four rapidly urbanising low-income and middle-income countries. Bmj Global Health. 4: e001501. PMID 31297245 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjgh-2019-001501  0.527
2019 Dieleman JL, Cowling K, Agyepong IA, Alkenbrack S, Bollyky TJ, Bump JB, Chen CS, Grépin KA, Haakenstad A, Harle AC, Kates J, Lavado RF, Micah AE, Ottersen T, Tandon A, et al. The G20 and development assistance for health: historical trends and crucial questions to inform a new era. Lancet (London, England). PMID 31257126 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(19)31333-9  0.473
2019 Amoakoh HB, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Grobbee DE, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Oduro-Mensah E, Sarpong C, Frimpong E, Kayode GA, Agyepong IA, Ansah EK. Using Mobile Health to Support Clinical Decision-Making to Improve Maternal and Neonatal Health Outcomes in Ghana: Insights of Frontline Health Worker Information Needs. Jmir Mhealth and Uhealth. 7: e12879. PMID 31127719 DOI: 10.2196/12879  0.526
2019 Amoakoh HB, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Ansah EK, Grobbee DE, Yveoo L, Agyepong I. How and why front-line health workers (did not) use a multifaceted mHealth intervention to support maternal and neonatal healthcare decision-making in Ghana. Bmj Global Health. 4: e001153. PMID 30997162 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjgh-2018-001153  0.399
2018 Atinga RA, Agyepong IA, Esena RK. Willing but unable? Extending theory to investigate community capacity to participate in Ghana's community-based health planning and service implementation. Evaluation and Program Planning. 72: 170-178. PMID 30368104 DOI: 10.1016/J.Evalprogplan.2018.10.001  0.417
2018 Agyepong IA. Universal health coverage: breakthrough or great white elephant? Lancet (London, England). PMID 30309621 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32402-4  0.511
2018 Ooms G, Ottersen T, Jahn A, Agyepong IA. Addressing the fragmentation of global health: the Lancet Commission on synergies between universal health coverage, health security, and health promotion. Lancet (London, England). 392: 1098-1099. PMID 30201272 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32072-5  0.482
2018 Frimpong E, Oduro-Mensah E, Vanotoo L, Agyepong IA. An exploratory case study of the organizational functioning of a decision-making and referral support call center for frontline providers of maternal and new born care in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 33: e1112-e1123. PMID 30095184 DOI: 10.1002/Hpm.2595  0.402
2018 Koduah A, Agyepong IA, van Dijk H. Towards an explanatory framework for national level maternal health policy agenda item evolution in Ghana: an embedded case study. Health Research Policy and Systems. 16: 76. PMID 30075722 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-018-0354-5  0.492
2018 Gilson L, Agyepong IA. Strengthening health system leadership for better governance: what does it take? Health Policy and Planning. 33: ii1-ii4. PMID 30053034 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czy052  0.349
2018 Agyepong IA, Lehmann U, Rutembemberwa E, Babich SM, Frimpong E, Kwamie A, Olivier J, Teddy G, Hwabamungu B, Gilson L. Strategic leadership capacity building for Sub-Saharan African health systems and public health governance: a multi-country assessment of essential competencies and optimal design for a Pan African DrPH. Health Policy and Planning. 33: ii35-ii49. PMID 30053033 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czx162  0.488
2018 Aberese-Ako M, Agyepong IA, van Dijk H. Leadership styles in two Ghanaian hospitals in a challenging environment. Health Policy and Planning. 33: ii16-ii26. PMID 30053032 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czy038  0.405
2018 Yevoo LL, Agyepong IA, Gerrits T, van Dijk H. Mothers' reproductive and medical history misinformation practices as strategies against healthcare providers' domination and humiliation in maternal care decision-making interactions: an ethnographic study in Southern Ghana. Bmc Pregnancy and Childbirth. 18: 274. PMID 29970029 DOI: 10.1186/S12884-018-1916-9  0.331
2018 Atinga RA, Agyepong IA, Esena RK. Ghana's community-based primary health care: Why women and children are 'disadvantaged' by its implementation. Social Science & Medicine (1982). 201: 27-34. PMID 29427893 DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2018.02.001  0.469
2018 Boerma T, Requejo J, Victora CG, Amouzou A, George A, Agyepong I, Barroso C, Barros AJD, Bhutta ZA, Black RE, Borghi J, Buse K, Aguirre LC, Chopra M, Chou D, et al. Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health The Lancet. 391: 1538-1548. PMID 29395268 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30104-1  0.499
2017 Agyepong IA, Sewankambo N, Binagwaho A, Coll-Seck AM, Corrah T, Ezeh A, Fekadu A, Kilonzo N, Lamptey P, Masiye F, Mayosi B, Mboup S, Muyembe JJ, Pate M, Sidibe M, et al. The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa. Lancet (London, England). PMID 28917958 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31509-X  0.498
2017 Kwamie A, Asiamah M, Schaaf M, Agyepong IA. Postings and transfers in the Ghanaian health system: a study of health workforce governance. International Journal For Equity in Health. 16: 85. PMID 28911337 DOI: 10.1186/S12939-017-0583-1  0.49
2017 Agyepong IA, Kwamie A, Frimpong E, Defor S, Ibrahim A, Aryeetey GC, Lokossou V, Sombie I. Spanning maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and health systems research boundaries: conducive and limiting health systems factors to improving MNCH outcomes in West Africa. Health Research Policy and Systems. 15: 54. PMID 28722556 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-017-0212-X  0.469
2017 Defor S, Kwamie A, Agyepong IA. Understanding the state of health policy and systems research in West Africa and capacity strengthening needs: scoping of peer-reviewed publications trends and patterns 1990-2015. Health Research Policy and Systems. 15: 55. PMID 28722555 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-017-0215-7  0.498
2017 Amoakoh HB, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Agyepong IA, Kayode GA, Sarpong C, Grobbee DE, Ansah EK. The effect of a clinical decision-making mHealth support system on maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity in Ghana: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. 18: 157. PMID 28372580 DOI: 10.1186/S13063-017-1897-4  0.476
2016 Sheikh K, Schneider H, Agyepong IA, Lehmann U, Gilson L. Boundary-spanning: reflections on the practices and principles of Global Health. Bmj Global Health. 1: e000058. PMID 28588928 DOI: 10.1136/Bmjgh-2016-000058  0.451
2016 Ibrahim A, Maya ET, Donkor E, Agyepong IA, Adanu RM. Perinatal mortality among infants born during health user-fees (Cash & Carry) and the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) eras in Ghana: a cross-sectional study. Bmc Pregnancy and Childbirth. 16: 385. PMID 27931203 DOI: 10.1186/S12884-016-1179-2  0.366
2016 Amoakoh-Coleman M, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Agyepong IA, Kayode GA, Grobbee DE, Ansah EK. Provider adherence to first antenatal care guidelines and risk of pregnancy complications in public sector facilities: a Ghanaian cohort study. Bmc Pregnancy and Childbirth. 16: 369. PMID 27881104 DOI: 10.1186/S12884-016-1167-6  0.419
2016 Agyepong IA, Abankwah DN, Abroso A, Chun C, Dodoo JN, Lee S, Mensah SA, Musah M, Twum A, Oh J, Park J, Yang D, Yoon K, Otoo N, Asenso-Boadi F. The "Universal" in UHC and Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: policy and implementation challenges and dilemmas of a lower middle income country. Bmc Health Services Research. 16: 504. PMID 27655007 DOI: 10.1186/S12913-016-1758-Y  0.455
2016 Amoakoh-Coleman M, Agyepong IA, Kayode GA, Grobbee DE, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Ansah EK. Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana. Bmc Health Services Research. 16: 505. PMID 27654404 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1747-1  0.358
2016 Koduah A, Agyepong IA, van Dijk H. 'The one with the purse makes policy': Power, problem definition, framing and maternal health policies and programmes evolution in national level institutionalised policy making processes in Ghana. Social Science & Medicine (1982). 167: 79-87. PMID 27614028 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.051  0.433
2016 Kayode GA, Grobbee DE, Koduah A, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Agyepong IA, Ansah E, van Dijk H, Klipstein-Grobusch K. Temporal trends in childhood mortality in Ghana: impacts and challenges of health policies and programs. Global Health Action. 9: 31907. PMID 27558221 DOI: 10.3402/Gha.V9.31907  0.391
2016 Koduah A, van Dijk H, Agyepong IA. Technical analysis, contestation and politics in policy agenda setting and implementation: the rise and fall of primary care maternal services from Ghana's capitation policy. Bmc Health Services Research. 16: 323. PMID 27473662 DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1576-2  0.353
2016 Aryeetey GC, Westeneng J, Spaan E, Jehu-Appiah C, Agyepong IA, Baltussen R. Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme. International Journal For Equity in Health. 15: 116. PMID 27449349 DOI: 10.1186/s12939-016-0401-1  0.432
2016 Erasmus E, Lehmann U, Agyepong IA, Alwar J, de Savigny D, Kamuzora P, Mirzoev T, Nxumalo N, Tomson G, Uzochukwu B, Gilson L. Strengthening post-graduate educational capacity for health policy and systems research and analysis: the strategy of the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa. Health Research Policy and Systems / Biomed Central. 14: 29. PMID 27072802 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-016-0097-0  0.437
2016 Antwi E, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Quansah Asare G, Koram KA, Grobbee D, Agyepong IA. Measuring regional and district variations in the incidence of pregnancy-induced hypertension in Ghana: challenges, opportunities and implications for maternal and newborn health policy and programmes. Tropical Medicine & International Health : Tm & Ih. 21: 93-100. PMID 26503403 DOI: 10.1111/Tmi.12626  0.434
2016 Amoakoh-Coleman M, Agyepong IA, Zuithoff NPA, Kayode GA, Grobbee DE, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Ansah EK. Client factors affect provider adherence to clinical guidelines during first antenatal care Plos One. 11. DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0157542  0.351
2016 Aryeetey GC, Westeneng J, Spaan E, Jehu-Appiah C, Agyepong IA, Baltussen R. Can health insurance protect against out-of-pocket and catastrophic expenditures and also support poverty reduction? Evidence from Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme International Journal For Equity in Health. 15. DOI: 10.1186/S12939-016-0401-1  0.519
2016 Amoakoh-Coleman M, Agyepong IA, Kayode GA, Grobbee DE, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Ansah EK. Public health facility resource availability and provider adherence to first antenatal guidelines in a low resource setting in Accra, Ghana Bmc Health Services Research. 16. DOI: 10.1186/S12913-016-1747-1  0.476
2016 Koduah A, Van Dijk H, Agyepong IA. Technical analysis, contestation and politics in policy agenda setting and implementation: The rise and fall of primary care maternal services from Ghana's capitation policy Bmc Health Services Research. 16. DOI: 10.1186/S12913-016-1576-2  0.458
2016 Kwamie A, Van Dijk H, Ansah EK, Agyepong IA. The path dependence of district manager decision-space in Ghana Health Policy and Planning. 31: 356-366. DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czv069  0.522
2016 Koduah A, Agyepong IA, van Dijk H. ‘The one with the purse makes policy’: Power, problem definition, framing and maternal health policies and programmes evolution in national level institutionalised policy making processes in Ghana Social Science and Medicine. 167: 79-87. DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2016.08.051  0.523
2015 Agyepong IA, Anniah K, Aikins M, Akweongo P, Esena R, Mirzoev T. Health Policy, Health Systems Research and Analysis Capacity Assessment of the School of Public Health, University of Ghana. Ghana Medical Journal. 49: 200-13. PMID 26693197 DOI: 10.4314/Gmj.V49I3.12  0.499
2015 Shroff Z, Aulakh B, Gilson L, Agyepong IA, El-Jardali F, Ghaffar A. Incorporating research evidence into decision-making processes: researcher and decision-maker perceptions from five low- and middle-income countries. Health Research Policy and Systems / Biomed Central. 13: 70. PMID 26621364 DOI: 10.1186/S12961-015-0059-Y  0.432
2015 Kwamie A, van Dijk H, Ansah EK, Agyepong IA. The path dependence of district manager decision-space in Ghana. Health Policy and Planning. 31: 356-66. PMID 26318537 DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czv069  0.437
2015 Koduah A, van Dijk H, Agyepong IA. The role of policy actors and contextual factors in policy agenda setting and formulation: maternal fee exemption policies in Ghana over four and a half decades. Health Research Policy and Systems. 13: 27. PMID 26022699 DOI: 10.1186/s12961-015-0016-9  0.312
2015 Amoakoh-Coleman M, Kayode GA, Brown-Davies C, Agyepong IA, Grobbee DE, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Ansah EK. Completeness and accuracy of data transfer of routine maternal health services data in the greater Accra region Bmc Research Notes. 8. PMID 25889945 DOI: 10.1186/S13104-015-1058-3  0.407
2015 Agyepong I, Corrah T, Guo Y, Hollingsworth B, Klag M, Longfield K, de Fatima Marinho de Souza M, Piot P, Rao JV, Røttingen JA, Smith P, Sprenger M, Sutton T, Curran S, Ng ES, et al. Making sense of health estimates. Lancet (London, England). 385: 1377-9. PMID 25796458 DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60024-1  0.408
2015 Agyepong IA. "Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight": Comment on "Constraints to applying systems thinking concepts in health systems: A regional perspective from surveying stakeholders in Eastern Mediterranean countries". International Journal of Health Policy and Management. 4: 191-3. PMID 25774378 DOI: 10.15171/Ijhpm.2015.34  0.438
2015 Aberese-Ako M, Agyepong IA, Gerrits T, Van Dijk H. I used to fight with them but now I have stopped!: Conflict and doctor-nurse-anaesthetists' motivation in maternal and neonatal care provision in a specialist referral hospital Plos One. 10. DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0135129  0.502
2015 Koduah A, van Dijk H, Agyepong IA. The role of policy actors and contextual factors in policy agenda setting and formulation: Maternal fee exemption policies in Ghana over four and a half decades Health Research Policy and Systems. 13. DOI: 10.1186/S12961-015-0016-9  0.408
2015 Amoakoh-Coleman M, Ansah EK, Agyepong IA, Grobbee DE, Kayode GA, Klipstein-Grobusch K. Predictors of skilled attendance at delivery among antenatal clinic attendants in Ghana: A cross-sectional study of population data Bmj Open. 5. DOI: 10.1136/Bmjopen-2015-007810  0.416
2014 Aberese-Ako M, Van Dijk H, Gerrits T, Arhinful DK, Agyepong IA. Your health our concern, our health whose concern?': Perceptions of injustice in organizational relationships and processes and frontline health worker motivation in Ghana Health Policy and Planning. 29: ii15-ii28. PMID 25274637 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czu068  0.535
2014 Kayode GA, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Brown-Davies C, Grobbee DE, Agyepong IA, Ansah E, Klipstein-Grobusch K. Quantifying the validity of routine neonatal healthcare data in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana Plos One. 9. PMID 25144222 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0104053  0.42
2014 Agyepong IA, Aryeetey GC, Nonvignon J, Asenso-Boadi F, Dzikunu H, Antwi E, Ankrah D, Adjei-Acquah C, Esena R, Aikins M, Arhinful DK. Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: provider payment and service supply behaviour and incentives in the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme--a systems approach. Health Research Policy and Systems / Biomed Central. 12: 35. PMID 25096303 DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-35  0.444
2014 Kwamie A, van Dijk H, Agyepong IA. Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: realist evaluation of the Leadership Development Programme for district manager decision-making in Ghana. Health Research Policy and Systems. 12: 29. PMID 24935521 DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-29  0.392
2014 Kwamie A, van Dijk H, Agyepong IA. Advancing the application of systems thinking in health: realist evaluation of the Leadership Development Programme for district manager decision-making in Ghana. Health Research Policy and Systems. 12: 29. PMID 24935521 DOI: 10.1186/1478-4505-12-29  0.392
2014 Kayode GA, Ansah E, Agyepong IA, Amoakoh-Coleman M, Grobbee DE, Klipstein-Grobusch K. Individual and community determinants of neonatal mortality in Ghana: A multilevel analysis Bmc Pregnancy and Childbirth. 14. PMID 24884759 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-165  0.34
2014 Peters DH, Adam T, Alonge O, Agyepong IA, Tran N. Republished research: Implementation research: what it is and how to do it: implementation research is a growing but not well understood field of health research that can contribute to more effective public health and clinical policies and programmes. This article provides a broad definition of implementation research and outlines key principles for how to do it. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 48: 731-6. PMID 24659611 DOI: 10.1136/Bmj.F6753  0.411
2013 Gyapong M, Sarpong D, Awini E, Manyeh AK, Tei D, Odonkor G, Agyepong IA, Mattah P, Wontuo P, Attaa-Pomaa M, Gyapong JO, Binka FN. Profile: the Dodowa HDSS. International Journal of Epidemiology. 42: 1686-96. PMID 24415607 DOI: 10.1093/Ije/Dyt197  0.468
2013 Ankrah Odame E, Akweongo P, Yankah B, Asenso-Boadi F, Agyepong I. Sustainability of recurrent expenditure on public social welfare programmes: expenditure analysis of the free maternal care programme of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme. Health Policy and Planning. 29: 271-9. PMID 23543198 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czt013  0.449
2013 Aryeetey GC, Jehu-Appiah C, Kotoh AM, Spaan E, Arhinful DK, Baltussen R, van der Geest S, Agyepong IA. Community concepts of poverty: an application to premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme. Globalization and Health. 9: 12. PMID 23497484 DOI: 10.1186/1744-8603-9-12  0.433
2013 Oduro-Mensah E, Kwamie A, Antwi E, Amissah Bamfo S, Bainson HM, Marfo B, Coleman MA, Grobbee DE, Agyepong IA. Care decision making of frontline providers of maternal and newborn health services in the greater Accra region of Ghana. Plos One. 8: e55610. PMID 23418446 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0055610  0.421
2012 De Savigny D, Webster J, Agyepong IA, Mwita A, Bart-Plange C, Baffoe-Wilmot A, Koenker H, Kramer K, Brown N, Lengeler C. Introducing vouchers for malaria prevention in Ghana and Tanzania: Context and adoption of innovation in health systems Health Policy and Planning. 27. PMID 23014151 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czs087  0.506
2012 Agyepong IA, Kodua A, Adjei S, Adam T. When 'solutions of yesterday become problems of today': Crisis-ridden decision making in a complex adaptive system (CAS) - The Additional Duty Hours Allowance in Ghana Health Policy and Planning. 27. PMID 23014150 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czs083  0.391
2011 Aryeetey GC, Jehu-Appiah C, Spaan E, Agyepong I, Baltussen R. Costs, equity, efficiency and feasibility of identifying the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of various strategies. Tropical Medicine & International Health : Tm & Ih. 17: 43-51. PMID 21951306 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3156.2011.02886.X  0.4
2011 Bennett S, Agyepong IA, Sheikh K, Hanson K, Ssengooba F, Gilson L. Building the field of health policy and systems research: An agenda for action Plos Medicine. 8. PMID 21918641 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pmed.1001081  0.393
2011 Gilson L, Hanson K, Sheikh K, Agyepong IA, Ssengooba F, Bennett S. Building the field of health policy and systems research: social science matters. Plos Medicine. 8: e1001079. PMID 21886488 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pmed.1001079  0.42
2011 Sheikh K, Gilson L, Agyepong IA, Hanson K, Ssengooba F, Bennett S. Building the field of health policy and systems research: framing the questions Plos Medicine. 8. PMID 21857809 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pmed.1001073  0.413
2011 Jehu-Appiah C, Aryeetey G, Agyepong I, Spaan E, Baltussen R. Household perceptions and their implications for enrollment in the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana. Health Policy and Planning. 27: 222-33. PMID 21504981 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czr032  0.495
2011 Agyepong IA, Orem JN, Hercot D. Viewpoint: When the 'non-workable ideological best' becomes the enemy of the 'imperfect but workable good' Tropical Medicine and International Health. 16: 105-109. PMID 21371211 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3156.2010.02639.X  0.418
2011 Agyepong IA, Nagai RA. " We charge them; otherwise we cannot run the hospital" front line workers, clients and health financing policy implementation gaps in Ghana Health Policy. 99: 226-233. PMID 21071106 DOI: 10.1016/J.Healthpol.2010.09.018  0.425
2010 Jehu-Appiah C, Aryeetey G, Spaan E, de Hoop T, Agyepong I, Baltussen R. Equity aspects of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana: Who is enrolling, who is not and why? Social Science & Medicine (1982). 72: 157-65. PMID 21145152 DOI: 10.1016/J.Socscimed.2010.10.025  0.507
2010 Aryeetey GC, Jehu-Appiah C, Spaan E, D'Exelle B, Agyepong I, Baltussen R. Identification of poor households for premium exemptions in Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: empirical analysis of three strategies. Tropical Medicine & International Health : Tm & Ih. 15: 1544-52. PMID 21044234 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3156.2010.02663.X  0.463
2009 Jehu-Appiah C, Aryeetey G, Spaan E, Agyepong I, Baltussen R. Efficiency, equity and feasibility of strategies to identify the poor: an application to premium exemptions under National Health Insurance in Ghana. Health Policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands). 95: 166-73. PMID 20022657 DOI: 10.1016/J.Healthpol.2009.11.017  0.476
2008 Agyepong IA, Adjei S. Public social policy development and implementation: A case study of the Ghana National Health Insurance scheme Health Policy and Planning. 23: 150-160. PMID 18245803 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/Czn002  0.401
2006 Baltussen R, Bruce E, Rhodes G, Narh-Bana SA, Agyepong I. Management of mutual health organizations in Ghana. Tropical Medicine & International Health : Tm & Ih. 11: 654-9. PMID 16640618 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3156.2006.01621.X  0.474
2005 Afenyadu GY, Agyepong IA, Barnish G, Adjei S. Improving access to early treatment of malaria: A trial with primary school teachers as care providers Tropical Medicine and International Health. 10: 1065-1072. PMID 16185242 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3156.2005.01484.X  0.314
2004 Agyepong IA, Anafi P, Asiamah E, Ansah EK, Ashon DA, Narh-Dometey C. Health worker (internal customer) satisfaction and motivation in the public sector in Ghana International Journal of Health Planning and Management. 19: 319-336. PMID 15688876 DOI: 10.1002/Hpm.770  0.473
2004 Agyepong IA, Kangeya-Kayonda J. Providing practical estimates of malaria burden for health planners in resource-poor countries American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 71: 162-167. PMID 15331833 DOI: 10.4269/Ajtmh.2004.71.162  0.463
2002 Agyepong IA, Ansah E, Gyapong M, Adjei S, Barnish G, Evans D. Strategies to improve adherence to recommended chloroquine treatment regimes: A quasi-experiment in the context of integrated primary health care delivery in Ghana Social Science and Medicine. 55: 2215-2226. PMID 12409135 DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00366-5  0.41
2001 Onyango-Ouma W, Laisser R, Mbilima M, Araoye M, Pittman P, Agyepong I, Zakari M, Fonn S, Tanner M, Vlassoff C. An evaluation of Health Workers for Change in seven settings: a useful management and health system development tool. Health Policy and Planning. 24-32. PMID 11599666 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/16.Suppl_1.24  0.5
2001 Agyepong IA, Sollecito WA, Adjei S, Veney JE. Continuous quality improvement in public health in Ghana: CQI as a model for primary health care management and delivery. Quality Management in Health Care. 9: 1-10. PMID 11499347 DOI: 10.1097/00019514-200109040-00002  0.682
1999 Agyepong IA. Reforming health service delivery at district level in Ghana: The perspective of a district medical officer Health Policy and Planning. 14: 59-69. PMID 10351470 DOI: 10.1093/Heapol/14.1.59  0.517
1996 Manderson L, Agyepong I, Aryee B, Dzikunu H. Anthropological Methods for Malaria Interventions Practicing Anthropology. 18: 32-36. DOI: 10.17730/Praa.18.3.U2562L207411171Q  0.43
1992 Agyepong IA. Malaria: Ethnomedical perceptions and practice in an Adangbe farming community and implications for control Social Science and Medicine. 35: 131-137. PMID 1509302 DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(92)90160-R  0.348
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