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Dr. Augustine Adomah-Afari

Dr. Augustine Adomah-Afari
Snr. Lecturer
aadomah-afari@ug.edu.gh

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD             - Sheffield Hallam University, UK                                                                                   
  • MA              - Sheffield Hallam University, UK                                              
  • MBA            - University of Ghana, Ghana   
  • BSc. Admin  - University of Ghana, Ghana

 

Research Interests

  • Health system reforms
  • Health policy Financing
  • Planning and Management  
  • Relationships Marketing
  • Human Resources Management
  • Community-based organisations.

Research Related Studies

  • Afari-Adomah, A. (2009).  Health Sector Reforms: A Study of Mutual Health Organisations in Ghana. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University. UK: Sheffield.  Electronic Theses Online Service, EThOS Persistent ID: uk.bl.ethos.526146.
  • Afari-Adomah, A. (2009).  Health Sector Reforms: A Study of Mutual Health Organisations in Ghana. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University. UK: Sheffield.
  • Afari-Adomah, A. (2004).  Using Interviews in Case Study Approach: Methodological Issues in Qualitative Research. MA in Social Science Research Methods (Organisation & Management) Dissertation, Sheffield Hallam University. UK: Sheffield.
  • Afari-Adomah, A. (2000).  A Study of Relationship Marketing of Public and Private Hospitals in Ghana. MBA Thesis, University of Ghana. Ghana: Legon.
  • Afari-Adomah, A. (1996).  The Concept and Operations of the Cash and Carry System of Drugs Supply: A Case Study of the Sunyani Regional Hospital. BSc. Administration. Long Essay, University of Ghana. Ghana: Legon.

Journal Publications

  • Adomah-Afari, A. & Chandler, J.A. (in press).  The role of government and community in the scaling up and sustainability of mutual health organisations in Ghana, Journal of Health Economics, Policy and Law. 
  • Adomah-Afari, A. (in press).  The role of mutual health organisations as facilitators and / or barriers towards the successful implementation of national health insurance scheme: An exploratory study in Ghana, Palgrave Macmillan Journal of Health Systems.  
  • Adomah-Afari, A. (in press).  The contribution of community leadership upon the performance of mutual health organisations in Ghana,  Journal of Health Organisation and Management.
  • Adomah-Afari, A. (in press). Challenges to performance and sustainability of mutual health organisations and health institutions in increasing access to health care in Ghana, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance. 
  • Adomah-Afari, A. (in press).  Influence of National Health Insurance Act on financial viability and performance of mutual health organisations: An exploratory study in Ghana, Financial Accountability & Management.
  • Adomah-Afari, A. (in press).  Influence of relationship marketing on patient satisfaction at two specialist hospitals in Accra, Ghana, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance.
  • Dedo, K.K.. & Adomah-Afari, A. (in press).  Influence of patient factors on tuberculosis (TB) retreatment in the Tema Metropolis, Ghana.   Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Book(s)
  • Augustine Adomah-Afari (2012). Understanding Health Care Financing and Management of Mutual Health Organisations in Developing Countries – A Case Study of Ghana.  Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishers.  ISBN: 978-3-659-18537-3.
  • Augustine Adomah-Afari (2012).  Understanding Relationships Marketing of Public and Private Hospitals in Ghana.  Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishers.  ISBN: 978-3-659-28243-0. 

Conference Presentations

  • Daff, B.M., Tlotlego, N., Atim, C. & Adomah-Afari, A.  “From Community to National Health Insurance: A New Approach to Social Health Insurance in Africa?”  Paper Presented at the Inaugural Conference of the African Health Economics & Policy Association (AfHEA): Priorities of Health Economics in Africa, 10th – 12th March, 2009, Ghana: Accra.
  • Adomah-Afari, A. “Health Sector Reforms in Developing Countries: A Study of the Financial, Institutional and Social Dynamics of Mutual Health Organisations in Ghana”. Paper/Poster Presented at the Inaugural Conference of the African Health Economics & Policy Association (AfHEA): Priorities of Health Economics in Africa, 10th – 12th March, 2009, Ghana: Accra.
  • Adomah-Afari, A. “The Invincible Hand of Government in Community Initiatives: A Study of Mutual Health Organisations in Ghana”. Paper Presented at the Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University PhD Conference, 29th January, 2009, UK: Sheffield.