Table 8.

Service delivery model in Ghana

Level of care	Services offered	Occupations
Level 1: community-based health planning and services (CHPS) Compound/zones Serves 5000 people or 750 households	Preventive care and curative care, maternal and reproductive health, supervised delivery, neonatal and child health services, health education, sanitation and counselling on healthy lifestyles and good nutrition, patient follow-up	Community health nurse, Enrolled Nurse and Midwife
Level 2: Health centres (HCs) Serve 20 000 or fewer people (Urban areas with higher populations have polyclinics)	Preventive care and curative care, outpatient services for communicable and non-communicable diseases e.g. TB. HIV, malaria, hypertension, diabetes etc., maternal services, basic emergency care, referral services	Physician Assistant (Medical), General Nurses, Enrolled Nurses, Midwives Community health nurse, Mental Health Nurse, Laboratory Laboratory Technician, Dispensing Technician and Assistant
Level 3: district/primary hospitals Serves between 100 000 and 200 000 people	Preventive care and curative care, quality clinical care, selected surgeries, laboratory and other diagnostic services, basic inpatient care, training and technical supervision to health centres, non-clinical support services, referral services	Doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, laboratory scientists, and other paramedics