NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Original or alternative title The Health Sector in Ghana: Facts and Figures 2009 Provider Ghana Health ServiceTabulations only Geography Ghana (GHA) Coverage type Country Time period covered 01/1988 - 12/2009 Series or system Ghana Health Sector Facts and Figures Data type Report: Epi surveillanceNationally representativeSubnationally representative Summary The Ghana Health Service (GHS) is an agency of the Ministry of Health that distributes The Health Sector in Ghana: Facts and Figures, 2009 document. The data are based on summaries and population-based indicators collected by the GHS. Strategic objectives related to overall health, reproduction, nutrition, healthcare system development, and financing are listed. Keywords Adult mortality, Alcohol use, Anemia, Antenatal care, Antimalarials, Antiretroviral therapy, BCG vaccines, Birth certificates, Breastfeeding, Child mortality, Community health clinics, Community health workers, Contraceptives, Coroners, DTP vaccines, Death certificates, Dental caries, Dentists, Diarrhea, Diarrheal diseases, Dracunculiasis, Economic indicators, Education, Education access, Family planning, Fertility, GDP, Gastritis and duodenitis, Gynecological diseases, HIV and AIDS, Health care expenditures, Health care personnel, Hospitals, Household water treatment, Hypertension, Immunization, Income, Infant mortality, Injuries, Insecticide-treated bednets, Internet, Intestinal nematode infections, Lab personnel, Life expectancy, Literacy, Lower respiratory infections, Malaria, Maternal mortality, Measles vaccines, Meningitis, Mortality, Nurses, Oral conditions, Personal caregivers, Pharmacists, Physical therapists, Physical therapy, Physicians, Place of delivery, Polio vaccines, Population, Population density, Postnatal care, Pregnancy complications, Prevalence, Road traffic injuries, School enrollment, Sense organ diseases, Sepsis, Skilled birth attendants, Skin diseases, Surgeons, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Tuberculosis, Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, Upper respiratory infections, Varicella, Vital statistics, Weight, Yellow fever vaccines Citation Contributors Ghana Health Service Ministry of Health (Ghana) Publisher Ghana Health Service Suggested citation Ghana Health Service, Ministry of Health (Ghana). Ghana Health Sector Facts and Figures 2009. Accra, Ghana: Ghana Health Service. GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 15, 2021