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Title
Investigating Citizens’ Perspectives on Ghana’s Health Security Threat Preparedness.
Creator
Gwendoline-Marie Omane-Brimpong Opoku
Description
This research discusses Citizens’ perspectives on health security threats in Ghana. The main objectives were to examine Citizens’ perspectives on Ghana’s preparedness towards managing health security threats; analyse existing measures and/or countermeasures for the recognition of health security threats as an early warning detection system; ascertain at the institutional level, regulatory frameworks and collaborations that exists between public health institutions and national security agencies for managing health security threats from a citizenry perspective and propose a citizencentric National Health Security Preparedness and Response model to mitigate against health risks and threats.
The work is framed within a knowledge and capacity perspective than a security vulnerability perspective. The mixed methods approach which focused on the research problem, using the pluralistic methods of data collection was adopted. Data was collected using interviews and a questionnaire with Likert scale items. Purposive and convenient sampling techniques were employed in the selection of participants and data was analysed using thematic and descriptive analyses. From the analyses, Citizens perceived a strong regulatory framework and institutional collaborations to respond and manage health security threats, however surveillance and detection systems as well as early warning and counter measures against health security threats need strengthening. The major recommendations are the need for a national health security policy, capacity building (including a health security workforce) as well as the development of surge infrastructure and education.
The work is framed within a knowledge and capacity perspective than a security vulnerability perspective. The mixed methods approach which focused on the research problem, using the pluralistic methods of data collection was adopted. Data was collected using interviews and a questionnaire with Likert scale items. Purposive and convenient sampling techniques were employed in the selection of participants and data was analysed using thematic and descriptive analyses. From the analyses, Citizens perceived a strong regulatory framework and institutional collaborations to respond and manage health security threats, however surveillance and detection systems as well as early warning and counter measures against health security threats need strengthening. The major recommendations are the need for a national health security policy, capacity building (including a health security workforce) as well as the development of surge infrastructure and education.
Subject
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Business Administration
Publisher
Ghana Technology University Library
Date
July, 2018