Health literacy assessment of faith-based organizations in Accra, Ghana

Tutu, Raymond Asare; Ouassini, Anwar; Ottie-Boakye, Doris

doi:10.1080/23311886.2023.2207883

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“…Many media outlets in Ghana are owned or affiliated with politicians or political parties and tend to promote their interests and agendas (Tutu et al, 2023).…”

Section: Selective News Exposure and Political Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the tone, the traditional journalistic practice highlights an unbiased and professional delivery style, which employs quotations from news sources to serve as a credibility tool and create context and an angle (Baym 2010). On the other hand, a hybrid media message would combine hu-P. N. Amponsah, M. Okyere mor, sensationalism, or outrage with current information, which audiences would consider less news (Tutu et al, 2023).…”

Section: News-ness Concept and Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although source familiarity and reputation help audiences speed-read messages, audiences frequently consume media messages from familiar, ambiguous, and unfamiliar source situations, especially on social media sites (Dori et al, 2023). Whereas partisan sources suggest politically biased patronage and rating, legacy sources exhibit a mixed influence on news-ness (Tutu et al, 2023).…”

Section: News-ness Concept and Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, some theories of news consumption decisions reveal that many motivations shape audiences' media choices, including entertainment, ideologically driven choices, socially driven consumption, and information need (Kubin & von Sikorski, 2021). The motivations drive audiences' processing, perception and assessment (Tutu et al, 2023). Consequently, variations in audiences' evaluation of the news-ness of message content occur, especially in a hybrid media context (Tutu et al, 2023).…”

Section: News-ness Concept and Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Audiences’ Political Orientation, Evaluation and Verification of News in Ghana

Amponsah,

Okyere

2024

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Today's information ecosystem exposes audiences to multi-faceted media choices characterized by debatably partisan-oriented media. Using an audience-centered approach in a cross-sectional survey of 419 respondents, we examined audiences' partisanship and evaluation of media content from politically affiliated news sources. We also considered the types of media the audiences rate as high in news-ness as reliable news sources and their intention to verify them. Moreover, we investigated whether audiences' ratings of story types are independent of their choices of the most reliable news source. First, the findings mostly showed no significant association between audiences' political affiliations and their ratings of partisan newspaper sources. Second, audiences held television (0.095) as the most reliable news source, followed by newspapers (0.119), and web/social media sites (0.236) were the least reliable. Audience segments variedly validate news from perceived trusted sources, with the highest tendency for validation toward television messages (0.119) and the least toward newspapers (0.236). Finally, the results showed that audiences' ratings of story types are not influenced by their choice of the most reliable source.

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“…Many media outlets in Ghana are owned or affiliated with politicians or political parties and tend to promote their interests and agendas (Tutu et al, 2023).…”

Section: Selective News Exposure and Political Orientationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: News-ness Concept and Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: News-ness Concept and Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: News-ness Concept and Factorsmentioning

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Audiences’ Political Orientation, Evaluation and Verification of News in Ghana

Amponsah,

Okyere

2024

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“…The reading and re-reading of transcripts uncovered categories and associated concepts on health insurance aspects examined. Transcripts were read severally to extract participants’ perceptions about the health insurance scheme through the systematic classification process of coding and identifying themes concerning the study’s research questions [ 36 , 37 ]. Three levels of themes emerged in the data analysis; these were global themes, organizing themes and basic themes.…”

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Prevalence, perceptions and associated factors of health insurance enrollment among older persons in selected cash grant communities in Ghana: a cross-sectional mixed method

Ottie-Boakye,

Bawah,

Dodoo

et al. 2024

BMC Geriatr

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Background Universal Health Coverage has been openly recognized in the United Nations health-related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, though missing under the Millennium Development Goals. Ghana implemented the National Health Insurance Scheme programme in 2004 to improve financial access to healthcare for its citizens. This programme targeting low-income individuals and households includes an Exempt policy for older persons and indigents. Despite population ageing, evidence of the participation and perceptions of older persons in the scheme in cash grant communities is unknown. Hence, this paper examined the prevalence, perceptions and factors associated with health insurance enrollment among older persons in cash grant communities in Ghana. Methods Data were from a cross-sectional household survey of 400 older persons(60 + years) and eight FGDs between 2017 and 2018. For the survey, stratified and simple random sampling techniques were utilised in selecting participants. Purposive and stratified sampling techniques were employed in selecting the focus group discussion participants. Data analyses included descriptive, modified Poisson regression approach tested at a p-value of 0.05 and thematic analysis. Stata and Atlas-ti software were used in data management and analyses. Results The mean age was 73.7 years. 59.3% were females, 56.5% resided in rural communities, while 34.5% had no formal education. Two-thirds were into agriculture. Three-fourth had non-communicable diseases. Health insurance coverage was 60%, and mainly achieved as Exempt by age. Being a female [Adjusted Prevalence Ratio (APR) 1.29, 95%CI:1.00–1.67], having self-rated health status as bad [APR = 1.34, 95%CI:1.09–1.64] and hospital healthcare utilisation [APR = 1.49, 95%CI:1.28–1.75] were positively significantly associated with health insurance enrollment respectively. Occupation in Agriculture reduced insurance enrollment by 20.0%. Cited reasons for poor perceptions of the scheme included technological challenges and unsatisfactory services. Conclusion Health insurance enrollment among older persons in cash grant communities is still not universal. Addressing identified challenges and integrating the views of older persons into the programme have positive implications for securing universal health coverage by 2030.

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