Assessing the major factors causing housing deficit in Ghana health service (a case study of Western Region)

dc.contributor.authorHormenoo, Agbeko Harley
dc.contributor.author
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-22T12:41:45Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-19T03:44:11Z
dc.date.available2021-06-22T12:41:45Z
dc.date.available2023-04-19T03:44:11Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-22
dc.descriptionA thesis submitted to the Department of Construction Technology and Management, College of Art and Built Environment, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the Degree of Master of Science.en_US
dc.description.abstractAcross the world and especially in the developing world, housing remains one of the critical development challenges because of the huge gap between the supply and demand for housing. This study explored the challenges facing housing delivering for health sector in Ghana. The study was carried out along the tenets of a preliminary literature review and followed by a survey using a structured questionnaire. Seventy-Five (75) questionnaire were distributed by simple random sampling, and 44 completed questionnaires were considered valid for the analysis. The data collected were analysed using Mean score ranking. The study reveals that, Lack of comprehensive national policy and regulatory framework for housing provision, Failure of MMDAS to provide housing for health institutions, Lack of institutional and regulatory framework in MMDAS for housing, Lack of stakeholder’s support and community participation and Lack of continuity due to consistent change of government are the major critical factors causing housing deficit. Considering the challenges in order of extremity, respondents indicated that, High competition in rental charges, Difficulties in responding to on call duties/emergency cases, Payment of high utility bills due to landlords/ladies failure to pay their part, Unnecessary threat by the Landlords/ladies and High transportation cost are the challenges faced by the staff of GHS in assessing alternative housing. Further, a number of strategies to improve housing delivery were suggested which includes; Government should partner with NGOs to provide housing for all health facilities, use public- private partnership initiative (PPP), Five percent (5%) of health facilities internally generated fund (IGF) should be set aside for housing development, Government of Ghana should re-establish Bank for housing and construction to provide support foren_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKNUSTen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/14066
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectHousing, Developmenten_US
dc.subjectNational Policyen_US
dc.subjectGovernmenten_US
dc.subjectStakeholdersen_US
dc.titleAssessing the major factors causing housing deficit in Ghana health service (a case study of Western Region)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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