Assessing housing accommodation challenges of health workers in Ghana: A case of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.
| dc.contributor.author | Amoateng, Randy | |
| dc.contributor.author | ||
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-16T14:17:48Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-19T03:29:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-16T14:17:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-19T03:29:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-06-16 | |
| dc.description | A 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 in Project Management. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The rationale for government intervention in the housing market, as can be gleaned from policy documents, revolves around the goal of providing all Ghanaians with a decent house in a suitable living environment. The importance of housing can hardly be exaggerated. In human terms, access to satisfactory or proper housing is vital to health, happiness and civilized living. Nonetheless, there are great many challenges in securing housing accommodation that meet the required standards - accessibility, proximity to services and availability of infrastructure, and security of tenure. The study assessed housing accommodation challenges of health workers in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. The issues the study focused on were the current state of housing accommodation, challenges faced by health workers in securing housing accommodation and solutions to curb the challenges. The study used Ninety (90) health workers at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospitals in Kumasi. The instrument for the data collection was developed by the researcher, preceded by a pilot study. The pilot study was initially conducted in a similar teaching hospital in an urban town to ascertain its validity and the reliability. The data for the study was basically from primary source in that closed-ended questionnaire was designed and distributed to health workers in Kumasi. The data generated was analyzed using the mean score ranking. Descriptive statistics was used to test the data. The study concluded that currently housing accommodation lacks security of tenure, accessibility and proximity to services and availability of infrastructure. It was clear that health workers face great housing accommodation challenges and that the greatest challenge faced by health workers is cost of rent, specifically high demand for housing accommodation leading to exorbitant rent prices. It is therefore recommended that government increase salaries of health workers. This increase in salaries will beef up the rent and transportation cost and again help health workers secure quality housing accommodation that meet the required standards of security of tenure, accessibility and proximity to services and availability of infrastructure. Again, health policy must document strategic policy areas of building housing accommodation for health workers focusing on increasing accommodation facilities in the urban towns that are closer to health centers and hospitals | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | KNUST | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.knust.edu.gh/handle/123456789/13964 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Challenges | en_US |
| dc.subject | Honusing Accommodatio | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessing housing accommodation challenges of health workers in Ghana: A case of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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