Eugenia Amporfu
The researcher has focused on several key areas within healthcare and health economics, exploring equity and quality in healthcare services across diverse domains such as vaccine coverage, maternal and child health care, and patient satisfaction. Their work particularly emphasizes the impact of public and external financial expenditure on healthcare costs. They examined the institutional factors influencing healthcare spending in Ghana, including capitation payment systems and user fees, as well as the gendered distribution of work roles and household responsibilities in both individual and broader contexts.
Faculty Biography
Sr. Eugenia Amporfu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, KNUST. She holds a PhD in Economics from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada She teaches Health Economics, Econometrics, and Advanced Microeconomics both at the graduate and undergradute levels. She has also taught a graduate course in Macroeconomics. Her areas of research broadly covers Health Economics and has peer reviewed theoretical and empirical research articles. Her research interests in Health Economics includes Strategic Purchasing focusing on healthcare financing and physician reimbursement, Equity, and Policy Evaluation. She has also done some research in maternal health, health system strengthening, and healthcare utilzation. She has also done some research on Gender Issues, demographic dividend using the National Transfer Accounts approach. Her research has now extended into Economic Growth and Finance. She is currently working on 1) marternal care utilization in Ghana and india, 2) Mobile phone and enrolment in the National Health Insurance 3) Effect of Monetary Policy on Ouput and Prices in Ghana; among others.She has served as a consultant for organizations such as UNFPA, Results for Development, Contracta UK Ltd, African Health Economics Association, among others.
Economic Growth and Productivity
Employment and Welfare Studies
Energy and Environment Impacts
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Global Health Care Issues
Global Maternal and Child Health
Healthcare Policy and Management
Healthcare Systems and Reforms
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
Socioeconomics of Resources and Conservation
Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Impact of Delayed Desired Job Employment of Trained Nurses on Job Satisfaction in Ghana
Open AccessEffect of capitation payment method on health outcomes, healthcare utilization, and referrals in Ghana
Open AccessPricing of Climate Risks in the Capital Market of South Africa
Editorial: Towards equitable health systems for universal health coverage (UHC) in sub-Saharan Africa
Open AccessBilling the Insured: An Assessment of Out-of-Pocket Payment by Insured Patients in Ghana
Open AccessEffect of energy shortages on institutional delivery in India
Open AccessEffects of public and external health spending on out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa
Applying the Strategic Health Purchasing Progress Tracking Framework: Lessons from Nine African Countries
Open AccessStrategic Health Purchasing Progress Mapping: A Spotlight on Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme
Open AccessEquity in the Perceived Quality of Care Received by Malaria Patients Under National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana
Open AccessEffect of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme on exit time from catastrophic healthcare expenditure
Understanding the demographic dividend in Ghana, Sierra Leone and The Gambia: Prospects or missed opportunities?
Open AccessAssociation between Healthcare Provider Payment Systems and Health Outcomes in Ghana
COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: impacts on vulnerable populations and sustaining home-grown solutions
Open AccessMeasuring and explaining changing patterns of inequality in institutional deliveries between urban and rural women in Ghana: a decomposition analysis
Open AccessDeterminants of paying national health insurance premium with mobile phone in Ghana: a cross-sectional prospective study
Open AccessThe Distribution of Paid and Unpaid Work among Men and Women in Ghana: The National Time Transfer Accounts Approach
Do Economic Policy Decisions affect Stock Market Development in Ghana?
Open AccessThe Distribution of Housework among men and women in Ghana: The National Time Transfer Accounts Approach
Open AccessThe role of institutions on the effectiveness of malaria treatment in the Ghanaian health sector
Open AccessA theoretical analysis of how user fee on healthcare can waste economic resources
Open AccessIs low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption
Open AccessEffect of regulated user fee on quality of healthcare for the poor and the non-poor
Effect of Institutional Factors on the Quality of Ghana's Healthcare Delivery
EQUITY ANALYSIS OF QUALITY MALARIA TREATMENT IN GHANA
TESTING FOR MORAL HAZARD IN CAESAREAN SECTION IN THE GHANAIAN NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME; AN APPROACH USING MATCHING ESTIMATION
Open AccessEffect of Institutional Factors on Quality of Care in Ghanaian Health Care Sector
Equity of the premium of the Ghanaian national health insurance scheme and the implications for achieving universal coverage
Open AccessThe Role of Institutions on the Effectiveness of Treatment in the Ghanaian Health Sector
Open AccessEFFECT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTHCARE UTILIZATION AND PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS ON THE GHANAIAN NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME. THE CASE OF MALARIA IN A RURAL DISTRICT HOSPITAL
Open AccessPrivate hospital accreditation and inducement of care under the ghanaian national insurance scheme
Open AccessIncentive Effects of Government Mandated Cost Shifting
Open AccessEstimating the effect of early discharge policy on readmission rate. An instrumental variable approach
Open AccessEffect of user fee on patient’s welfare and efficiency in a two tier health care market
Open AccessThe Gap between the Health Status of Rural and Urban Women in Ghana: A Case Study of Patients at a Mission Hospital in the Ashanti Region
Quality Effect of Early Discharge of Maternity Patients: Does Hospital Specialization Matter?
Differences in the Quality of Care and Resulting Outcomes in Childbirth between Family Physicians and Obstetricians: Comparison of a Matched Cohort
Open AccessThree essays in health economics
Department of Economics
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology