District health management & its association with health system performance in the eastern region of Ghana

PERFORM2Scale PhD candidate, Anne Christine Stender Heerdegen of Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, successfully defends her doctorate in this presentation.

The thesis focuses on district health management and its association with health system performance in the eastern region of Ghana.

There's more on this work in two papers co-published by Dr Heerdegen:

• How Does District Health Management Emerge Within a Complex Health System? Insights for Capacity Strengthening in Ghana 
• Managerial capacity among district health managers & association with performance: A comparative descriptive study of six districts in the Eastern Region of Ghana