Challenges and experiences in linking community level reported out-of-pocket health expenditures to health provider recorded health expenditures: Experience from the iHOPE project in Northern Ghana

• Isaiah Awintuen Agorinya ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: iagorinya@gmail.com

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, INDEPTH-Network Secretariat, Accra, Ghana, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6194-2021

  ⨯
• Maxwell Dalaba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana, Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana

  ⨯
• Nathan Kumasenu Mensah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana

  ⨯
• Samuel Tamti Chatio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Ghana, School of Public Health, Legon, Accra, Ghana

  ⨯
• Lan My Le,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, INDEPTH-Network Secretariat, Accra, Ghana, FilaBavi Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Hanoi, Vietnam

  ⨯
• Yadeta Dassie Bacha,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, College of Health and Medical Sciences, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia

  ⨯
• Jemima Sumboh,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana

  ⨯
• Gabriela Flores,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

  ⨯
• Tessa Tan-torres Edejer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

  ⨯
• Amanda Ross,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  ⨯
• Fabrizio Tediosi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  ⨯
• James Akazili

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations INDEPTH-Network Secretariat, Accra, Ghana, Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana

  ⨯