Making community-based health planning and services work: Staffing, accountability and digital integration for quality primary health care in Northern Ghana

• Dennis Chirawurah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental and occupational health, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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• Felix Achana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Navrongo, Ghana

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• Abdou Orou-Seko,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Environmental and occupational health, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Research Laboratory in Aquaculture and Aquatic Ecotoxicology, University of Parakou, Parakou, Benin

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• Joyce Aputere Ndago ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joyce Aputere Ndago, Colette Santah

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Social and Behavioral Change, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon

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• Colette Santah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joyce Aputere Ndago, Colette Santah

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Change, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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• Vida Nyagre Yakong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Health Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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• Stephen Apanga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

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• Martin Nyaaba Adokiya

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mnyaaba11@uds.edu.gh

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0167-5512

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