About the ministry
The Ministry of Health works to improve the health of everyone living in Ghana, towards the government's goal of universal health coverage and a healthy population.
Working with its agencies and partners, the ministry aims to build the country's human capital, creating wealth through health, by developing and carrying out policies that improve health and vitality.
Vision and mission
- Vision
- A healthy population for national development.
- Mission
- To contribute to the country's development, and to a local health industry, by promoting health and vitality through access to quality health care for everyone living in Ghana, delivered by motivated staff.
- Policy thrust
- To reduce inequities in access to care and to raise the coverage, quality and use of health services, towards a healthier population.
Goal
To improve the health of everyone living in Ghana through policy, the mobilisation of resources, and the monitoring and regulation of the care that the health agencies deliver.
Policy objectives
- Universal access to better and more efficiently managed health services.
- Fewer avoidable deaths and disabilities among mothers, adolescents and children.
- Better access to responsive clinical and public health emergency services.
What the headquarters does
- Sets the overall policy direction for everyone involved in delivering health care.
- Advocates for action on health across other sectors.
- Mobilises resources and allocates them to all providers of health services.
- Provides the information needed to coordinate and manage health services.
- Sets the regulatory framework for all providers of health services.
- Monitors and evaluates health services in Ghana.