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Table 2 Themes emerging from the analysis

From: In search of universal health coverage – highlighting the accessibility of health care to students with disabilities in Ghana: a qualitative study

Global themes

Organizing themes

Basic themes

Codes

Theme 1: Accessibility of health care

Physical environment of health facilities

Unfriendly physical environment

• Poor road network

• Poor hospital environment

Physical structure of health facilities

Inaccessible physical structure

• Hospital doors

• Hospital building

• Overcrowded tables and chairs

• Medical tables and chairs

• Staircases

• Walkways

• Unreachable consulting rooms

• Malfunctioning lift

Equipment and logistics

• Inaccessible equipment and logistics

• Directional signs

• No tactile or braille

 

• Available equipment and logistics

• Limited medical equipment

Theme 2: Adequacy of health care

Support services

• Limited Support services

• No support services

• Limited preferential treatment

Availability of sign language interpreters

• Lack of sign language interpreters

• No sign language interpreters

• Communication difficulties

• No knowledge of sign language

• Miscommunication

 

• Limited Sign language support

• School-mothers ability to sign

Theme 3: Affordability of health care

Source of financing health care

• Unreliable financing sources

• Personal funds

• Family members

• Individual supports

• School authority

• Social welfare services

• National Health Insurance Scheme

Challenges in financing health care for students with disabilities

• Setbacks in health financing care

• Difficulty in obtaining consultation records

• Limited benefit coverage of NHIS

• Less expensive drug