![]() ![]() Instead of placing all their investment in hospitals, Ghana has taken health to the heart of the village. In addition to logistical challenges, there are also local cultural beliefs preventing women from seeking care, even during childbirth. While international standards suggest that the ideal ratio is one doctor per 1,000 people, in Ghana in 2017 there was only one doctor per 8,098 people, and most of these doctors lived in cities and towns. Access to electricity, mobile-cellular coverage and clean water are a challenge in rural areas. Many people live long distances from the nearest health centre. In rural areas, CHPS is often the first point of contact with government health services.Īs in many other low- and middle-income countries, Ghana experiences a great number of impediments to improving health and well-being for its citizens. But how did it come into being, and what has Ghana done differently that has made it so successful?Ĭommunity-based Health Planning and Services – more commonly referred to by its acronym, CHPS (pronounced ‘chips’) – is well known by health systems experts across the world. It’s a community-centred approach that has transformed maternal and child health in the most inaccessible parts of the country. It’s a polished gem.For over 20 years, Ghana’s CHPS programme has been the focus of the country’s primary health care strategy. “He wrote me back and said, ‘It’s not rough. “I sent the song to Bono” - a fan and friend - “and said, ‘It’s a little rough,’ ” recalls Bentley. It didn’t seem to fit with the rest of Riser, some of which addressed two recent events: the birth of his first son, Knox (he has three kids in all), and the death of his father, Leon, which Bentley wrote about in “Here on Earth.”ĭierks Bentley Leads Charity Motorcycle Ride Ahead of ACM Awards While Bentley was working on Riser, one of the best country albums of 2014 and a follow-up to the party-crazy record Home, he nearly left off “Drunk on a Plane,” which has become his best-known song. The slope of his career ascent hit a sudden drop. He returned a second time to his refuge and made a bluegrass album, Up on the Ridge, which had no fewer than zero hit singles. And Nashville was now full of guys doing songs about beer and pretty girls. Bentley was trying to become a headliner, and it wasn’t working. He and his wife, Cassidy, had a baby who was less than a year old. “Not a lot of synapses firing on this one.”ĭierks Bentley Previews Sounds of Summer Tour: ‘We Just Kind of Went There’Īround that time, he now says, “I was really burned out.” He was opening for Brad Paisley, one of several newer singers who had pushed past Bentley in their ascent. “It’s a ridiculous song,” Bentley said when this writer interviewed him that year. ![]() Plenty more beer songs followed, and in 2009, another signature hit, “Sideways,” a celebration of hanging out in bars. “I want them to cry, laugh and throw up all at once.” He quickly established himself as a first-rate singer of songs about beer, and as a wit: “Garth made fans cry and laugh at the same time,” he told CMT in 2004. “Dierks has been probably the only artist to actually outdo that first hit.” “He could’ve become a one-hit wonder,” says Luke Bryan. His passion for the era culminated in his memorable major-label debut in 2003, “What Was I Thinkin’,” a romping song with banjo and Dobro about a night of dangerous adventure with “a beauty from South Alabama,” and the first of his 13 No. And I’ve got a weird name.” (It rhymes with “jerks.”)ĭierks Bentley Toughens Up on ‘Riser’ Albumīentley began going to bluegrass shows at The Station Inn, which in turn made him excited about country music from the ’50s and ’60s. I don’t have a big belt buckle and a cowboy hat. “I didn’t see it ever working out for me. Nashville Power Players: The Billboard Cover Shootīentley moved to Nashville in that same Chevy, driving from Arizona with his dad. “We’re going to need a wheelchair to get out of here,” he groans. Soon after we sit down, complimentary orders of hush puppies and peach pie arrive. He rolls down a window - like most of the truck, the AC is busted - and drives across Nashville to a favorite lunch spot: Arnold’s, a family-run meat-and-three cafeteria where the owners greet him like a favorite cousin. ![]()
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