Introduction: Road traffic injuries are the eighth leading causes of death globally, and most affected are young people aged 15-29. By 2030, road traffic deaths will become the fifth leading cause of death unless urgent action is taken. Lack of employment has...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are about 350 million people suffering from diabetes mellitus (DM) and by 2030, diabetes will become the seventh leading cause of death worldwide with diabetes deaths expected to increase by 50% during the...

Adolescence (from 10 to 19 years of age) is an integral stage of human life, which transits a person from childhood into adulthood. During this phase, the individual may portray certain individual traits of adulthood whiles still a child hence exposing them to...

Infertility is the inability of a couple to conceive after one year of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. The study was carried out in the La Nkwantanang district in the Greater Accra region of Ghana on the knowledge and perception about female infertilit...

Globally, induced abortion remains a dire public health concern, particularly in developing countries where abortion-related complications are recorded annually. There has been little research done in Ghana to answer the question as to what factors influence t...

Physical inactivity and unhealthy eating are two leading behavioral risk factors contributing to preventable non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Evidence-based interventions (EBI) using community-engaged approaches to address these risks abound in high-income co...

Introduction: Self-medication is often defined as using drugs to self-treat a common health problem without the advice of a medical practitioner. Self-medication is recurrent in both advanced and developing countries but excessive in developing countries. Many...

Universally, work-related illness and injury continue to be of great concern because it is the principal cause of surge in work productivity. It is estimated to cost nearly 2.8 trillion USD (4%) of annual GDP due to sickness absence, lost workday, worker’s com...

Introduction: In spite of the national target of achieving at least an 80% skilled delivery, skilled health providers attended to just 56.2% of deliveries in 2016 according to the Ghana Health Service annual report. The highest proportion of ANC registrants in...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide for women after breast cancer. Every year, around 494,000 females develop cervical cancer globally and almost 49.5% (233,000) die from the disease annually with about 80% (376,000) of such deaths occur...