This is a cross sectional study that was done to assess the health status of children (0-36 months) in Markola market in Accra. The environment in which a child grows and plays in eventually has an effect on the health of the child. Most Head potters and their children at Makola usually sleep in the open space and live...
Background: Payment methods are known to influence maternal care delivery in health systems. Ghana suspended a piloted capitation provider payment system after nearly five years of implementation. This study aimed to examine the effects of Ghana’s capitation policy on maternal health care provision as part of less...
Introduction: Road traffic injury is of great public health concern, as it stands as the eighth leading cause of death globally with the most affected being the youth aged 15-29 years. It is projected that by 2030, road traffic deaths will become the fifth leading cause of death globally unless urgent action is ta...
Introduction Hypertension has been a global public health problem. However, hypertension control is low. Regular self-monitoring of blood pressure by hypertensive patients is one sure way of improving their health. This study sought to explore their knowledge about self-monitoring, how they practice it and any bar...
Introduction: Iron is found in every living cell and is involved in various metabolic activities, including oxygen transport and storage. The adolescent age is a particularly unique period in life because of its responsibility in contributing to intense physical, psychosocial, and cognitive development. UNICEF rep...
Background: Family planning deals with the services, policies, information, attitudes, practices and commodities, including contraceptives that gives women, men, couples and adolescents the ability to avoid unintended pregnancy and choose whether to have children or not. Access to contraceptives can also be inhibi...
Background: Anaemia, defined by low blood haemoglobin concentration, is a major public health problem, especially in developing countries. Pregnant women are most vulnerable to anaemia due to factors including parasitic infection and feeding habits leading to increased maternal morbidity and mortality, as well as adver...
Background: Skilled attendance at birth is considered key to accomplishing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.1 aimed at reducing maternal mortality. Many maternal deaths can be prevented if a woman receives care by skilled health personnel. Maternal utilization of skilled health delivery services in rural areas in l...
Objectives: Define the services available for the care of breast cancer at hospitals in the Eastern Region of Ghana, identify areas of the region with limited access to care through geospatial mapping, and test a novel survey instrument in anticipation of a nationwide scale up of the study. Design: A cross-sectional, f...
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are inherently complex. This paper contributes to the literature on co-production of knowledge at the interface of science, policy, and society in integrated, transdisciplinary research (TDR) projects. By analysing five projects of the Leading Integrated Research...
Introduction: Collaborating with end-users to develop interventions tailored to fit unique circumstances is proposed as a way to improve relevance and effectiveness of an intervention. This study used a local needs driven approach to develop a health literacy intervention for caregivers in Ghana concerning management o...
Livestock ownership may influence anaemia through complex and possibly contradictory mechanisms. In this study, we aimed to determine the association of household livestock ownership with anaemia among women aged 15–49 years and children aged 6–59 months in Ghana and to examine the contribution of animal source foods (...
Health Insurance is a formal contractual arrangement between the insurer and the insured to the effect that the insurer provides cover for part or all healthcare cost of the insured as agreed between the two parties for a period of time. Ghana since 2003 has been implementing a National Health Insurance Scheme. Current...
Health care financing in Ghana has seen several changes since independence in 1957. Initially, central government used tax resource to finance all public sector health care services making it free for patients at public health care facilities. Due to economic stagnation during the early 1970s, the then government and s...
