Background: Healthcare systems in developing countries face challenges in maintaining quality care, with Ghana presenting a mixed picture of progress and healthcare challenges. Despite global initiatives to strengthen human resources, evidence suggests that increasing skilled health workers correlates with improved hea...
Background: Despite progress in maternal healthcare in Ghana, maternal mortality remains a significant public health concern, particularly in underserved districts. In the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region, limited research exists on ANC and delivery services utilisation and what factors shape their healthc...
Background: Persons living with albinism (PLWA) in Ghana face complex challenges that go beyond genetic and medical vulnerabilities. Despite efforts by non-governmental organizations such as Engage Now Africa (ENA) to improve their quality of life through targeted interventions, little is known about how these initiati...
Background: Assessing paediatric admissions and outcomes is essential for understanding disease burden and identifying causes of mortality. This study aimed to document paediatric admissions' morbidity patterns and outcomes at the Ho Teaching Hospital in the Volta Region, Ghana. Methodology: This retrospective descript...
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...
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: Myopia (short-sightedness) is recognized as significant global health and socioeconomic problem that will affect billions of people in the subsequent decades. The increasing prevalence of myopia has huge social and educational consequences on society. Myopia exists expansively among students and affects not...
International experience reveals that food policy development often occurs in silos and offers few tangible mechanisms to address the interlinked, systemic issues underpinning food and nutrition insecurity. This paper investigated what South African government policies cover in terms of different aspects of the food sy...
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...
Background: The epidemiological transition, touted as occurring in Ghana, requires research that tracks the changing patterns of diseases in order to capture the trend and improve healthcare delivery. This study examines national trends in mortality rate and cause of death at health facilities in Ghana between 2014 and...
Background: 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 (4%) of annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) due to sickness absence, lost workday, worker's compensation and daily produc...
Introduction: Diabetes prevalence has been rising more rapidly in the middle- and low-income countries. The leading causes of blindness secondary to diabetes are diabetic retinopathy, cataracts, and glaucoma. A cross‑ sectional survey was carried out to assess the knowledge level of diabetic patients on diabetes and it...
Background and objective: The World Health Organization recommends three strategies for infant feeding: putting new born babies to breast within 30 minutes after birth, exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months of life, and appropriate complementary feeding from 6 to 24 months of age with continued breast br...
Introduction Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major cause of acute illness, infertility, long-term disability and death with serious medical and psychological consequences of millions of men, women and infants. Correct and consistent use of male condom remains the most effective way to reduce STIs including...
