Background In this digital age, the youth in Ghana extensively rely on various internet-connected devices to access social media platforms. The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of social media use on adolescent mental health and well-being, identify protective factors, and propose evidence-based interven...
Background: Adolescence is a critical developmental stage marked by heightened vulnerability to peer pressure. With the rapid growth of digital technology, social media has become an integral part of adolescent life, offering both opportunities and risks. While global evidence links social media use to depression, anxi...
Background: Teenagers are using social media at a much higher rate than they were a few years ago. This has raised concerns about the impact on the mental health of high school students. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of social media on mental health because they are at a crucial stage...
Globally, the informal food sector has been the recipient of exclusionary urban policies, despite its dominant role in urban life. This study examined the contributions of the informal food sector to food flows during the COVID-19 lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa. An ethnographic research method consisting of in-dep...
Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 was declared a pandemic in March 2020. Vaccination is an important tool in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As vaccines for COVID-19 have been developed and deployed, one of the questions being asked is what determines its acceptance by the people in relation to past v...
INTRODUCTION Schistosomiasis is the second most important parasitic disease after malaria. The construction of the Akosombo Dam in Ghana resulted in an increase in cases of schistosomias in communities in the Lake Volta Basin, including the Oti sub-district of the Krachi East District of the Volta Region. Repeated mass...
The primary purpose of this study is to identify predictors of complete household enrollment into the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) among inhabitants of the Barekese sub-district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Heads of households in 20 communities from the Barekuma Collaborative Community Project site were i...
