deforestation is caused by lack of alternative economic livelihood in the forest communities where the forest serves as a sole source of food, income and employment.The study was conducted in Sissala West District of Ghana, to find out the perceptions of causes of deforestation in the district....
Despite substantial declines since 2000, lower respiratory infections (LRIs), diarrhoeal diseases, and malaria remain among the leading causes of nonfatal and fatal disease burden for children under 5 years of age (under 5), primarily in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The spatial burden of each of...
In this chapter, we examine the causes and consequences of child labor. Working children usually come from low-income families and, among other possible outcomes, there is a high risk that they will drop out of compulsory education. The most relevant and
Urbanization is the shift from a rural to an urban society, bringing a large concentration of people into towns and cities. This process usually occurs when a nation is still developing. The trend toward urbanization is a worldwide phenomena.
[1] noted delays in road construction in Zambia of around 227 percent of the initial timeline while in Ghana delays had climbed to 240 percent [2]. Con- sidering road projects, especially mainly new ones can comprise a major portion of national investment budgets; considerable delays may ...
Soil quality in active mining sites in Ghana significantly exceeded all limits by 71 mg/kg and the inhabited areas near the mine site exceeded the EU by 2.7 mg/kg [125]. The transportation of Hg species into food through water or soil will influence food quality. Rice fields that are...
Over 80% of perinatal mortality in Japan is due to stillbirths after 22 weeks of gestation, with one in 300 families experiencing fetal loss every year. This study aimed to assess causes and risk factors for singleton stillbirth in Japan. A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using...
Historically, overhunting is the cause of the extinction of giant lemurs and elephant birds in Madagascar, Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey in Ghana, moas in New Zealand, Alagoas curassow in north-eastern Brazil, and giant kangaroos in Australia. ...
(such as Yasmin) in order to even out your body’s hormones. I have found in females, switching to an estrogen dominant birth control pill is one of the easiest, fastest ways to clear the skin. (WARNING: do not take a progesterone dominant birth control pill, as it will likely make ...
Seven limitations of indirect methods to estimate COD In 1981, the Ghana Health Assessment Team [24] advanced the concept of measuring burden of disease by combining loss of useful life through premature death with the loss of useful life due to disability. This spurred further work, most notabl...