chronic diseasesI11 and I13This paper examines the effect of national health insurance on the choice of healthcare facility among diabetic and hypertensive patients in Ghana. The data for this paper came from a secondary source, and the conditional mixed processing approach was utilised to ...
26.60% had one chronic disease, and 55.24% had two or more chronic diseases. In addition, 33.90% had a tendency toward depression, 30.21% had moderate to severe pain, and 74.06% of the people with pain took measures to relieve pain. The incidence of depression was related to sex, age...
Lowered Serum Triglyceride Levels among Chronic Hepatitis B-Infected Patients in GhanaDyslipidemia is a common finding in most studies of liver diseases. Little is however known about the effect of the two pathological stages of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection – chronicsymptomatic and asymptomatic...
Morbidity and mortality rates from chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) are increasing globally. In Ghana, CNCDs account for 43% of all deaths. We examined the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and associated factors among adults living with CNCDs in the Ho Municipality. Methods This...
Non-communicable diseases. https://www.who.int/health-topics/noncommunicable-diseases#tab=tab_1 (2022). Hsu, C. Y. et al. The risk of acute renal failure in patients with chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 74, 101–107 (2008). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Coca,...
Lay Representations of Chronic Diseases in Ghana: Implications for Primary Prevention Understanding how individuals make sense of health, illness and chronic illnesses is an important first step to developing practical interventions. Six focus ... ADG Aikins,A Anum,C Agyemang,... - 《Ghana Med J...
We found that under the strategy of separate treatment, improving the healthcare accessibility, drug supply, and lowering the cost of medical care would have a positive impact on increasing the preference of patients with chronic diseases to go to the primary hospitals. Under the two-way triage ...
In sub-Saharan Africa, CKD is a substantial health burden with risk factors that include communicable and non-communicable diseases. However, poor data quality limits inferences and draws attention to the need for more information and validated measures of kidney function especially in the context of...
Economic transformation in Ghana In the context of the Ghanaian government's objective of structural transformation with an emphasis on manufacturing, this paper provides a case study of e... S Kolavalli 被引量: 22发表: 2012年 Moveable console for holding an image acquisition or medical device,...
chronic disease interventions in Ghana and Cameroon. Regional and international reviews are offered on cardiovascular risk in Africa, comorbidity between infectious and chronic diseases and cardiovascular disease, diabetes and established risk factors among populations of sub-Saharan African descent in Europe...