Traditional leadership system among ethnic groups in Ghana is one of the revered customary legacies that survived and retained the essential elements of authority and respect among the people. Its role is to provide adjudication, social cohesion and economic promotion among the people. This study ...
13 For most Nigerians, urban existenceis synonymous withextreme individual and community poverty.Implicit in this is a great pressure on mothers (倒装句)to spend more time trying toaugment(v.增加)the family income at the expense of caring adequately for their children. There is good evidence fr...
Findings indicated regional and district-level disparities in sanitation access among older adults in Ghana. Individual-level factors such as sex, age, marital status, education, rural residence, religion, ownership of household assets, and disabilities significantly influence sanitation access. Specifically...
In particular, the role of the Hospital Social Service is to provide counselling and psychosocial support, facilitate communication between medical staff and patients, especially those with low socioeconomic status, and advocate for these patients with the country’s medical and social welfare bureaucraci...
Although low socioeconomic status (SES) is related to poor glycemic control, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We examined potentially modifiable factors involved in the association between low SES and poor glycemic control using data from the baseline survey of a multicenter, prospective cohort...
Kablan, E. Danquah (Department of Wildlife and Range Management, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana), A. Samuel and the Conservation Through Public Health Conservation Through Public Health. We also would like to thank A. ...
In Africa, consumption of bats has been recorded in west African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Côte D’ivoire. In Nigeria, bats form an important source of protein across different communities [22, 28]. Here bats are hunted and consumed. Similar ...
Populations with low socioeconomic status have been largely demonstrated to be associated with the burdens of many infectious diseases [25, 44, 45]. In the DRC, many individuals consume bushmeat owing to poverty [25], which increases the risk of zoonotic diseases like mpox. However, most of...
"Looking at the new per capita income, Ghana has retained its status as a lower middle income country," Magnus Ebo Duncan, Senior fellow at the economic think tank Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), commented in an interview with Xinhua....
Impact of socioeconomic status and medical conditions on health and healthcare utilization among aging Ghanaians Article Open access 20 March 2015 Examining health determinants and outcomes of older adults across Ghana’s North–South divide Article 09 December 2024 Notes UD$1.00 ~ GH¢4.20 ...