Demographic and health surveyThe majority of young mothers in Ghana gave birth in a health facility. The likelihood of delivering in a health facility was influenced by socio-demographic factors, economic factors and utilization of antenatal care services. Therefore, interventions aimed at increasing ...
Ghana Health Service (GHS), ICF International: Ghana demographic and health survey 2014. Maryland: GSS, GHS, and ICF International;: Rockville; 2015. Google Scholar Roman Lay AA, Fujimori E, Simões Duarte L, Vilela Borges AL. Prevalence and correlates of early sexual initiation among ...
Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2014. Rockville, Maryland: GSS, GHS, and ICF International; 2015. Google Scholar Hasan M, Sutradhar I, Akter T, Gupta RD, Joshi H, Haider MR, et al. Prevalence and determinants of hypertension among adult population in Nepal: Data from Nepal Demographic ...
Methods:We pooled secondary data from the 2003, 2008 and 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (GDHS). Analytic sample of 1422 males aged 15-24years who are sexually active and never married were used for the study. The outcome variable for the study was two or more sexual partners in...
Data on haemoglobin (Hb) concentration (anaemia) among children aged 6–59 months from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (GDHS)10,24were used in the analysis. The DHS surveys are designed to be representative at the national, regional and rural-urban levels10. The GDHS employed a...
To examine the relationship between National Health Insurance and maternal healthcare utilisation across three main wealth quintiles (Poor, Middle and Rich). The study employed data from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. Both descriptive analysis and binary logistic regression were conducted....
G.H.S. GSS, &ICF International Ghana demographic and health survey 2014 (2014) Retrieved from https://dhsprogram.com/pubs/pdf/FR307/FR307.pdf, Accessed 1st Feb 2021 Google Scholar Gupta et al., 2019 N. Gupta, K.K. Yadav, V. Kumar, S. Kumar, R.P. Chadd, A. Kumar Trace elemen...
In a Ghana Demographic Health Survey (GDHS) report, malaria infection is said to range from 11.2% to 40.0% among Ghanaians hence rendering the country’s malaria situation highly endemic [14]. High malaria burden similar to the results of our study has been reported in other African countries...
The QualityRights e-training programme is effective in changing people’s (especially healthcare professionals’) attitudes towards people with mental health conditions and psychosocial, intellectual, or cognitive disabilities: this is a step towards mental healthcare being more with human rights-based wo...
Data from the 2022 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey [GDHS] showed that 54% of women and 24% of men aged 15–49 years had ever tested for HIV and received their results. Out of this, the uptake of HTC among those aged 15–24 was 27.8% for females and 8.3% for males [8]. Also...