More than a decade ago, Galea posed the question “Can we improve mental health if we improve cities?”4. In the past two centuries, urbanization has shaped landscapes and lives, making it the “sentinel demographic shift” of our times4. The relationships between mental health status and the...
Consumption of alcohol is associated with acute and chronic adverse health outcomes. There is a paucity of studies that explore the determinants of alcohol use among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa and, in particular, that examine the effects of adverse childhood experiences on alcohol use. Methods...
BMC Public Health (2020) 20:825 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08949-2 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access Poor mental health of livestock farmers in Africa: a mixed methods case study from Ghana Francis Sena Nuvey1,2* , Katharina Kreppel3, Priscilla Awo Nortey1, Adolphina Addo-Lartey1, ...
Policies generate accountability in that they offer a standard against which government performance can be assessed. A central question of this study is wh