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Open AccessUnravelling the Belgian cascade of hypertension care and its determinants: insights from a cross-sectional analysis
Hypertension is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality worldwide. Despite the widespread availability of effective antihypertensives, blood pressure (BP) control rates remain su...
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Open AccessPREvalence Study on Surgical COnditions (PRESSCO) 2020: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Countrywide Survey on Surgical Conditions in Post-Ebola Outbreak Sierra Leone
Understanding the burden of diseases requiring surgical care at national levels is essential to advance universal health coverage. The PREvalence Study on Surgical COnditions (PRESSCO) 2020 is a cross-sectiona...
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Open AccessDifferential associations between psychosocial stress and obesity among Ghanaians in Europe and in Ghana: findings from the RODAM study
Psychosocial stress is associated with obesity in some populations, but it is unclear whether the association is related to migration. This study explored associations between psychosocial stress and obesity a...
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Open AccessEarly-life factors are associated with waist circumference and type 2 diabetes among Ghanaian adults: The RODAM Study
Early-life experiences may fuel the emergence of obesity and type 2 diabetes among African populations. We evaluated childhood socio-economic status (SES) and childhood nutritional status as risk factors for i...
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Open AccessEquity in maternal health outcomes in a middle-income urban setting: a cohort study
Low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with more adverse perinatal health outcomes, risk factors and lower access to and use of maternal health care services. However, evidence for the association betwee...
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Open AccessAccess and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the forest belt of Ghana
Poor maternal health delivery in develo** countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within a few weeks of delivery. This is partly due to unavailability an...
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Open AccessFood variety, dietary diversity, and type 2 diabetes in a multi-center cross-sectional study among Ghanaian migrants in Europe and their compatriots in Ghana: the RODAM study
The importance of dietary diversification for type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk remains controversial. We investigated associations of between- and within-food group variety with T2D, and the role of dietary diversif...
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Open AccessIntegrating herbal medicine into mainstream healthcare in Ghana: clients’ acceptability, perceptions and disclosure of use
Although there are current efforts to integrate herbal medicine (HM) into mainstream healthcare in Ghana, there is paucity of empirical evidence on the acceptability and concurrent use of HM, in the formal hea...
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Open AccessOverweight and obesity epidemic in Ghana—a systematic review and meta-analysis
In many low and middle income countries (LMICs), the distribution of adulthood nutritional imbalance is shifting from a predominance of undernutrition to overnutrition. This complex problem poses a huge challe...
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Open AccessIncentives to yield to Obstetric Referrals in deprived areas of Amansie West district in the Ashanti Region, Ghana
Obstetric referrals, otherwise known as maternal referrals constitute an eminent component of emergency care, and key to ensuring safe delivery and reducing maternal and child mortalities. The efficiency of Ob...
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Open AccessHealth service barriers to HIV testing and counseling among pregnant women attending Antenatal Clinic; a cross-sectional study
HIV testing and counseling (HTC) remains critical in the global efforts to reach a goal of universal access to prevention and timely human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment and health care. Routine HIV te...
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Open AccessKnowledge, perceptions and expectations of capitation payment system in a health insurance setting: a repeated survey of clients and health providers in Kumasi, Ghana
Health insurance is improving access to quality health care in Ghana. However, there are implementation challenges which call for reform of the current health insurance system. There is no doubt that reforming...
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Open AccessHealth insurance in Ghana: evaluation of policy holders’ perceptions and factors influencing policy renewal in the Volta region
Health insurance is an important mechanism that succors individuals, states and the nation at large. The purpose of this study was to assess individual’s attitude towards health insurance policy and the factor...
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Open AccessKnowledge, perception about antiretroviral therapy (ART) and prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) and adherence to ART among HIV positive women in the Ashanti Region, Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT) has been identified as the greatest means of HIV infection among children. Adherence to antiretroviral drugs is necessary to prevent drug resistance and MTCT of HIV among HI...
