Ageing, urban marginality, and health in Ghana
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Informing evidence-based policies for ageing and health in Ghana
PROBLEM Ghana's population is ageing. In 2011, the Government of Ghana requested technical support from the World Health Organization (WHO) to help revise national policies on ageing and health. APPROACH We applied WHO's knowledge translation framework on ageing and health to assist evidence based policy-making in Ghana. First, we defined priority problems and health system responses by perfo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Alberta Academic Review
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2561-5335,2561-5327
DOI: 10.29173/aar102