Author's response to reviews Title:Prevalence of Anemia among Under-5 Children in the Ghanaian Population: Estimates from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey Authors:

Prevalence of anemia among under-5 children in the Ghanaian population: estimates from the Ghana demographic and health survey

BACKGROUND Anemia in children continues to be a major public health challenge in most developing countries, particularly in Africa. Anemia in the early stages of life leads to severe negative consequences on the cognitive as well as the growth and development of children, which may persist even after treatment. We examine the prevalence of anemia in under-five children in the Ghanaian populatio...

Author's response to reviews Title:Prevalence and risk factors of superior segmental optic hypoplasia in a Korean population: the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Authors:

Operationalization of the Ghanaian Patients’ Charter in a Peri-urban Public Hospital: Voices of Healthcare Workers and Patients

Background Health is a basic human right necessary for the exercise of other human rights. Every human being is, therefore, entitled to the highest possible standard of health necessary to living a life of dignity. Establishment of patients’ Charter is a step towards protecting the rights and responsibilities of patients, but violation of patients’ rights is common in healthcare institutions, e...

Evaluation of Models to Describe Temporal Growth in Local Chickens of Ghana

The logistic, Gompertz, Richards and asymmetric logistic growth curve models were fitted to body weight data of local Ghanaian chickens and French SASSO T44 chickens. All four growth models provided good fit for each sex by genotype growth data with R2 values ranging from 86.7% to 96.7%. The rate constant parameter, k, ranged between 0.137 and 0.271 and were significantly different from zero fo...

Author's response to reviews Title:Prevalence of Malaria and Anaemia among HIV infected pregnant women receiving Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis- A cross sectional study in One District in Tanzania. Authors:

Title:Prevalence of Malaria and Anaemia among HIV infected pregnant women receiving Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis-A cross sectional study in One District in Tanzania.