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...

Ibrahim Osman Adam University of Development Studies Ghana [email protected] Abstract: The purpose of the study is to investigate the nature of cloud computing adoption across different industries of Ghanaian organizations with the view of providing adoption trends and patterns for policy direction, practice and future research. A quantitative research approach consisting a survey of 305 Ghanai...

OBJECTIVE To assess the differences in tuberculosis (TB) treatment success between Hunan and Eastern Ghana. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study was a retrospective comparative study using 2005-2006 surveillance data from the Hunan province of China and the Eastern region of Ghana. Data analyzed were from the provincial/regional capital and a randomly selected city of lower economic status. χ(2) te...

The National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme was introduced in Ghana in 2004 as a pro-poor financing strategy aimed at removing financial barriers to health care and protecting all citizens from catastrophic health expenditures, which currently arise due to user fees and other direct payments. A comprehensive assessment of the financing and benefit incidence of health services in Ghana was undert...

Myiasis is the infestation of tissues of live vertebrate animals and humans with dipterous larvae. In sub-Saharan Africa, Cordylobia anthropohaga and Cordylobia rodhaini are known to be responsible for cutaneous myiasis in animals and humans. Human cases of myiasis, purportedly acquired in Ghana but diagnosed in other countries, have been reported; however, published data on its occurrence in a...

BACKGROUND Identity registration is not only a matter of human rights but it also serves as an important instrument for planning about health, education and overall development. This paper examines the chances of a child born in Ghana between 2001 and 2006 obtaining legal status of identity. METHODS Data for this paper were extracted from the 2006 Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS...

The study of cause of death certification remains a largely neglected field in many developing countries, including Ghana. Yet, mortality information is crucial for establishing mortality patterns over time and for estimating mortality attributed to specific causes. In Ghana, autopsies remain the appropriate option for determining the cause of deaths occurring in homes and those occurring withi...

AIM This is a story intended to motivate the reader to become immersed in 'verbal snapshots' depicting the reality of nursing in Ghana as experienced by the writer. Its purpose is to encourage dialogue and creative collaboration between nurse educators in radically different settings, which would serve to enrich all those involved. BACKGROUND During the summer of 2003, a faculty member from t...

BACKGROUND For migrant populations from sub-Saharan Africa, adverse cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors have been observed to be higher than found in their home country-based counterparts or among the host populations in high-income countries. Differences in absolute overall CVD risk, however, remain largely unexplained. We, therefore, predicted the differences in 10-year CVD risk among s...

*Corresponding author: Ebenezer Bonyah, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Kumasi Polytechnic, Kumasi, Ghana. Tel: +233 2433 57651 E-mail: [email protected] Foundation Project: Supported by the Government of Ghana Annual University Lecturers Research Grant (Grant No. 02/2016). The journal implements double-blind peer review practiced by specially invited international editorial board mem...