ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION: Anaemia in pregnant women is a common global phenomenon. It is endemic in developing countries and often results in complications for both the mother and the foetus (born or unborn). Neonates born to iron-deficient mothers are more susceptible to anaemia, are low birthweight or preterm and have higher mortality. WHO estimates showed that Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of 57.1%. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence and assess the fact...
ABSTRACT Background: The healthcare industry serves as one of the main sectors for national development in every country as it is central to the happiness and the wellbeing of the population (WHO, 2008) . Job satisfaction as explained by (Spector, 2008) as the level to which employees like the work they do, is of more importance in the health sector as it affects the delivery of services among nurses positively or negatively (Ahmad et al., 2017) . This study examined the role of nurse manage...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Violence against women is considered a violation of their basic human rights. WHO reports that at least one in three women have experienced some form of physical or sexual abuse at some point in their lifetime. Civil society and governments around the world have acknowledged violence against women as a major obstacle to development. It has a major impact on the health status of the woman leading to low productivity, high cost of treatments (legal, hospital and law enforc...
ABSTRACT Background: Obesity is a growing public health issue even in low and middle income countries which are usually associated with issues of undernutrition. The growing prevalence is leading to what is known as the “double burden” of malnutrition (Manyanga, El-Sayed, Doku, & Randall, 2014). Adolescents are a group that are particularly vulnerable with respect to obesity because they are likely to carry obesity into their later years (Manyanga et al., 2014; Teshome, Singh, & Debebe, ...
ABSTRACT Background Substantial evidence have shown that food environment contributes to the increasing obesity and other nutrition-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among children and adults. The increasing obesity prevalence and nutrition-related NCDs suggest there is a need for a more comprehensive and robust approach including regulating environmental food exposures. In certain jurisdictions, nutrition standards can regulate the nature and quality of foods sold in schools contribu...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of substance use, the age of first substance use and factors the influence the use among Junior High school pupils in the Dangme West District. Stratified random sampling of 366 JHS pupils within the eight education circuit areas in the district completed structured questionnaires. Four focus group discussions were carried out with two groups of girls and two groups of boys and five key informants interviewed on substance use. A...
ABSTRACT Under-five mortality in developing countries is a major problem. Vaccine preventable disease like measles, tuberculosis, pertusis and tetanus account for a significant proportion. Ghana has therefore set herself the aim of achieving herd immunity for these diseases. The District Health Manager Teams have been provided with resources to enable this noble aim to be achieved and the Kintampo District is no exception. This study assesses the immunisation coverage of the Kintampo subdist...
ABSTRACT Background :Inadequate breastfeeding of infants leads to poor nutrition among them, which adversely affect their development. The perception that breast milk alone is insufficient for growth and development of infants presents a major challenge to the practice of exclusive breastfeeding for six months by nursing mothers. Objective: To assess the effect of mothers perception of insufficient breast milk as insufficient food on exclusive breast feeding among mothers of infants aged 6-...
ABSTRACT Background: Children with cleft lip/palate suffer major functional morbidity such as restricted maxillofacial growth, speech anomalies, swallowing and feeding difficulties, hearing impairment/or recurrent ear infections. Cleft lip/palate are generally not lifethreatening, living with cleft evokes a notable health burden. Objective: To assess the awareness and knowledge of pregnant women attending Mamprobi polyclinic on cleft lip and or palate. Methods: A cross-sectional study desig...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Malaria is a major public health threat to AngloGold Ashanti‟s operations, largely responsible for lower productivity and high expenditure on treatments. Morbidity and mortality is also known to be high in young children and pregnant women in the locality. In an effort to lessen the malaria burden on its operations, the company in 2005 introduced a 3-year malaria control programme that uses multiple approaches in what has now become known as the „Obuasi Model‟. The...
ABSTRACT Introduction “Emergency contraception (EC), or post-coital contraception is the method of contraception that can be used to prevent pregnancy in the first 5 days after sexual intercourse”. Unprotected sexual intercourse leads to unwanted pregnancies, resulting in abortions, abortion-related complications, and other health problems. The study considered the perception and use of EC among the female youth of Chorkor to help inform contraceptive policy and use. A descriptive cross...
ABSTRACT Background: Home visit is a strategy used to reach out to members of a household for discussion and provision of health services by Community Health Officers. This approach is mostly used in deprived communities to provide health services at the doorstep of community members. Not much is known about this strategy in the public health sector. From the review of literature, malaria forms a significant proportion of diseases in most of the Out-Patient Departments. There are also a sign...
ABSTRACT Background: Power relations among district health managers border on which district health manager has formal as well as any informal powers to do what, and to what extent, and the manifestation of power among these managers. A healthy relationship between health institutions at the district level is dependent on the clarity of formal and informal rules governing the arrangements of these healthcare institutions. These rules translate into the power structure for district health man...
ABSTRACT Introduction: Mother-to-Child Transmission (MTCT) is the main source of HIV in children. In an attempt to curb this, the UNAIDS in the year 2009 called for the elimination of MTCT of HIV by the year 2015. Ghana began the implementation of PMTCT in the year 2001, using an intervention package made up of four prongs. Study Objectives: This study investigated the factors that affected the implementation of PMTCT of HIV in Tema General Hospital from 2012 – 2016. It also assessed the ...
ABSTRACT General objective: The main objective of the research was to determine the level of knowledge and determinants of Breast Cancer screening among female personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). Methodology: Descriptive survey involving the use of questionnaire was used to obtain quantitative data from the respondents. A sample size of two hundred and ninety nine (299) female personnel of the GAF was used for the research using the stratified sampling method. The statistical package...