Rural Ghana
Rural banking concept, an intervention for the development of rural Ghana
... of Rural Development has emerged through socio- political struggle and ...see rural development as the final expropriation, others regard it as a force that will revitalize ...of rural development ...
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Socioeconomic and demographic determinants of birth weight in southern rural Ghana: evidence from Dodowa Health and Demographic Surveillance System
... The Ghana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) found a LBW prevalence of ...from rural households and those from the poorest households are less likely than the more advantaged chil- dren to be weighed ...
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Investing in the cheapest form of energy: efficiency practices of SMEs in rural Ghana
... in rural Ghana and also examine the barriers to energy efficiency ...in rural Ghana. The study recommends that the Ghana Energy Commission should intensify its energy efficiency ...
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Implementation of the integrated management of childhood illness with parasitological diagnosis of malaria in rural Ghana: health worker perceptions
... Preferences for either RDT or microscopy for malaria diagnosis varied. The comparability of results of both microcopy and some RDT kits [32-34] has been assessed and RDTs have been found to be acceptable to caregivers in ...
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Determinants of unintended pregnancies in rural Ghana
... In Ghana, where the situation is critical, very few stu- dies have been undertaken on unintended ...in Ghana through a survey among pregnant women attending an- tenatal clinics in rural and ...
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The “Pregnant Man”; A Strategy Towards Husbands’ Contribution To Maternal And Child Health Risk Reduction In Rural Ghana
... in Ghana are less likely than women to engage in MCH services across the pregnancy period, resulting in poorer prenatal care outcomes and dissatisfaction from the ...
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Structural and functional network characteristics and facility delivery among women in rural Ghana
... Consistent with previous research [25, 27], the mea- sures of social support in our study revealed that women’s perception that there was someone to help them seek health care, and to give them advice during pregnancy ...
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The influence of socioeconomic factors on choice of infant male circumcision provider in rural Ghana; a community level population based study
... instruments to perform circumcision and hygiene. How- ever, other strategies to influence family’s care seeking patterns, improve use of health facilities, and improve use of trained circumcision providers are also ...
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Birth location preferences of mothers and fathers in rural Ghana: Implications for pregnancy, labor and birth outcomes
... The present study is based on a baseline qualitative as- sessment of barriers faced by pregnant women in acces- sing health care services during pregnancy and delivery in Ghana to inform a community-level quality ...
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Prenatal maternal stress and birth outcomes in rural Ghana: sex specific associations
... of Ghana. Subjects were recruited from the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS), which has been described elsewhere ...in rural central ...
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On-Site Design of a Water Filtration System in Rural Ghana
... Agbokpa is a rural community in southern Ghana with no access to clean or running water. Villages without access to water face significant hurdles in obtaining an education and developing their communities’ ...
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Analysis OF Energy Efficiency Practices of SMEs in Ghana: An application of Product Generational Dematerialisation
... of Ghana through a ...in rural Ghana and ascertain whether these practices influence ...the rural emphasis is that few works that have been conducted on energy efficiency are concentrated in ...
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Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in a rural population in Ghana
... In conclusion, the prevalence of an MS diagnosis was alarmingly high among this population of women in rural Ghana, despite high physical workloads. Consist- ent with experience elsewhere, the IDF algorithm ...
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The Significance of Information and Communication Technology for SMEs in Rural Communities
... in rural Ghana using a study of some selected SMEs in the Bawku Municipality in the Upper East region of ...the rural areas within the Bawku ...
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THE RURAL BANK PROFITABILITY NEXUS: EVIDENCE FROM GHANA
... Rural Commercial Bank’s (RCBs) though operate with a rural focus are primarily scheduled commercial banks with a commercial orientation. Beginning with the seminal contribution of Haslem (1968), the ...
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Decline of placental malaria in southern Ghana after the implementation of intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy
... 2000 and 2006. The implementation of e.g. artemisinin- based combination treatment in Ghana and other inter- ventions might have led to a reduced malaria transmis- sion and burden of disease. However, no ...
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Working among the rural communities in Ghana - why doctors choose to engage in rural practice
... choose rural practice [6, 7, ...the rural areas. This is a common problem in Ghana and middle- and low-income countries in sub-Saharan ...in rural remote communities, particularly in low- and ...
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Multicentre studies of insecticide treated durable wall lining in Africa and South East Asia: entomological efficacy and household acceptability during one year of field use
... and Ghana, as recorded using WHO cone bioassay tests, was analysed using a random effects logistic regression model, which took into account between-house variation (within-house correlation of bioassay results) ...
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Prevalence of pregnancy relevant infections in a rural setting of Ghana
... regional differences in HBsAg-carrier rates; a possible explanation for the high prevalence rate in subgroup 1 (21.8%) as compared to subgroup 2 (11.5%) may be its more remote location with less access to the public ...
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Utilization of HIV Counselling and Testing Services in Urban and Rural Communities in Eastern Region of Ghana: Implications for Achieving Universal HCT Coverage
... in rural areas was low as compared to the urban ...the rural communities than in the urban communities and this contradicts Peltzer’s (2009) observation that those living in urban areas were more likely to ...
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