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Nkrumah Agyabeng, Anthony; Ahwireng, Patience Obeng; Bawole, Justice Nyigmah; Mickson, Michael Kwame; Ahenkan, Albert – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the electricity challenges confronting slums in order to understand the health implications thereof. Design/methodology/approach: The study utilized purposive sampling techniques supported by the convenience sampling method within the context of qualitative research to select 30 interviewees of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Slums, Energy, Barriers
Charitonos, Koula; Littlejohn, Allison – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
This article examines tensions that professionals in healthcare settings in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs) face in the evolving field around surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Few public health problems are of greater global importance today than AMR, that poses a threat to our ability to treat infections. In this context, the…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Health Services, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Parkhurst, Justin; Ghilardi, Ludovica; Webster, Jayne; Hoyt, Jenna; Hill, Jenny; Lynch, Caroline A. – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: Conceptualisations of what it means to use evidence in policymaking often appear divided between two extremes. On the one side are works presenting it as the implementation of research findings - particularly evaluations of intervention effect. In contrast stand theoretically informed works exploring the multiple meanings of evidence…
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Research and Development
Emmanuel Orkoh; Uchenna Efobi – Evaluation Review, 2024
Behaviour change communication (BCC) remains a central component of the interventions used in the fight against malaria in Ghana. However, there is limited evidence of its effectiveness. This study evaluated the effects of BCC strategies on knowledge (symptoms, causes and prevention) and overall knowledge of malaria among Ghanaian women aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Change, Health Behavior, Diseases
Ahwireng, Doreen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
Resuming in-person teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic implies that schools must deploy strategies to enforce adherence to the safety protocols to help contain and reduce the spread of the corona virus disease among school children. Thus, the current qualitative study adopted a case study design to explore strategies that were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Morgan, Verity – Teaching History, 2022
In order to contextualise and make sense of the COVID-19 pandemic, Verity Morgan worked with her school's long-standing partner school in Ghana to devise an innovative project combining history and science, past and present. In this article, Morgan sets out the rationale for the project, her detailed adaptation of a British Council resource and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, History Instruction, Science Education
Owusu, Samuel Asiedu; Owusu, Rebecca Asiedu; Hampshire, Kate – Child Care in Practice, 2021
As work practices and living arrangements change, many mothers, who are often primary child caregivers, have to make some decisions as they try to balance childcare with paid work. Increasingly, childcare is shared between parents and other caregivers. However, little is known, especially in Ghana, about the childcare practices of mothers and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Caregiver Child Relationship, Drug Therapy
Tenkorang, Eric Y.; Amo-Adjei, Joshua; Kumi-Kyereme, Akwasi – Youth & Society, 2021
Although Ghana's comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) program has been lauded, no study has examined its association with the sexual health outcomes of Ghanaian youth. Using data collected from 2,982 in-school youth (male = 1,820 and female = 1,162) aged 15 to 17 years in three administrative regions of the country, we applied discrete-time…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Adolescents, Sexuality
Amo-Adjei, Joshua – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2021
Providing young people and children with age and developmentally appropriate comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is important for young people in making informed decisions. There are presently few studies documenting the relationship between school grade of learning CSE and curriculum coverage. We studied this relationship using a 2015…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Education, Children, Adolescents