ABSTRACT Chronic non-communicable diseases pose a challenge to the achievement of developmental goals in low-income and middle-income countries. Over 9 million of all deaths associated with CNCDs occur among the economically active age group (WHO, 2011). Persons living with chronic disease(s) are confronted with psychosocial problems (de-Graft Aikins et al 2010). The study used the 2011 EDULUNK and qualitative data gathered by the RIPS-NYU project, to explore the prevalence of CNCDs in the ur...
ABSTRACT The population of persons aged 60 years and above has been increasing over the years and thus has become necessary to understand the living arrangements of the elderly population and develop policies to address challenges elderly persons face in the face the breakdown in the traditional family system of living arrangement due to rapid modernization and urbanization. This study investigates the relationship between household composition and welfare of elderly persons in Adukrom. The m...
ABSTRACT In the lower primary classrooms in Ghana, most teachers are faced with the challenge of having to teach pupils from diverse ethnic and language groups. This qualitative study therefore investigates the practicalities of the instructional language policy and the role that English plays in multilingual classrooms at the lower primary schools. Accordingly, the research aims to find answers to the following questions. First, what medium of instruction does a teacher who does not understa...
ABSTRACT Safe drinking water is a basic need for good health as well as for human and economic development. Diarrhoea kills more than HIV and AIDS, and malaria combined. Diarrhoea kills about two million people especially children under five each year. The study investigates the relationship between source of household drinking water and diarrhoea incidence among children under five years in Ghana. A sample of 2,728 women who had given birth in the last five years preceding the survey was dra...
ABSTRACT This study sought to examine the influence of psychological contract breach (PCB) on employees’ affective, continuance and normative commitment. It also examined leader-member exchange (LMX) as a moderator of the relationship between PCB and the dimensions of organizational commitment. Job embeddedness (JE) and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) were also examined as mediators of this relationship. Two hundred and ninety-eight (298) teachers were conveniently sampled from both p...
ABSTRACT There is increased exposure of people and critical livelihood assets to flooding globally due to climate change and modification of the biophysical system through human activities. Flooding has become an annual phenomenon in Accra in recent decades and has severe impacts on the poor and vulnerable. Using transdisciplinary techniques across the social and biophysical sciences, this study examined the extent of exposure of urban population to flooding, and the assets and structures tha...
ABSTRACT The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the EU and the ECOWAS sub region which seeks to alter the long standing non-reciprocal arrangements that have existed between the two parties has been contentious. The necessity to change this relation has been occasioned by the inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a rule-based and member driven organization, the WTO abhors discrimination. Thus member states must face identical opportunities where trade is concerned. The...
ABSTRACT There is a growing effort in the field of international development to address poverty in developing countries through women’s empowerment. However, development agencies often implement only a set of standard repertoire of interventions aimed at expanding the scope of women’s choices as the outcome of their empowerment. As a result, development interventions have failed to alleviate poverty among rural women as inequalities in the capabilities of and opportunities for both women ...
Abstract Flooding is an environmental challenge faced by many nations in the 21st Century. Studies have shown that recent floods in cities are responsible for the outbreak of cholera and non-cholera diarrhoea, but there is little work on the risk perceptions of diarrhoea resulting from flooding. Also, it is not known how risk perceptions of diarrhoea mediate the relationship between flooding and diarrhoeal disease. The risk perceptions people develop resulting from their exposure to floods is...
Abstract This study analyses Uganda’s 2004 Broadcast Policy in light of the WSIS principles in order to establish whether the policy enables radio to build an inclusive and people-centred Information Society, and if so, in what ways it does this. The study specifically focuses on radio, which it views as the dominant medium in Uganda, and therefore the medium with the greatest potential to build a sustainable Information Society in the country. The study is informed by media policy theorie...
ABSTRACT The study was conducted to examine yam production and its contribution to household income and food security in Zabzugu
ABSTRACT This work seeks to analyse the difficulties learners of French at the S H S level have with the transformation of active sentences into passive sentences. We collected data from two Senior High Schools, namely: Accra Academy and St Mary’s Girls’ Senior High, both in the capital city of Ghana. In this study, we used twenty (20) learners from each school, making up a total of forty (40) learners, to enable us get data for the analyses. We used questionnaires and exercises to coll...
ABSTRACT Boko Haram’s religious militancy and terrorist activities have become a major national, regional and international concern; as its terrorist violence has spread beyond the borders of Nigeria to Cameroon, Niger, Chad, and Mali. The group has survived many counter-terrorist attempts to defeat it. Nigeria has constituted the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) made up of Chad, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Niger in fighting Boko Haram in its attempt to end the Boko Haram menace. T...
ABSTRACT In Ghana like in other countries, Business Development Services has been acknowledged as a pro- poor development intervention because of its special program models in meeting the required needs of the rural poor especially women. This study analysed how dawadawa processors’ access to Business Development Service under Business Advisory Centre can economically empower them in the Chereponi District. The study was guided by Ester Boserup’s WID theory combined with Schultz’s Huma...
ABSTRACT The simplest and most basic census item age, mostly present difficulties with regard to its accuracy in statistically underdeveloped countries where civil registration coverage is limited in terms of its accessibility. The study aimed at evaluating and adjusting age data of the population and housing census of Ghana. Several evaluation tools were used to examine the errors. These include visual inspection of the data and at the same time graphing the single age data which revealed h...