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 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 In Ghana and other sub-Saharan African countries, the family is the primary caregiver for elderly persons and provides other forms of support to them. Urbanisation and its associated consequences have weakened traditional family ties and obligation, and subsequently impaired care for the elderly, particularly in urban poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Against this backdrop, this study explored the experiences of family caregivers and their elderly care recipients in two urban c...
ABSTRACT C-section births have been increasing, yet disparities exist in the rates spatially and among socioeconomic sub-groups globally. Wide C-section disparities mirror a situation of overuse or underuse of the procedure with implications for maternal mortality. Factors associated with the Csection rise and disparities have not been well documented. The determinants of C-section rise and disparities have focused extensively on individual, institutional and medical factors to the neglect o...
ABSTRACT Stalls in fertility transition have been observed in many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, including Ghana. This stalling fertility, defy the Demographic Transition Theory and have attracted the research attention. Current studies seeking to unravel the causes of the stalling fertility have been inconclusive. Changes in the timing and prevalence of marriage are areas that call for attention because total fertility rate is a function of the age composition of the proportion ever m...
ABSTRACT Over six hundred thousand deaths attributable to household air pollution (HAP) occur annually in Africa. On average, women who smoke fish spend six hours daily exposed to hazardous pollutants from biomass fuel. Continued exposure to household air pollution presents a direct health risk to the fish processors, particularly, women and children who are exposed to air pollutants. The main objective of the study was to assess the health and climate implications of biomass consumption by ...
Background: The study of parent-child living arrangements and children’s required level of education attained was borne out of observations made and concerns shown by the researcher towards people who have experienced the phenomenon of single parenting. Most of the arguments are that children suffer when they grow in any other type of parent-child living arrangements other than both parents. As more single-parent families appear in societies, interest grows as to the effect of these ho...
ABSTRACT This thesis explores the perception and adaptation strategies undertaken among smallholder farmers in agro-ecological zones in rural Ghana. It applies a quantitative analysis of data on 529 farmers in four agro-ecological zones to assess the difference in perception of climate change and the influence on their adaptation strategies. Data for the study was obtained from the 2016 Climate Change, Women in Agriculture and Food Security survey collected by Regional Institute for Populati...
ABSTRACT Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The rise in unhealthy diets in Africa has been linked to conditions of health disorder previously seen in regions of greater affluence. The nutrition transition which is the change in diet from those of high nutrition value to those high in fat, sugar and salt is increasing obesity and NCDs globally. Knowledge of disease has been observed to play a crucial role amongst the modif...
ABSTRACT The reduction in the rate of miscarriage, stillbirth and induced abortion is a major challenge for thehealth system, governments and the society (Schoeps et al.,2007). This incidence is often high and concentrated in regions with most disadvantaged populations with low income and Ghana is not an exception. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to identify and examine the correlates of pregnancy loss experience among ever pregnant women in their reproductive ages in Ghana using t...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between perception of sex and sexual behaviour among adolescents in poor urban communities in Accra. It also critically examined the attitudes of young adults towards sexual issues. The study further sought to investigate other sexual experiences of the adolescents in Ga-Mashie-a poor urban community in Accra. Round two survey of the EDULINK Urban Health and Poverty Project-individual questionnaire was used. The sample size was a total of 326 ...
ABSTRACT A study was undertaken in certain locations with contextual factors conducive to the sex trade in the capital city of Ghana; Accra. The areas were as follows: Konkomba market, Agbobloshie, Abuja/CMB, Railways, Dome/St Johns, Madina, Okaishie/druglane, Awoshie/Mangoase, Chorkor and Korle Gonno. The objectives of the study were to investigate the characteristics of child sex workers, examine what drives them into the trade, identify the challenges child sex workers encounter and how th...
ABSTRACT HIV/AIDS and increasing population levels are topical issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Male condoms may be the solution to these two problems. The vulnerability of urban poor communities in Accra to these problems cannot be overlooked. It is essential to find out the level of male condom usage in such urban poor communities. This study primarily sought to compare male condom use among three urban poor communities in Accra. The study also investigated the influence of community of reside...
ABSTRACT Studies on internal migration in Ghana have largely been on the prominence of rural to urban migration. But little is known on the various types of internal migration and the factors influencing their employment characteristics. This paper is a quantitative research which employed the Ghana Living Standard Survey round six (GLSS, 2013/2014) and a sample size of 7,195 migrants aged between 15 and 34 years to investigate the socioeconomic factors that influence migrants employment cha...
ABSTRACT Male involvement in abortion and post-abortion family planning use is pivotal in reducing unintended pregnancies while optimising contraceptive use. While literature is extant with the positive outcomes of men’s role in abortion and contraceptive use, there is insufficient interrogation of the relationship between male partners’ involvement in abortion and post-abortion family planning uptake. This study sought to examine the relationship between male partners’ involvement in a...