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Bodily Pain Severity and Emotional Pain Experience in Old Age: Analyses of Potential Mediators from Representative Ghana Aging Survey
(ScienceDirect, 2025)Data on the association between pain and emotional health outcomes in old age primarily come from high-income samples. This study examines the cross-sectional association of bodily pain with emotional pain in a representative ... -
Lived Experiences of Nonmedical Use of Tramadol among Urban Slum-dwelling Youth in Ghana: a Qualitative Study
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2025)The world is witnessing a pharmaceutical opioid crisis, and in Africa's version, the nonmedical use of Tramadol is prevalent in vulnerable populations. However, data on the factors promoting nonmedical use of Tramadol in ... -
Caregiving Dynamics and Labor Market Outcomes of Unorganized Caregivers of Older Adults in Ghana
(2025)Unorganized caregivers increasingly face significant challenges that impact their participation in the labor market, particularly in low and middle income countries. This paper explores the effects of both care intensity ... -
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Heat Exposure to Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Respiratory Diseases and Diabetes Mellitus in Low- & Middle-Income Countries
(Elsevier, 2025)Climate change has led to an increase in global temperatures and adversely impacted human health, for example, by exacerbating the burden of non-communicable diseases. This systematic review and meta-analyses aim to ... -
Subnational Trends and Inequalities of Under-Immunisation and Zero-Dose among Children Aged 12 - 23 Months in Uganda: A National Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.
(BMJ, 2025)Despite the Global Vaccine Action Plan's goal of at least 90% vaccine coverage for all children, Uganda has made limited progress in vaccination over the past decade. The objective of this study was to examine the subnational ... -
When Health Data Go Dark: The Importance of the DHS Program and Imagining its Future
(BMC, 2025)The suspension and/or termination of many programmes funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by the new US administration has severe short- and long-term negative impacts on the health ... -
The 2025 Report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health: Tracking Progress on Health and Nutrition
(The Lancet, 2025)In line with previous progress reports by Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health, this report analyses global and regional trends and inequalities in health determinants, survival, nutritional ... -
Assessing Courtesy Reporting Bias in Facility-Based Surveys on Person-Centred Maternity Care: Evidence from Urban Informal Settlements in Nairobi and Lusaka
(Journal of global health, 2025)Experience of care is typically measured through client exit surveys administered in the facility. Evidence suggests that such measures suffer from courtesy reporting bias whereby respondents do not accurately report on ... -
Beyond Physical Accessibility, Bypassing Health Facilities Offering Caesarean Section: Insights from Women in Dakar's Slums.
(BMJ, 2025)This study examines the geographic accessibility of Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmONC) among women residing in the slums of Dakar. Participants included 763 women living in urban slums who had undergone a ... -
Associations Between Extreme Weather Events and Child Undernutrition: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, 2010 - 2019
(BMJ, 2025)Extreme weather events, or natural disasters, present a large and increasing threat to human health, infrastructure and food security, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the burden of undernutrition is high. ...
