The Impact of Preventive Health Behaviors and Risk Factors on Health Status of Ghanaians

نویسندگان

  • Bashiru I. I. Saeed
  • A. R. Abdul-Aziz
  • Samuel Blay Nguah
  • Xicang Zhao
چکیده

The article here investigated the impact of Preventive Health Behaviors and Risk Factors as measures of Health Status of Ghanaians. We carry out a cross-sectional analysis of 5573 adults who participated and had indicated that they needed to state their health description in the three years prior to the phase 2007 World Health Organization, a study on Global Ageing and Adult health (SAGE) conducted in Ghana. The ordinal logistic regression model was employed for analysis using R. The results suggest that, there is incontrovertible evidence showing a strong relationship between preventive health behaviors and health status of Ghanaians. Again, the lifestyle of Ghanaians clearly manifests in their positive correlation with the good and moderate health state due to the high percentage (38.96% and 39.04%) respectively. The outcome points to a potential link with the Ghanaian social and health policies.

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دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013