OBJECTIVES The current study sought to examine the association between the degree of pain and socioeconomic status among older male and female Ghanaians. METHOD Data were drawn from the 2007-08 World Health Organization Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) survey conducted in Ghana (Young adults=803, Adults=1689 and Older adults=2616). This includes bodily aches Ghanaians experienced in the ...

Title: Association Between Aflatoxin B1 Albumin Adduct Levels and Tuberculosis Infection Among HIV+ Ghanaians. Background: Aflatoxin exposure has been shown to cause cell-mediated immune suppression and enhance HIV viral replication. Such immune suppression from aflatoxin can impair resistance to both infectious diseases and chronic infections. Methods: Hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence i...

Using an ethnographic approach we sought to understand how the personal aspirations and social landscapes of Ghanaians living in London shaped their use of a constellation of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as camcorders, digital cameras, the Internet, and mobile phones. Among the individuals we interviewed we discovered two trajectories of ICT use. One trajectory fit...

BACKGROUND C-reactive protein (CRP) levels are reported to be elevated in populations of African descent living in affluent environments compared to populations of European ancestry. However, the natural history of CRP levels in populations of African descent living under adverse environments remains largely unknown. METHODS CRP levels were measured with a high sensitivity assay in 624 appare...

BACKGROUND Dietary acculturation may contribute to the increased burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in diasporic populations of African ancestry. OBJECTIVE To assess nutritional composition and the contribution that traditional foods make to the diets of native and UK-dwelling Ghanaian adults. DESIGN An observational study of Ghanaian adults living in Accra (n=26) and London (n=57) ...

Scholars of natural resource governance argue that national and local governments must engage ordinary community members. When members access information about the utilization revenue get an opportunity to provide feedback, management improves. In this article, authors engaged Ghanaians through a spatial crowdsourcing platform for their opinion petroleum in Ghana. The participants accessed via ...

this article studies the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian news website entitled modern ghana. a total of 87 articles comprising 43752 words were retrieved. van leeuwen’s (2008) theory of the representation of the social actors was utilised to examine the depiction of chinese miners in the ghanaian press. in this regard, six applicable tools were used and these include exclusion, role...