Health seeking behaviour of caregivers of children under five and its determinants in Ho West and Adaklu districts, Volta Region, Ghana: a community-based cross-sectional study

Authors: Joseph Osarfo, Gifty Dufie Ampofo, Harry Kwami Tagbor

Source: BMC Public Health, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2025)

Subject Terms: Prompt health seeking behaviour, Children under-five, Determinants, Knowledge of childhood danger signs, Volta Region, Ghana, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2458

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Incidence, trend and distribution of transport-related injuries reported to health facilities in the Volta Region of Ghana, 2019 to 2023

Authors: Victor Zeng, Williams Azumah Abanga, Samuel Adolf Bosoka, Maxwell Afetor, Christopher Sunkwa Tamal, Gyesi Razak Issahaku, Clement Tetteh Narh, Frank Baiden, Chrysantus Kubio

Source: BMC Public Health, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2024)

Subject Terms: Transport injuries, Incidence, Trends, Distribution, Volta Region, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2458

Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/cb978b9a3cd54acaaa1e9afcb99fbdf9

Motivation, responsibilities, and experiences of HIV/AIDS counselors in the Volta Region of Ghana: a descriptive phenomenological study

Authors: Festus Dwomoh, Mbuyiselo Douglas, Veronica O. Charles-Unadike, Joyce Komesuor, Emmanuel Manu

Source: AIDS Research and Therapy, Vol 21, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2024)

Subject Terms: HIV/AIDS, HIV counseling, HIV prevention and treatment, Ghana AIDS Commission, Volta Region, Immunologic diseases. Allergy, RC581-607

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1742-6405

Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/5ee562dd1b4d4dff8934a365ca25c34a

Combating land degradation for sustainable smallholder agriculture and food sovereignty in Ghana’s Volta Region

Authors: Armstrong Francis Tumawu, George Yao Kafu, Anthony Kangah, Mary Magdalene M. Tumawu

Source: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 9 (2025)

Subject Terms: land degradation, smallholder, agriculture, food sovereignty, Volta region, remote sensing, Nutrition. Foods and food supply, TX341-641, Food processing and manufacture, TP368-456

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Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1455515/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2571-581X

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Cases of burns reported to health facilities in the Volta Region of Ghana, 2019–2023

Authors: Maxwell Afetor, Samuel Adolf Bosoka, Williams Azumah Abanga, Victor Zeng, Christopher Sunkwa Tamal, Gyesi Razak Issahaku, Clement Tetteh Narh, Frank Baiden, Chrysantus Kubio

Source: Burns Open, Vol 8, Iss 4, Pp 100373- (2024)

Subject Terms: Burns, Injuries, Incidence, Trend, Volta region, Ghana, Dermatology, RL1-803, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468912224000610; https://doaj.org/toc/2468-9122

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Betting high, feeling low: a cross-sectional examination of gambling severity and psychological distress among Ghanaian youth

Authors: Emmanuel Manu, Francis Acquah, Mbuyiselo Douglas, Emmanuel Akitty, Emefa Priscilla Zanu, Mary Akua Ampomah, Prince Owusu Adoma

Source: BMC Public Health, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2024)

Subject Terms: Gambling, Mental health, Psychological distress, Standardised psychometric tools, Volta Region, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2458

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The History of Togoland Under the British Rule (1914‒1956)

Authors: Lapushkina Alina Olegovna

Source: Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 93-109 (2024)

Subject Terms: volta region, british togoland 1914–1956, ewe, mandate, missionaries, gold coast, History of Africa, DT1-3415, Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology, GN301-674, International relations, JZ2-6530

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Relation: https://africajournal.ru/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lapushkina-Istoriya-Togolenda.pdf; https://doaj.org/toc/2412-5717; https://doaj.org/toc/3034-3496

Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/9b9935e43a6b43f09747f24f3ca771f9

Lay beliefs of COVID-19 vaccine refusal among intercity commercial drivers in the Volta region of Ghana: recommendations for improved vaccine uptake

Authors: Emmanuel Manu, Mbuyiselo Douglas, Mawuli Komla Kushitor, Joyce Komesuor, Mary Akua Ampomah, Nicholas Obuobisa Opoku

Source: Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2024)

Subject Terms: COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Vaccine hesitancy, Lay beliefs, Ghana, Volta region, Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine, RC955-962

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2055-0936

Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/2e8392caab2340529c6e3fd73765c87b

Evaluation of the malaria surveillance system – Adaklu District, Volta Region, Ghana, 2019

Authors: E.E. Agbemafle, C. Kubio, D. Bandoh, M.A. Odikro, C.K. Azagba, R.G. Issahaku, S.O. Sackey

Source: Public Health in Practice, Vol 6, Iss , Pp 100414- (2023)

Subject Terms: Malaria, Surveillance system, Evaluation, Adaklu, Volta region, Ghana, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666535223000605; https://doaj.org/toc/2666-5352

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Predictors of adherence to HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis protocol among frontline healthcare workers at the Ho Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Authors: Rita Esi Suglo, Fortress Yayra Aku, Judith A. Anaman-Torgbor, Elvis Enowbeyang Tarkang

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 106, Iss , Pp 208-212 (2021)

Subject Terms: PEP, HIV, HCWs, Ho Teaching Hospital, Volta Region, Ghana, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971221002976; https://doaj.org/toc/1201-9712

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Community-based active tuberculosis case finding using a symptom-based screening tool in the Volta Region, Ghana

Authors: George Edward Ntow, Margaret Kweku, Enoch Aninagyei, Kwabena O. Duedu

Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol 102, Iss , Pp 56-62 (2021)

Subject Terms: Community TB screening, Community active case search, House-to-house Screening, Durbar, Tuberculosis, Volta Region, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216

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Relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122032155X; https://doaj.org/toc/1201-9712

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Potential health risk assessment of toxic metals contamination in clay eaten as pica (geophagia) among pregnant women of Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana

Authors: Nii Korley Kortei, Alice Koryo-Dabrah, Papa Toah Akonor, Nana Yaw Barimah Manaphraim, Matilda Ayim-Akonor, Nathaniel Owusu Boadi, Edward Ken Essuman, Clement Tettey

Source: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2020)

Subject Terms: Pica, Geophagy, Clay, Volta region, Pregnant women, Risk assessment, Gynecology and obstetrics, RG1-991

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Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12884-020-02857-4; https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2393

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Reflecting on tuberculosis case notification and treatment outcomes in the Volta region of Ghana: a retrospective pool analysis of a multicentre cohort from 2013 to 2017

Authors: Eric Osei, Samuel Oppong, Daniel Adanfo, Bless Ativor Doepe, Andrews Owusu, Augustine Goma Kupour, Joyce Der

Source: Global Health Research and Policy, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2019)

Subject Terms: Tuberculosis, Case notification, Treatment outcomes, Volta region, Ghana, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2397-0642

Access URL: https://doaj.org/article/c29c2d69b5464215974237bc4d434a57

Factors influencing adherence to the new intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy policy in Keta District of the Volta region, Ghana

Authors: Alren O. Vandy, Nana Yaw Peprah, Joseph Yaw Jerela, Perfect Titiati, Abubakar Manu, Joseph Akamah, Ernest T. Maya, Kwasi Torpey

Source: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019)

Subject Terms: Malaria, Adherence, IPTp-SP, Volta region, Ghana, Gynecology and obstetrics, RG1-991

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Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12884-019-2544-8; https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2393

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Le Massa et l'eau de Moussa: Cultes régionaux, "traditions" locales et sorcellerie en Afrique de l'Ouest (Massa and Moussa's Water: Regional Cults, Local "Traditions" and Witchcraft in West Africa)

Authors: Royer, Patrick

Source: Cahiers d'Études Africaines, 1999 Jan 01. 39(154), 337-366.

Access URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4392944

The burden of HIV on Tuberculosis patients in the Volta region of Ghana from 2012 to 2015: implication for Tuberculosis control

Authors: Eric Osei, Joyce Der, Richard Owusu, Philip Kofie, Wisdom Kudzo Axame

Source: BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017)

Subject Terms: TB, HIV, Co-infection, Burden, Volta region, Ghana, Infectious and parasitic diseases, RC109-216

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Relation: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-017-2598-z; https://doaj.org/toc/1471-2334

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Girls in West Africa offered into sexual slavery as 'wives of gods' (Nov. 2018)

Authors: Mensah Wisdom

Source: The Conversation: An Independent Source of Analysis from Academic Researchers.

Availability: https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/conversqauq/girls_in_west_africa_offered_into_sexual_slavery_as_wives_of_gods/0

8 August 1914

Source: The Hutchinson Chronology of World History.

Availability: https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/heliconcwh/8_august_1914/0

Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin

Authors: Osam, E. Kweku., Kropp Dakubu, M. E. (Mary Esther), Legon-Trondheim Linguistics Project. Colloquium (2002 : Legon, Ghana), University of Ghana. Linguistics Department.

Relation: Studies in the languages of the Volta Basin.

Access URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112086233761

Availability: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c097901301

An outbreak of suspected cutaneous leishmaniasis in Ghana: lessons learnt and preparation for future outbreaks

Authors: Daniel Boakye, Silvia Botero, Kwadwo Koram, Karl C. Kronmann, Greg Raczniak, Ben Gyan, Naiki Puplampu, Kwame Desewu, Godwin Kwakye Nuako, Shirley Odoom, Margaret A. Kweku, Hannah Akuffo

Source: Global Health Action, Vol 4, Iss 0, Pp 1-9 (2011)

Subject Terms: cutaneous leishmaniasis, Ghana, Volta Region, West Africa, outbreak, follow-up, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270

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Relation: http://www.globalhealthaction.net/index.php/gha/article/view/5527/9454; https://doaj.org/toc/1654-9880

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