Essays about: "COMMUNITY HEALTH GHANA"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words COMMUNITY HEALTH GHANA.

1. 1. Challenges and Opportunities for Culturally Sensitive Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in the African Context

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Amanda Amigues; [2022]
   Keywords : Mental Health and Psychosocial Support MHPSS ; Cultural and faith sensitivity; Faith-related coping mechanisms; Faith-based and traditional actors; Stigmatization;

   Abstract : Mental Health and Psychosocial Support is a growing field of intervention in humanitarian assistance worldwide. The influence of culture and faith in individual and collective coping mechanisms and recovery processes has brought scholars to emphasize the need for MHPSS programming to adopt a cultural and faith sensitive approach to increase the cultural relevance and efficacity of interventions. READ MORE

3. 2. THE TRANSITION OF AGING HEALTH PRACTITIONERS TO RETIREMENT STAGE : A comparison between Doctors and Nurses in Sweden and Ghana

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Francisca Assamany; Adom Naomi; [2019]
   Keywords : aging; entrepreneurship; bridge employment; retirement; post-retirement; grey entrepreneurship; Ghana; Sweden.;

   Abstract : Data from various sources indicate that the world’s population is aging and doing so at an unprecedented way. Global population figure of people aged 60 years and over have doubled since the 1980s. READ MORE

4. 3. The Ideology of Mental Illness in Ghana : A Discourse Analysis of Mental Health Laws (1972-2012)

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Afrikanska studier

   Author : Gianpiero Iacovelli; [2018]
   Keywords : Critical Discourse Analysis; Ghana; Ideology; Law; Mental health; Mental health policies; Mental health services; Mental illness; Public safety; Subjectivity;

   Abstract : In 2012, Ghanaian government promulgated a new mental health law aimed at setting up a community-based health care system in order to solve several problems that are affecting mental health facilities and people with mental disorders. The new law was also thought to overcome the limitations of the previous law, which was promulgated in 1972. READ MORE

5. 4. Social Capital and Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme: Understanding Informal Sector Participation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Kofi Abankwa Akuoko; [2014]
   Keywords : Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Pursuing Universal Health Care in a developing economy like Ghana is a bold, laudable idea. Given the immutable benefits of Social Health Insurance in this pursuit, the long-term performance of Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) Schemes in developing countries remains a conundrum when viewed from the predominant economic and health system frameworks. READ MORE

6. 5. Exclusive Breastfeeding and Family Influences in Rural Ghana: A Qualitative Study

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS)

   Author : SEIDU IDDRISU; [2013]
   Keywords : Exclusive breastfeeding; family; Ghana; influence; rural community;

   Abstract : Exclusive breastfeeding has been recognised as an important public health tool for the primary prevention of child morbidity and mortality. Consequently, the WHO and UNICEF have recommended exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months after delivery, followed by introduction of complementary foods and continued breastfeeding for 24 months or more. READ MORE