Publications by authors named "C Tutu"
From legislation to actual health service: evaluation of health provisions in the disability law of Ghana by adolescents with mobility and visual impairments and their families.
Ebenezer Mensah Gyimah Ebenezer Dassah Maxwell Peprah Opoku William Nketsia Afua Ntoaduro Clement Osei Tutu
BMC Health Serv Res
October 2024
Article Synopsis
- Ghana's Persons with Disability Act, 2006 aims to improve healthcare access for adolescents with disabilities, but many still face significant barriers despite legal provisions.
- A study involving 45 participants revealed environmental and systemic challenges, including financial issues and insufficient healthcare support that hinder access to necessary services.
- The research advocates for policy changes to include specialist care in the National Health Insurance Scheme, local health centers, cultural awareness campaigns, and better training for healthcare workers.
One third of 160 operatives working in a permanently noisy industrial environment, within the range of 63-8000 Hz and intensity of sound of about 100 db, were found to suffer from a syndrome of neurocirculatory asthenia and 8.1% from arterial hypertension. Study of the ECG according to the criteria of the Minnesota code showed an increased frequency of upward deflection of ST segment (index 9-2) in 20.
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