Publications by authors named "J M Aheto"
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- Data from Demographic and Health Surveys showed that out of over 600,000 children, about 3% died before age 5, with unsatisfied family planning being the strongest risk factor.
- The presence of multiple risk factors significantly increases the risk of U5M, with those exposed to all five leading risks having over five times higher mortality odds.
Background: Ghana is among the top 10 highest malaria burden countries, with about 20,000 children dying annually, 25% of which were under five years. This study aimed to produce interactive web-based disease spatial maps and identify the high-burden malaria districts in Ghana.
Methods: The study used 2016-2021 data extracted from the routine health service nationally representative and comprehensive District Health Information Management System II (DHIMS2) implemented by the Ghana Health Service.
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- - The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of cardiovascular physical examination (CPE) as a screening method for congenital heart disease (CHD) in newborns at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana.
- - Over eight months, 1,607 newborns were screened, with 52 showing signs of CHD through CPE, and 20 confirmed cases identified via echocardiogram; significant indicators included heart murmurs and dysmorphism.
- - Results indicated that CPE is a reliable and cost-effective screening tool for CHD in low-resource settings, demonstrating high sensitivity (95%) but lower specificity (60.7%).
Health facility delivery has the potential to improve birth and general health outcomes for both newborns and mothers. Regrettably, not all mothers, especially in low-and-middle income countries like Ghana deliver at health facilities, and mostly under unhygienic conditions. Using data from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey, we fitted both weighted single-level and random intercept multilevel binary logistic regression models to analyse predictors of a health facility delivery among mothers aged 15-49 years and to quantify unobserved household and community differences in the likelihood of health facility delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Understanding healthcare utilization during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is crucial to inform policy and to prepare health systems for future pandemics. We examined self-reported healthcare utilization and associated factors, including public health preventive practices, perceptions, and coping strategies among the general public in Ghana during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: We adopted a cross-sectional study design using a public survey to recruit 643 respondents between May 23, and July 11, 2020 during the first wave of confirmed COVID-19 cases and after the fifth week of a partial lockdown in Ghana.