Ghana - Demographic and Health Survey 2008, Ghana

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gha-gss-dhs-2008-v1

Year

2008

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Services (GSS)
Ghana. Ministry of Health

Sponsor(s)

United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial assistance
United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA - Financial assistance
United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - Financial assistance
Ghana AIDS Commission - GAC - Fi

Collection(s)

Data on Aliments, Tobacco, and Alcohol (DATA) in Africa Project

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May 22, 2013

Last modified

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1 Saleh, Karima. A health sector in transition to universal coverage in Ghana. Washington DC, USA: The World Bank, 2012.

2 Power, Gerry, Samia Khatun, and Klara Debeljak. "Citizen access to information: Capturing the evidence across Zambia, Ghana, and Kenya." The Handbook of Global Media Research (2012).

3 Johnson, Holly. "Routledge International Handbook of Crime and Gender Studies." The Gendered Nature of Violance (2012).

4 Weitzman, Aibgail. "The daughter tax? The sex of offspring and maternal consequences in twenty-eight developing countries." (unpublished) (2012).

5 Engmann, Cyril, Paul Walega, Raymond A Aborigo, Philip Adongo, Cheryl A Moyer, Layla Lavasani, John Williams, Carl Bose, Fred Binka, and Abraham Hodgson. "Stillbirths and early neonatal mortality in rural Northern Ghana." Tropical Medicine & International Health 17, no. 3 (2012): 272-282.

6 Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward, Aaron Abuosi, and Eric Arthur. "Neonatal care." Maternal socio-economic status and childhood birth weight: A health survey in Ghana (2012).

7 Burgert, Clara R, Sarah E Bradley, Erin Eckert, and Fres Arnold. "ImprovIng EstImates of InsectIcIde- Treated MosquIto Net Coverage from Household Surveys: Using GeographIc Coordinates to Account for EndemIcIty and SeasonalIty." DHS Analytical Studies. 32 (2012).

8 Zere, Eyob, Joses M Kirigia, Sambe Duale, and James Akazili. "Inequities in maternal and child health outcomes and interventions in Ghana." BMC Public Health 12, no. 1 (2012): 252-0.

9 Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward, Aaron Abuosi, and Eric Arthur. Maternal Socio-Economic Status and Childhood Birth Weight: A Health Survey in Ghana. 2012.

10 Moyer A, Cheryl. "Facility-based delivery in Ghana: A three-part study of drivers and deterrents." PhD, Health Services, Organization, and Policy, The University of Michigan, 2012.

11 Picone, Gabriel, and Robyn Kibler. "The effect of malaria prevalence on usage of mosquito nets and ACT for children under 5 in Sub-Saharan Africa Gabriel Picone Department of Economics University of South Florida." (unpublished draft) (2012).

12 Novignon, Jacob, and Justice Nonvignon. "Socioeconomic status and the prevalence of fever in children under age five: evidence from four sub-Saharan African countries." BMC Research Notes 5, no. 1 (2012): 380-0.

13 Abdulai, Martha. "Factors influencing condom use among women in rural Ghana: A cross-sectional survey." Master of Public Health, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012.

14 Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward, Eric Arthur, and Aaron Abuosi. "Correlates of contraceptive use among Ghanaian women of reproductive age (15-49 years)." African Journal of Reproductive Health 16, no. 3 (2012): 154-169.

15 Gmatieyindu S, Peter. "Demographic and social correlates differentiating Ghanaian women receiving optimal versus sub-optimal antenatal care; the 2008 Measure DHS+ Project.." Master, University of Bergen, 2012.

16 Ayoya, Mohamed A, Mohamed A Bendech, Noel M Zagre´, and Fe´licite´ Tchibindat. "Maternal anaemia in West and Central Africa: time for urgent action." Public Health Nutrition 15, no. 5 (2011): 916-0.

17 Biney, Adriana. "Exploring contraceptive knowledge and use among women experiencing induced abortion in the Greater Accra Region, Ghana." African Journal of Reproductive Health 15, no. 1 (2011): 0-0.

18 Bentum, Joyce. "Birthweight of newborns in relation to the nutritional status of pregnant women in the Atwima Nwabiagya district of Ashanti Region of Ghana." http://dspace.knust.edu.gh:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1189, KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY , 2011.

19 Twumasi, Ebenezer. "The economic impact of Hiv/Aids on labour and capital on the Ghanaian economy." Masters, KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY , 2011.

20 Fiaveh, Daniel Yaw. "Male perspective (s) on condom use: Context of STI/HIV prevention in the University of Ghana community." Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology 3, no. 1 (2011): 17-27.

21 Nyuzaghl, J., S. Ohene, and K. Odoi-Agyarko. "Acceptability of routine offer of HIV testing (opt-out approach) among pregnant women in the Wa municipality." Ghana Medical Journal 45, no. 1 (2011): 0-0.

22 Ananga, Eric Daniel. "The drop out experience of basic school children in rural Ghana: implications for universal basic education policy." PhD, University of Sussex, 2011.

23 Wilson J, Alex. "Mothers' wealth: Matrilineality and inheritance among the Fantse of Ghana." PhD, Ohio University, 2011.

24 Sealy, Stephanie, Marty Makinen, Ricardo Bitran, Sam Adjei, and Rodrigo Muniz. Private health sector assessment in Ghana. Washington DC, USA: World Bank, 2011.

25 Paintain, Lucy S, Gifty D Antwi, Caroline Jones, Esther Amoako, Rose O Adjei, Nana A Afrah, Brian Greenwood, Daniel Chandramohan, Harry Tagbor, and Jayne Webster. "Intermittent screening and treatment versus intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: Provider knowledge and acceptability." PloS one 6, no. 8 (2011): e2403-0.

26 Aryeetey, Richmond, and J. Ansong. "Overweight and hypertension among college of health sciences employees in Ghana." African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development 11, no. 6 (2011): 0-0.

27 L'Engle, Kelly L, Laura Hinson, and Dawn Chin-Quee. "“I love my ECPs”: challenges to bridging emergency contraceptive users to more effective contraceptive methods in Ghana." Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 37, no. 3 (2011): 146-151.

28 Harding, Robin. "One for the Road: Voting for public goods in Ghana." (2011).

29 Tenkorang, Eric Y, Stephen Gyimah, Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, and Jones Adjei. "Superstition, witchcraft and HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Ghana." Culture, Health & Sexuality 13, no. 9 (2011): 1001-1014.

30 Gaddah, Mawuli, and Alistair Munro. "The progressivity of health care services in Ghana." GRIPS Discussion Papers (2011).

31 Lessler, Justin, C. J Metcalf, Rebecca F Grais, Francisco J Luquero, Derek Cummings, and Bryan Grenfell. "Measuring the performance of vaccination programs using cross-sectional surveys: A likelihood framework and retrospective analysis." PLoS Medicine 8, no. 10 (2011): e1001-0.

32 Saaka, Mahama, and Sylevester Galaa. "Improving the utilization of health and nutrition services: experience from the Catholic Relief Services supported the Development Assistance Programme in Ghana." Primary Health Care Research & Development 12, no. 02 (2011): 145-156.

33 Tagoe, Henry A, and Fidelia A Dake. "Healthy lifestyle behaviour among Ghanaian adults in the phase of a health policy change." Globalization and Health 7, no. 1 (2011): 7-0.

34 Asamaniwa Attua, Ama. "An evaluation of expanded programme on immunization in New Juaben municipality using components of the flashlight triad evaluation model." Masters, KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY , 2011.

35 Nikoi, Ebenezer Goodman Ashi. "Child nutritional well-being in Ghana: An analysis of associated individual, household, and contextual health indicators and socioeconomic and biophysical environmental variables." PhD, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 2011.

36 Naariyong, Sharon, Krishna Poudel, Mosuir Rahman, Junko Yasuoka, Keiko Otsuka, and Masamine Jimba. "Quality of antenatal care services in the Birim North District of Ghana: Contribution of the community-based health planning and services program." Maternal and Child Health Journal (2011).

37 Bawah, Ayaga, James F Phillips, Martin Adjuik, Maya Vaughan-Smith, Bruce Macleod, and Fred N Binka. "The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: Evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana." Scandinavian journal of public health 38, no. 1 (2010): 95-103.

38 Afenyadu, Dela. "Child labour in fisheries and aquaculture, a Ghanian perspective." THE FAO WORKSHOP ON CHILD LABOUR IN FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE . Rome, Italy, 2010.

39 Weeks, John R, Arthur Getis, Allan Hill, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, and David Rain. "Neighborhoods and fertility in Accra, Ghana: An AMOEBA-based approach." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 100, no. 3 (2010): 558-578.

40 Mittelmark, Maurice, and Torill Bull. "Social determinants of rest deprivation amongst Ghanaian women: national and urban-rural comparisons with data from a cross-sectional nationally representative survey." BMC Public Health 10, no. 1 (2010): 580-0.

41 Cofie, Nicholas Nii Sekoh. "Predicting youth sexual deviance: The case of risky sexual behaviour among adolescents in Ghana." Masters, Queen‘s University, 2010.

42 Konan, Emma Roselyne. "Epidemiology of adiposity in childbearing Ghanaian women: a comparative study between urban and rural place of residence." Masters, Georgia State University, 2010.

43 Hill, Emilie. "Unmarried women in Ghana, Africa: Predictors of condom use-an analysis of the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey/questionnaire database." Masters, Virginia Commonwealth Universit, 2010.

44 Yatich, Nelly, Ellen Funkhouser, John Ehiri, Tsiri Agbenyega, Jonathan Stiles, Julian Rayner, Archer Turpin, William Ellis, Yi Jiang, Jonathan Williams, Evans Afriye-Gwayu, Timothy Phillips, and Pauline Jolly. "Malaria, intestinal helminths and other risk factors for stillbirth in Ghana." Infectious diseases in obstetrics and gynecology (2010).

45 Mba, Chuks J, and Delali M Badasu. "Deprivations among children in Ghana: evidence from the 2006 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey." The Social Sciences 5, no. 5 (2010): 440-445.