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The prison system in Ghana is devilled with some challenges with regards to their mandate of reforming criminals. There is gap in knowledge regarding the role of the Tamale Central Prisons as an institution for reforming criminals. The main objective of this study was therefore to assess the Tamale Central Prisons as an institution for reforming criminals in Ghana. The study adopted a cross sectional study design whereby only a cross section or the prison inmates was selected. A sample size o...

Providing basic education is considered as slate responsibility. Non-State Actor (NSAs), however have always been involved in basic education service delivery especially supporting girls education, and usually confusing on boundaries between state arid non-state roles with respect to the contribution of NSAs to girls education provision and how effective their strategies in addressing the gender parity gap in basic education. The locus on the role of non-state Actors has deepened within ...

This study analyzed the technical efficiency and identified its determinants in sorghum production. Two-stage sampling technique was used to collect cross-sectional data from 100 smallholder sorghum farmers in Garu district in the upper east region of Ghana using a semi structured questionnaire. The stochastic frontier analysis was used to estimate the level and determinants of technical efficiency while Kendall's coefficient of concordance approach was used to identify and rank the cons...

Poverty has remained an issue which the world continues to struggle with, The high Levels of poverty, especially in sub Saharan Africa remains a major challenge for countries and their development partners. Due to the ills and deprivation associated with poverty, reducing and eliminating it has become an urgent task for most governments. For several decades, Non- Governmental Organisations have complemented governments' efforts in poverty reduction. In Ghana, Non-Governmental Organizatio...

The study assessed the effects of climate change coping and adaptation strategies on food security among smallholder farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana. Purposive and simple random sampling was used to select a total of 240 maize farmers from 8 randomly selected communities in Savelugu/Nanton municipal and Tolon district. The analytical methods used included descriptive analysis and the Kendall’s coefficient of concordance. The results revealed that smallholder maize farmers were fully a...

This study was done in the Northern Region of Ghana (Tolon and Savelegu) in 2017. Primary data on the influence of communication media usage on uptake patterns of rhizobia inoculant technology was collected among 210 respondents using questionnaires. Secondary data was also obtained from SARI, IITA as well as IFDC offices respectively. Descriptive statistics namely percentages and frequencies as well as two-way ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The study revealed that farmers’ level of edu...

For decades, the preparation of a hyperthyroid patient for surgery took several weeks or months utilizing thyroid blocking agents and iodine [24, 25]. Since the 1960s, propranolol has been the agent of choice to attenuate the heightened β- blocker effects of thyrotoxicosis[25]; also in 1973, a preliminary report of 20 patients with hyperthyroidism treated with propranolol and thyroidectomy was presented [25, 31]. It was found that thyrotoxic patients could be prepared for surgery within 2...

Objectives: The length of medical training at the undergraduate level varies across the world ranging from 4.5 to 7 years. In most medical schools including the three others in Ghana, the period of training a doctor is 6-year. Medical students in the University for Development Studies (UDS) however graduate after 7 years, because they spend a year in a mandatory 1st year class called problem-based learning zero (PBL 0). This study assessed the medical students’ attitude toward this mandat...

Interest, use of and research into Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM;補充與替代醫學bǔch ong yǔtì d ai y ıxu e) is on the increase in recent times even in developed countries. It may therefore be appropriate if medical students who would become future physicians possess adequate knowledge and better attitude towards CAMS. This study assessed medical students' knowledge of, attitude towards, and usage of CAM as well as their opinion about integrating CAMs into the medical curriculum. In a cr...

Sub-Sahara African and for that matter Ghana, missed out of the first green revolution. However, with the instrumentality of the former united nations secretary, Kofi Annan, through the Alliance for green revolution in Africa (AGRA) and other bodies, the revolution is being introduced in some parts of Africa, including Ghana. The extent to which the new revolution would work depends on a careful study of the socioeconomic underpinnings of technology adoption. This study sought to investigate ...

Background: Improved dietary and nutrition behavior may help reduce the occurrence of noncommunicable diseases which have become global public health emergencies in recent times. However, doctors do not readily provide nutrition counseling to their patients. We explored medical students’ perspectives on health professionals’ nutrition care responsibility, and why doctors should learn about nutrition and provide nutrition care in the general practice setting. Methods: Semistructured intervi...

Since the declaration of Alma Ata in 1978, health delivery systems have improved especially in the rural areas in Ghana and the Sissala East Municipality in particular. With the implementation of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) concept most rural areas are now accessing modern health care, this they do bring some challenges. The study therefore sought to examine the contributions and challenges of CHPS in the Sissala East Municipality. In conducting the study, des...

The experiment was conducted at Gurumanchaenyili and Zangbalun Fandu in the Tolon and Kumbungu districts, respectively in the Northern region of Ghana to assess the effect of variety, phosphorus fertilizer and inoculant on the nodulation and yield of groundnut, to solve the problem of low productivity in the production of the crop, in 2017 cropping season. Three farmers’ fields were used and each farm represented a replicate. The experiment was a 2×3×3 factorial study laid out in randomi...

Background: The Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) has been widely accepted and recognized for the assessment of the educational environment in a variety of health professions education programs. Concerns regarding the psychometric properties of the DREEM have been raised. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the DREEM in a sample of Ghanaian medical students following a problem‑based learning curriculum. Methods: A sample of 234 second to fourth year medi...

Adolescent undernutrition is a persisting public health problem in low and lower middle income countries (LLMICs). Nutritional trajectories are complexly interrelated with socio‐cultural and economic (SCE) trajectories. However, a synthesis of the SCE determinants or consequences of undernutrition in adolescents is lacking. We undertook a narrative review of published literature to provide a narrative overview of the SCE determinants and consequences associated with undernutrition among adole...

In many organizations, management team is concerned with improvement of organization's performance and profit maximization while employees have perceived interest of better conditions of service and a conducive working environment. When these opposing objectives are not properly dealt with, it results into a fall in the production of goods and services and thereby affects the general output performance of the organization. In light of this, the study sought to examine the role of intra ...

Background: Community Based Education and Service (COBES) are those learning activities that make use of the community as a learning environment. COBES exposes students to the public and primary health care needs of rural communities. The purpose of this study was to investigate students’ perceived usefulness of COBES and its potential effect on their choice of career specialty and willingness to work in rural areas. Method: A mixed method cross sectional study design using semi-structure...

Background: A higher vegetable intake plays an important role in promoting general health and well-being, but there is a dearth of data on the independent effect of vegetable intake on health-related quality of life (HR-QoL). This study contributes to evidence on the independent effect of vegetable consumption on HR-QoL among women in fertile age. Methods: A cross-sectional study of a sample of rural women in fertile age (15–49 years, n = 187), randomly selected from 6 rural communities in th...

Access to credit enhances productivity and quality standard of living by breaking the vicious cycle of poverty of smallholder farmers, especially women farmers. It is usually considered as an essential input to increasing agricultural productivity. This study examined the effect of credit access on welfare through crop output of women farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana. Based on this, semi-structured questionnaire was administered to 300 sampled women farmers selected through a mult...