Linus Baatiema

Datos Biográficos

ID6578437
NOMBRELinus Baatiema
NOMBRESLinus
APELLIDOBaatiema
FIRMABAATIEMA L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Cape Coast
ORCID0000-0002-8668-4671
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS12
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR12
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Malnourished Child, Overweight Mother? Examining the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Sub‐Saharan Africa

    Open AccessAlex Bawuah, Linus Baatiema et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2026

    The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) - the coexistence of child undernutrition and maternal overweight/obesity - within the same household is a growing public health challenge in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study assessed the prevalence and determinants of DBM at the household level across 22 SSA countries using recent nationally representative Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 103,497 mother-child under-five pairs. Outcomes inc…

  • The shadow of violence

    Open AccessAlex Bawuah, Linus Baatiema et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Despite increasing efforts to improve reproductive health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), disparities persist in the use of modern contraceptives and maternal health services (MHS). Evidence suggests that exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) may influence women’s health-seeking behaviours, yet few studies have examined this relationship across multiple SSA countries. Using cross-sectional data from the most recent Demographic and Hea…

  • Lived experiences of families of meningitis patients and survivors in the Upper West Region of Ghana

    Open AccessDamien Punguyire, Ambrose Naawa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Meningitis is a fatal condition and survivors often face long-term effects and often burdened their families. It is therefore important to understand how families cope with the aftermath of the infection. This study examined the experiences of families of meningitis patients and survivors in Ghana’s Upper West Region to support public health interventions. The researchers employed a Giorgi phenomenological qualitative method to conduct the study …

  • Does healthcare decision-making capacity affect women’s justification of sexual violence? The situation of sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessLinus Baatiema, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2023

    Sexual violence against women is commonly justified in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) despite international commitments to halt it. This study investigated the association between healthcare decision-making capacity and the justification of sexual violence among women in SSA. We used current datasets of 30 sub-Saharan African countries published between January 2010 and December 2018. The sample included 259,885 women who were in sexual unions. We extr…

  • Rural-urban variation in hypertension among women in Ghana

    Open AccessFrancis Appiah, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Women from urban and rural areas shed similar chance to be hypertensive in Ghana. Therefore, the health sector needs to target women from both areas of residence (rural/urban) when designing their programmes that are intended to modify women's lifestyle in order to reduce their risks of hypertension. Other categories of women that need to be prioritised to avert hypertension are those who are heading towards the end of their reproductive age, ric…

  • Ghanaian women’s knowledge on whether malaria treatment is covered by the national health insurance

    Open AccessEdward Kwabena Ameyaw, Linus Baatiema et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    This study has shown that individual, community and regional level factors affect women's knowledge on whether NHIS covers malaria treatment or not. As knowledge that malaria treatment is covered by NHIS may increase use of malaria prevention and treatment services in health facilities, we recommend that the Ghana Health Service intensifies community level education and awareness creation efforts, targeted at women among whom awareness levels are…

  • Effect of sexual violence on planned, mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessBright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2020

    Sexual violence plays a key role in mistimed and unwanted pregnancies. It is, therefore, prudent to develop various assessment techniques to detect sexual violence in unions and refer victims to appropriate services to diminish the risk of mistimed and unwanted pregnancies. Our findings provide a basis for developing and implementing policies and interventions aimed at reducing mistimed and unwanted pregnancies

  • Trends and determinants of contraceptive use among female adolescents in Ghana

    Open AccessFrancis Appiah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2020

    These findings imply that intensifying educational messages on contraceptive use among adolescents using various newspapers and television stations to convey the messages and emphasizing the importance of using modern contraceptive is worthwhile

  • Women’s healthcare decision-making capacity and HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessAbdul-Aziz Seidu, Joseph Kojo Oduro et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    Sub-Saharan African countries intending to improve HIV testing need to incorporate women's healthcare decision-making capacity strategies. These strategies can include education and counselling. This is essential because our study indicates that the capacity of women to make healthcare decisions has an association with decision to test for their HIV status

  • Barriers to accessing healthcare among women in Ghana

    Open AccessAbdul-Aziz Seidu, Eugene Kofuor Maafo Darteh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    This study shows that individual and contextual factors are significant in predicting barriers in healthcare access in Ghana. The factors identified include age, marital status, employment, health insurance coverage, frequency of listening to radio, frequency of watching television, wealth status, and region of residence. These findings highlight the need to pay critical attention to these factors in order to achieve the Sustainable Development G…

  • An ecological approach to understanding stroke experience and access to rehabilitation services in Ghana

    Open AccessLeonard Baatiema, Olutobi Sanuade et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2020Referencias: 1

    Despite a growing burden of stroke in low-middle-income countries, research on patient's experiences and access to rehabilitation services remains limited. This study explores the experiences of stroke patients in relation to access and use of stroke rehabilitation services, coping strategies and strategies to improve care in Ghana. A cross-sectional study was conducted. A total of 136 adult stroke patients hospitalised and subsequently discharge…

  • Ecological zone and symptoms of acute respiratory infection among children under five in Ghana

    Open AccessAbdul-Aziz Seidu, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2019

    Since 1993, evidence suggest that a significant portion of Ghanaian under-five children have suffered from Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI). This study sought to examine the prevalence of ARI symptoms among under-fives across ecological zones as well as childhood and maternal factors associated with ARI between 1993 and 2014. We used data from Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys (1993-2014). The study sample included women of reproductive age w…