Koku Awoonor-Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 8520147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koku Awoonor-Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koku |
| FAMILY NAME | Awoonor-Williams |
| SIGNATURE | AWOONOR-WILLIAMS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Division of Policy Planning Monitoring and Evaluation, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Unpacking the impact of Covid-19 on child immunization
Our results indicate that the negative effect on child immunization was less severe and shorter than predicted by experts. Fear of COVID-19 and delayed vaccination campaigns had a substantial impact on childhood immunization while rising COVID-19 cases and moderate social distancing regulations did not seem to affect immunization rates
Implementation of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in rural and urban Ghana
Trial-based economic evaluation of the system-integrated activation of community health volunteers in rural Ghana
BACKGROUND: Globally, steps to revitalise programmes deploying community health workers (CHWs) on a national scale have been growing, but few economic evaluations have been done on system-integrated CHW programmes. Ghana has dual cadres of CHWs: community health officers (CHOs) and community health volunteers (CHVs). CHO plays a major role in primary health services but has suffered from chronic staff shortages. We activated CHVs in communities t…
Supervision of community health nurses in Ghana
Adequate supervision is critical to maintain the performance of health workers who provide essential maternal and child health services in low-resource areas. Supportive supervision emphasizing problem-solving, skill development and mentorship has been shown to improve the motivation and effectiveness of health workers, especially at the community level, but it is not always routinely provided. Previous studies have assessed the uptake of support…
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Supervision of community health nurses in Ghana
Adequate supervision is critical to maintain the performance of health workers who provide essential maternal and child health services in low-resource areas. Supportive supervision emphasizing problem-solving, skill development and mentorship has been shown to improve the motivation and effectiveness of health workers, especially at the community level, but it is not always routinely provided. Previous studies have assessed the uptake of support…
Implementation of the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) in rural and urban Ghana
Trial-based economic evaluation of the system-integrated activation of community health volunteers in rural Ghana
BACKGROUND: Globally, steps to revitalise programmes deploying community health workers (CHWs) on a national scale have been growing, but few economic evaluations have been done on system-integrated CHW programmes. Ghana has dual cadres of CHWs: community health officers (CHOs) and community health volunteers (CHVs). CHO plays a major role in primary health services but has suffered from chronic staff shortages. We activated CHVs in communities t…
Unpacking the impact of Covid-19 on child immunization
Our results indicate that the negative effect on child immunization was less severe and shorter than predicted by experts. Fear of COVID-19 and delayed vaccination campaigns had a substantial impact on childhood immunization while rising COVID-19 cases and moderate social distancing regulations did not seem to affect immunization rates
Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Community health (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 works) · Biostatistics (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 works) · Cost effectiveness (1 works)