Felix Assah

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ID6173310
NOMBREFelix Assah
NOMBRESFelix
APELLIDOAssah
FIRMAASSAH F
AFILIACIONESUniversité de Yaoundé I
ORCID0000-0003-3301-6028
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS21
TOTAL DE CITAS1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR21
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Urban climate–NCD syndemics in LMICs

    Open AccessMeelan Thondoo, Feyisayo A Odunitan-Wayas et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Climate change poses a major threat to global health. Its synergistic interaction with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), responsible for 74% of global deaths, demands urgent, integrated action. OBJECTIVES: This study critically examines how transdisciplinary approaches can uncover and address structural determinants underpinning climate change-NCD syndemic hazards, while accounting for power dynamics through meaningful stakeholder eng…

  • Community resilience to climate change and non-communicable disease vulnerability in Yaoundé, Cameroon

    Open AccessFelix Assah, Blanche Nfondoh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Climate change and rapid urbanisation have intensified flood risk in Global South cities, exacerbating health inequities, especially through non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, little is known about how community resilience strategies to key climate change consequences like flooding affect NCD risk in rapidly growing cities of the Global South. Methods: We used a Community-Based System Dynamics (CBSD) approach to examine flood …

  • Collective learning for resilience in Global South cities

    Open AccessLidia Maria De Oliveira Morais, Elis Mina Seraya Borde et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Cities in the Global South face escalating climate change challenges, including extreme weather events that disproportionately affect marginalized populations and exacerbate health risks, such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Climate resilience, defined as the capacity to adapt and recover from climate-related events, requires intersectoral collaboration between governments and civil society. Methods: This study employs a Commun…

  • Urban public space initiatives and health in Africa

    Open AccessMeelan Thondoo, Ebele Mogo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Public space initiatives (PSIs) in African cities can significantly promote health and social well-being, yet their implementation and impact are unknown across the continent. There is a substantial gap in literature on PSIs in African countries, with most studies concentrated in wealthier cities and lacking comprehensive assessments of long-term health impacts. The objective of this study was to synthesise evidence on the typology, location, fea…

  • Clustering of diet and physical activity behaviours in adolescents across home and school area-level deprivation in Cameroon, South Africa, and Jamaica

    Open AccessYves Wasnyo, Lambed Tatah et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    An inverse clustering of sedentary behaviour duration and eating habits remained consistent across different strata for at least two sites, suggesting that interventions to reduce sedentary time could have a ripple effect on multiple NCD risk factors in adolescence

  • Shared correlates of maternal and childhood overweight in Cameroon

    Open AccessLambed Tatah, Luchuo Engelbert Bain et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    Besides religion, which affects both mothers and childhood overweight (with the Muslim faith being protective), much of childhood overweight is not directly explained by many of the observed determinants of maternal overweight. These determinants are likely to influence childhood overweight indirectly through maternal overweight. Extending this analysis to include unobserved correlates such as physical activity, dietary, and genetic characteristi…

  • Comparing travel behaviour characteristics and correlates between large and small Kenyan cities (Nairobi versus Kisumu)

    Open AccessLambed Tatah, Lara Foley et al.ARTICLEJournal of Transport Geography2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    Understanding urban travel behaviour is crucial for planning healthy and sustainable cities. Africa is urbanising at one of the fastest rates in the world and urgently needs this knowledge. However, the data and literature on urban travel behaviour, their correlates, and their variation across African cities are limited. We aimed to describe and compare travel behaviour characteristics and correlates of two Kenyan cities (Nairobi and Kisumu). We …

  • Socioeconomic and gendered inequities in travel behaviour in Africa

    Open AccessLara Foley, Anna Brugulat-Panés et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2022

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019

    Open AccessBin Zhou, Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2021

    BACKGROUND: Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, treatment, and control from 1990 to 2019 for 200 countries and territories. METHODS: We used data from 1990 to 2019 on people aged 30-79 years from population-representative studies with measurement of blood pressure and data on blo…

  • Analysis of Cameroon’s Sectoral Policies on Physical Activity for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention

    Open AccessLambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Physical inactivity is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), urbanisation and sedentary living are rapidly growing in tandem. Increasing active living requires the participation of multiple sectors, yet it is unclear whether physical activity (PA)-relevant sectors in LMICs are prioritising PA. We investigated to what extent sectors that influence PA explicitly integrate it in their policies…

  • Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories

    Open AccessAndrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea Rodriguez‐Martinez et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

    BACKGROUND: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. METHODS: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors collated by the Non-Communicable Disease …

  • The global diet and activity research (GDAR) network

    Open AccessTolu Oni, Felix Assah et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

  • Implications of Covid-19 control measures for diet and physical activity, and lessons for addressing other pandemics facing rapidly urbanising countries

    Open AccessTolu Oni, Lisa K Micklesfield et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    At the time of writing, it is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic will play out in rapidly urbanising regions of the world. In these regions, the realities of large overcrowded informal settlements, a high burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases, as well as malnutrition and precarity of livelihoods, have raised added concerns about the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in these contexts. COVID-19 infection control measures have b…

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Open AccessNCD Risk Factor Collaboration, Honor Bixby et al.ARTICLENature2019

    Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities 1,2 . This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most important drivers of the global rise in obesity 3–6 . Here we use 2,009 population-based studies, with measurements of height and weight in more than 112 million adults, to report national, regional and global trends in mean B…

  • Two decades of tobacco use prevention and control policies in Cameroon

    Open AccessClarisse Mapa-Tassou, Cécile Renée Bonono et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Despite actions made by the Government, there is no real political will to control tobacco use in Cameroon. Significant shortcomings still exist in developing and/or implementing comprehensive tobacco use and prevention policies. These findings highlight major gaps as well as opportunities that can be harnessed to improve tobacco control in Cameroon

  • Influence of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control on tobacco legislation and policies in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJennifer P Wisdom, Pamela A Juma et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control provided an unprecedented opportunity for global action against the public health effects of tobacco including non-communicable diseases. Reviewing how six sub-Saharan countries responded to the treaty to mobilize resources and implement tobacco control policies has provided insight for how to utilise international regulations and commitments to accelerate policy impact on the prevention of non-comm…

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015

    Open AccessBin Zhou, James Bentham et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Raised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, and number of people with, raised blood pressure, defined as systolic blood pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. METHODS: For this analysis, we pooled national, subnational, or comm…

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016

    Open AccessLeandra Abarca-Gómez, Ziad Abdeen et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2017

    BACKGROUND: Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. METHODS: We pooled 2416 population-based studies with measurements of height…

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980

    Open AccessBin Zhou, B Zhou et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2016

    BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are affecting the number of adults with diabetes. METHODS: We pooled data from population-ba…

  • Risk factors of impaired fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes in Yaoundé, Cameroon

    Open AccessClément Kufe, Clement Nyuyki Kufe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2015

    For successful primary prevention of T2D in the general population in Cameroon tailored efforts to address obesity, particularly abdominal obesity, and associated life-style factors are warranted

  • Patterns and correlates of objectively measured free-living physical activity in adults in rural and urban Cameroon

    Open AccessFelix Assah, Jean Claude Mbanya et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015Referencias: 36

    BACKGROUND: Urbanisation in sub-Saharan Africa is changing lifestyles and raising non-communicable disease burden. Understanding the underlying pattern of physical activity and its correlates may inform preventive interventions. We examined correlates of objectively-measured physical activity in rural and urban Cameroon. METHODS: Participants were 544 adults resident in rural (W-156, M-89) or urban (W-189, M-110) regions. Physical activity was me…