Winfred Avogo
Biographic Data
| ID | 3573274 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Winfred Avogo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Winfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Avogo |
| SIGNATURE | AVOGO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3945-1488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intergenerational hypertension transmission before and after South Africa's democratic transition
Political liberation dismantled apartheid's legal structures but failed to interrupt intergenerational cardiovascular transmission. The "Born Free" generation inherits hypertension vulnerability at rates indistinguishable from apartheid-era cohorts despite improved socioeconomic conditions. This persistence suggests that biological embedding mechanisms transcend political change, requiring interventions that target both structural conditions and …
Linking Women’s Empowerment and Community Contexts To Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is experienced by over one-third of women in sub-Saharan Africa, yet evidence on the associations between women’s empowerment, community contexts, and IPV risk remains limited and inconsistent. This study examines the association between individual empowerment and community socioeconomic conditions and different forms of IPV across West Africa, using the Survey-based Women’s Empowerment Index. Demographic and Healt…
Intersectional Life Course Inequalities in Cardiovascular Health in Post-Apartheid South Africa
These findings advance life course epidemiology by demonstrating that historical structural violence creates lasting health consequences through two pathways: biological embedding, which produces stable physiological alterations, and psychosocial adaptation, which affects health perceptions. Intersectionality theory gains empirical support through evidence that multiple disadvantaged systems create qualitatively different health experiences requi…
Community characteristics and the risk of non-communicable diseases in Ghana
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are rising quickly in low- and middle- income countries. In Ghana, chronic diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality, yet data and the evidence- base for awareness, detection, and management of NCDs are lacking. Using data from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), the first national study with information on hypertension and other risk factors, we examine the correlates and community cha…
Men’s Migration, Women’s Personal Networks, and Responses to HIV/Aids in Mozambique
This study brings together the literature on social network approaches to social capital and health and on migration and HIV risks to examine how non-migrating wives of labor migrants use their personal networks to cope with perceived risks of HIV infection in rural southern Mozambique. Using data from a 2006 survey of 1,680 women and their dyadic interactions, we compare the composition of personal networks, HIV/AIDS communication, and preventiv…
Self-Esteem Among Young Adults
Forced migration and child health and mortality in Angola
Men’s Social Networks and Contraception in Ghana
In this paper, longitudinal data from northern Ghana is used to assess the effects of encouragement to use family planning that men receive from their personal network partners on the adoption of modern contraception by their wives. The study tests a conceptual model that, in addition to the effect of men’s network encouragement, incorporates the effect of encouragement to use family planning that women receive from their respective network partn…
Childbearing in Crisis
This study examines the short- and long-term effects of war-induced and war-unrelated migration on fertility outcomes using data from two peri-urban municipalities of Greater Luanda in Angola. In the short term, results from multi-level discrete-time logistic regression models indicate that net of other factors, war-unrelated migration is associated with a lower probability of birth than war-induced migration in a given year. Similar results are …
Forced Migration and HIV/Aids Risks in Angola
This study examines HIV/AIDS‐related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour of forced migrants in Luanda, Angola by comparing them with those of voluntary migrants and long‐time city residents. The study uses data from a survey of 1081 men and women conducted in 2004 in two suburban municipalities of Luanda. One of the municipalities has a large share and the other a small share of the forced migrant population. The analysis detects differences betw…
Self-Esteem Among Young Adults
Forced migration and child health and mortality in Angola
Forced Migration and HIV/Aids Risks in Angola
This study examines HIV/AIDS‐related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour of forced migrants in Luanda, Angola by comparing them with those of voluntary migrants and long‐time city residents. The study uses data from a survey of 1081 men and women conducted in 2004 in two suburban municipalities of Luanda. One of the municipalities has a large share and the other a small share of the forced migrant population. The analysis detects differences betw…
Men’s Social Networks and Contraception in Ghana
In this paper, longitudinal data from northern Ghana is used to assess the effects of encouragement to use family planning that men receive from their personal network partners on the adoption of modern contraception by their wives. The study tests a conceptual model that, in addition to the effect of men’s network encouragement, incorporates the effect of encouragement to use family planning that women receive from their respective network partn…
Childbearing in Crisis
This study examines the short- and long-term effects of war-induced and war-unrelated migration on fertility outcomes using data from two peri-urban municipalities of Greater Luanda in Angola. In the short term, results from multi-level discrete-time logistic regression models indicate that net of other factors, war-unrelated migration is associated with a lower probability of birth than war-induced migration in a given year. Similar results are …
Forced Migration and HIV/Aids Risks in Angola
This study examines HIV/AIDS‐related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour of forced migrants in Luanda, Angola by comparing them with those of voluntary migrants and long‐time city residents. The study uses data from a survey of 1081 men and women conducted in 2004 in two suburban municipalities of Luanda. One of the municipalities has a large share and the other a small share of the forced migrant population. The analysis detects differences betw…
Forced migration and child health and mortality in Angola
Men’s Migration, Women’s Personal Networks, and Responses to HIV/Aids in Mozambique
This study brings together the literature on social network approaches to social capital and health and on migration and HIV risks to examine how non-migrating wives of labor migrants use their personal networks to cope with perceived risks of HIV infection in rural southern Mozambique. Using data from a 2006 survey of 1,680 women and their dyadic interactions, we compare the composition of personal networks, HIV/AIDS communication, and preventiv…
Self-Esteem Among Young Adults
Community characteristics and the risk of non-communicable diseases in Ghana
Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) are rising quickly in low- and middle- income countries. In Ghana, chronic diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality, yet data and the evidence- base for awareness, detection, and management of NCDs are lacking. Using data from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey (GDHS), the first national study with information on hypertension and other risk factors, we examine the correlates and community cha…
Intersectional Life Course Inequalities in Cardiovascular Health in Post-Apartheid South Africa
These findings advance life course epidemiology by demonstrating that historical structural violence creates lasting health consequences through two pathways: biological embedding, which produces stable physiological alterations, and psychosocial adaptation, which affects health perceptions. Intersectionality theory gains empirical support through evidence that multiple disadvantaged systems create qualitatively different health experiences requi…
Intergenerational hypertension transmission before and after South Africa's democratic transition
Political liberation dismantled apartheid's legal structures but failed to interrupt intergenerational cardiovascular transmission. The "Born Free" generation inherits hypertension vulnerability at rates indistinguishable from apartheid-era cohorts despite improved socioeconomic conditions. This persistence suggests that biological embedding mechanisms transcend political change, requiring interventions that target both structural conditions and …
Linking Women’s Empowerment and Community Contexts To Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is experienced by over one-third of women in sub-Saharan Africa, yet evidence on the associations between women’s empowerment, community contexts, and IPV risk remains limited and inconsistent. This study examines the association between individual empowerment and community socioeconomic conditions and different forms of IPV across West Africa, using the Survey-based Women’s Empowerment Index. Demographic and Healt…
Sociology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Demography (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (3 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (3 works) · Psychological intervention (3 works)