Mawuli Komla Kushitor

Biographic Data

ID6621200
NAMEMawuli Komla Kushitor
GIVEN NAMESMawuli Komla
FAMILY NAMEKushitor
SIGNATUREKUSHITOR M K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Health and Allied Sciences
ORCID0000-0001-8668-7162
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Non-communicable diseases, psychosocial wellbeing, and quality of life in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessKafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Irene Akwo Kretchy et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Diabetes, hypertension and obesity were associated with reduced QoL in Ga Mashie, Ghana. Further studies are needed to understand factors that influence health-related QoL among adults with NCDs, how these change over time, and to identify potential coping mechanisms that may influence this association

  • Changes in food quality and habits in urban Ghana

    Open AccessSandra Boatemaa Kushitor, Lydia Okoibhole et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Respondents reported a shift from home cooking and communal meals toward eating out-of-home meals. The current dietary habits reflect a hybrid of modern foods with traditional foods. Food insecurity is high, and their diets provide little protection against chronic non-communicable diseases. This limits opportunities to move towards healthy diets and improved health outcomes as envisioned in the Agenda 2030

  • Community perspectives on the built environment, community stress, and the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessMawuli Komla Kushitor, Haim Yacobi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The growing burden of diabetes and other non-communicable diseases in Africa demands greater understanding of the contextual drivers of risk factors, including the built environment. Cognitive Mapping (CM) is a participatory research approach that allows community members to visualise their environmental context through drawing. The maps express in visual form the situated knowledge of the environment from local perceptions of daily experiences. …

  • Sex differences in social connectedness, health, and quality of life

    Open AccessRolando Leiva-Granados, Carlos S Grijalva-Eternod et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our study underscores the importance of examining sex-specific patterns in the relationships between social connectedness, QoL and health outcomes. Social connections appear to have both beneficial and non-beneficial effects, especially among women, although the magnitude of these effects was often small. This may reflect complex social dynamics shaped by cultural and traditional roles that differ by sex. Further research is needed to better unde…

  • Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (Care) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana

    Open AccessLeonard Baatiema, Daniel Llywelyn Strachan et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Diabetes remains a major, global clinical and public health threat with consistent rises in prevalence around the world over the past four decades. Two-thirds of the projected increases in global diabetes prevalence to 2045 are expected to come from low- and middle-income countries, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana is typical of this trend. However, there are gaps in evidence regarding the appropriate development of interventions and …

  • The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (Care) diabetes project

    Open AccessSwaib A Lule, Sandra Boatemaa Kushitor et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    Diabetes is estimated to affect between 3.3% and 8.3% of adults in Ghana, and prevalence is expected to rise. The lack of cost-effective diabetes prevention programmes designed specifically for the Ghanaian population warrants urgent attention. The Contextual Awareness, Response and Evaluation (CARE): Diabetes Project in Ghana is a mixed methods study that aims to understand diabetes in the Ga Mashie area of Accra, identify opportunities for comm…

  • Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana

    Open AccessIrene Akwo Kretchy, Lydia Okoibhole et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2022

    BACKGROUND: Community health participation is an essential tool in health research and management where community members, researchers and other relevant stakeholders contribute to the decision-making processes. Though community participation processes can be complex and challenging, evidence from previous studies have reported significant value of engaging with community in community health projects. OBJECTIVE: To identify the nature and extent …

  • Evaluating health service coverage in Ghana’s Volta Region using a modified Tanahashi model

    Open AccessMallory C Sheff, Ayaga A Bawah et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    Background: The United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals have reaffirmed the international community’s commitment to maternal, newborn, and child health, with further investments in achieving quality essential service coverage and financial protection for all.Objective: Using a modified version of the 1978 Tanahashi model as an analytical framework for measuring and assessing health service coverage, this paper aims to examine the system…

  • Community perceptions of universal health coverage in eight districts of the Northern and Volta regions of Ghana

    Open AccessKalifa J Wright, Adriana A E Biney et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    Background: Ever since Ghana embraced the 1978 Alma-Ata Declaration, it has consigned priority to achieving ‘Health for All.’ The Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) Initiative was established to close gaps in geographic access to services and health equity. CHPS is Ghana’s flagship Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Initiative and will soon completely cover the country with community-located services.Objectives: This paper aims to i…

  • Building cardiovascular disease competence in an urban poor Ghanaian community

    Open AccessAma De-Graft Aikins, Mawuli Komla Kushitor et al.ARTICLEJournal of Community & Applied…2020Cited by: 3References: 7

    This paper describes conceptual, methodological, and practical insights from a longitudinal social psychological project that aims to build cardiovascular disease (CVD) competence in a poor community in Accra, Ghana's capital. Informed by a social psychology of participation approach, mixed method data included qualitative interviews and household surveys from over 500 community members, including people living with diabetes, hypertension, and st…

  • Hypertension awareness, treatment and control in Ghana

    Olutobi Adekunle Sanuade, Raphael Baffour Awuah et al.ARTICLEEthnicity and Health2018

    Objective: This study assessed the rates of hypertension awareness, treatment and control as well as the socio-economic and demographic correlates in Ghana. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. We used wave 1 of the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) conducted between 2007and 2008. The sample was 5526 respondents aged 18 years and above. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the characteris…

  • Chronic non-communicable diseases and the challenge of universal health coverage

    Open AccessAma De-Graft Aikins, Mawuli Komla Kushitor et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2014

    We consider these findings in the context of the primary healthcare system and discuss the challenges and opportunities for strengthening health systems in low and middle-income countries