Richard Gyan Aboagye

Dados Biográficos

ID6648339
NOMERichard Gyan Aboagye
PRENOMESRichard Gyan
SOBRENOMEAboagye
ASSINATURAABOAGYE R G
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Health and Allied Sciences
ORCID0000-0002-3498-2909
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR34
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2021
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Women’s empowerment and experience of marital control in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRichard Gyan Aboagye, Augustus Osborne et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: This study examined the association between women's empowerment (social independence, decision-making, and attitudes to violence) and experience of marital control in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: A weighted sample of 82,208 was extracted from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. We used multinomial and multivariable binary logistic regression analyses to examine the associat…

  • Intimate partner violence during pregnancy in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRichard Gyan Aboagye, Husna Razee et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health2026

    BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) has health and human rights implications for its victim-survivors. During pregnancy, IPV can be associated with several morbidities, injuries, and mortality among women and their foetuses. Identifying the prevalence and factors associated with IPV during pregnancy is crucial towards developing preventive strategies to curb its occurrence. This review aims to estimate the prevalence of IPV during pregnan…

  • Trends and factors contributing to changes in childhood stunting in Bangladesh from 2012 to 2019

    Open AccessSatyajit Kundu, Richard Gyan Aboagye et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Although the prevalence of childhood stunting has reduced in Bangladesh over time, it is still considered a major public health issue. While research has determined the risk factors for childhood stunting in Bangladesh, the factors that lead to reductions in stunting have received very little attention. Hence, we examined the factors contributing to the changes in childhood stunting over time in Bangladesh using a decomposition approach. In this …

  • Burden of hemoglobinopathies and hemolytic anemias in the World Health Organization African region, 2000–2021

    Open AccessGBD Hemoglobinopathies and Hemolytic Anemias Collaborators, Temitope Tabitha…ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Hemoglobinopathies and hemolytic anemias (HHA) are genetic blood disorders associated with diverse clinical complications, affecting an estimated 2.1 billion people worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) African Region accounts for approximately 425.8 million individuals, or 20% of the global HHA prevalence, yet comprehensive assessments of this burden have been lacking. We present the first systematic analysis of HHA burden in the WHO Af…

  • Assessing the socioeconomic inequalities in cervical cancer screening in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJoshua Okyere, Richard Gyan Aboagye et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025

    Cervical cancer remains one of the most diagnosed diseases among women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite global efforts to eliminate this disease, the incidence rate in SSA continues to rise due to barriers to screening, vaccination, and treatment access. Numerous studies have examined the barriers women face in accessing cervical cancer screening, but little has been reported about inequality. The few available studies are limited to single c…

  • Cervical cancer screening uptake in Côte d’Ivoire

    Open AccessLeticia Akua Adzigbli, Robert Kokou Dowou et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Cervical cancer screening uptake was low in Côte d'Ivoire. To achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3, health authorities, policymakers, and other stakeholders could implement strategies to scale up uptake. The identified associated factors could aid in the development of cervical cancer screening interventions

  • Full vaccination coverage for children aged 12–23 months in Madagascar

    Open AccessFlorence Gyembuzie Wongnaah, Richard Gyan Aboagye et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Full childhood vaccination coverage is low in Madagascar. Factors identified to be associated with vaccination coverage were maternal age, education, place of delivery, working status, antenatal care visits, and media access. Collaboration between the Ministry of Health and local authorities is recommended in Madagascar to improve vaccination coverage, promote antenatal care, clean delivery practices and access to skilled birth attendants, raise …

  • Prevalence and factors associated with knowledge of HIV Self-Test kit and HIV-Self Testing among Ghanaian women

    Open AccessTimothy Yao Akweh, Eunice Adoku et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Our study revealed a shallow knowledge of HIV Self-Testing Kit as well as a low prevalence of HIV self-testing among women in their reproductive age in Ghana. The evidence suggests that more than nine in ten women had never undertaken an HIV self-test. The observed HIVST in this study may have implications for achieving the objectives of the HIVST policy. This may impede the achievement of SDG 3.3 which seeks to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030. Pra…

  • Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050

    Open AccessStein Emil Vollset, Hazim S Ababneh et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to policy makers and the public at large. This information can be used for policy and long-term health investment, planning, and prioritisation. We have expanded and improved upon previous forecasts produced as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) and provide a reference forecast (the most likely future), and alternativ…

  • Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Stein Emil Vollset et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses an important global health challenge in the 21st century. A previous study has quantified the global and regional burden of AMR for 2019, followed with additional publications that provided more detailed estimates for several WHO regions by country. To date, there have been no studies that produce comprehensive estimates of AMR burden across locations that encompass historical trends and future for…

  • Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMichael Brauer, Gregory A Roth et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 ri…

  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021

    Open AccessMohsen Naghavi, Kanyin Liane Ong et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…

  • Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAustin E Schumacher, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…

  • Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys), and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territor…

    Open AccessAlize J Ferrari, Damian Francesco Santomauro et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. The availability of disease burden estimates can promote evidence-based interventions that enable public health researchers, policy makers, and other professionals to im…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021

    Open AccessJaimie D Steinmetz, Katrin Seeher et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Neurology2024

    BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…

  • Women’s Sexual Autonomy and Short Birth Interval in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessJoshua Okyere, Louis Kobina Dadzie et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2024

  • Sex-related inequalities in crude and age-standardized suicide rates

    Open AccessFaustina Adoboi, Aliu Mohammed et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The suicide rate in Ghana has declined over time. Suicide is more common among older men. Inequalities in suicide rates, in both absolute and relative terms, are similar. There is a need to monitor suicide trends in Ghana, especially among older men. Moreover, the findings could serve as a basis for future studies on suicide in Ghana

  • Association between sexual violence and multiple high-risk fertility behaviours among women of reproductive age in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRichard Gyan Aboagye, Irene Esi Donkoh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    There is a positive association between sexual violence and the risk of MHRFB. Our findings underscore a need for sub-Saharan African countries to strengthen their efforts to reduce the occurrence of sexual violence in intimate partner relationships. To augment efforts and accelerate social change, sub-Saharan African countries can introduce pro-poor policies and interventions to improve the wealth status of women. Also, empowering women through …

  • Predictive ability of the health belief model in HIV testing and counselling uptake among youth aged 15–24 in La-Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality, Ghana

    Open AccessRosemond Appau, Richard Gyan Aboagye et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Health promotion interventions to increase HTC uptake should focus on heightening the perception of susceptibility to HIV, reducing the barriers to HTC uptake, and increasing the self-efficacy for HTC uptake. The interventions should also target the significant modifying factors

  • Determinants of health insurance coverage among women in Mauritania

    Open AccessRobert Kokou Dowou, Gideon Awenabisa Atanuriba et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Health insurance coverage among the women in our study was low. Achieving the SDG targets of ensuring universal health coverage and lowering maternal mortality to less than 70 deaths per 100,000 live births requires the implementation of interventions to increase health insurance coverage, taking into consideration the identified factors in the study. We recommend effective public education and awareness creation on the importance of being covere…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050

    Open AccessKanyin Liane Ong, Lauryn K Stafford et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

    BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…

  • Determinants of birth registration in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRichard Gyan Aboagye, Joshua Okyere et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: Birth registration is a crucial aspect of ensuring that children have access to their rights and benefits, including health care, education, and citizenship. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), birth registration rates remain low, with millions of children going unregistered each year. Understanding the predictors of birth registration among children in this sub-region is important for developing targeted interventions to improve registratio…

  • Sexual violence and self-reported sexually transmitted infections among women in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRichard Gyan Aboagye, Abdul-Aziz Seidu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2023

    Sexual violence has proven to be associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We examined the association between sexual violence and self-reported STIs (SR-STIs) among women in sexual unions in 15 sub-Saharan African countries. This was a cross-sectional study involving the analysis of data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) from 15 countries in SSA. A total sample of 65,392 women in sexual union…

  • Women’s autonomy in refusing risky sex in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessEugene Budu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Understanding the factors associated with women’s autonomy to refuse risky sex is imperative to inform the development of policies and interventions to reduce the risk of unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, unsafe abortion, and maternal mortality. This study sought to examine the prevalence and factors associated with women’s autonomy to refuse risky sex in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Data for the study were extracted from the …

  • Mother and newborn skin-to-skin contact in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessRichard Gyan Aboagye, Michael Boah et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    INTRODUCTION: Skin-to-skin contact is an evidence-based intervention that signifies a situation whereby a newborn is positioned directly on the mother's abdomen or chest in order for them to have direct ventral-to-ventral skin contact. The act of skin-to-skin contact begins immediately after delivery to about 23 hours afterwards. Evidence shows that skin-to-skin contact is important in improving child health outcomes. Nevertheless, evidence on it…