Lydia Okoibhole

Datos Biográficos

ID7775547
NOMBRELydia Okoibhole
NOMBRESLydia
APELLIDOOkoibhole
FIRMAOKOIBHOLE L
AFILIACIONESUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0002-8349-5963
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • 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. …

  • The cascade of hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control in urban-poor communities in Accra, Ghana

    Open AccessOlutobi Adekunle Sanuade, Leonard Baatiema et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Hypertension is the leading modifiable risk factor for morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular diseases and poses a significant health challenge in low- and middle-income settings, including in sub-Saharan Africa. We set out to: (1) examine the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension, and their associated factors, and (2) determine the prevalence of pre-hypertension and its associated factors in an urban poor setting in G…

  • 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 …