Joseph R Oppong
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 225892 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph R Oppong |
| PRENOMES | Joseph R |
| SOBRENOME | Oppong |
| ASSINATURA | OPPONG J R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1042-7564 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Structural and Environmental Determinants of Irregular Migrant Deaths
Irregular migration has become a major humanitarian challenge, with thousands of preventable deaths occurring annually along global migration routes. Using data from the International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project, this study analyzes 8,819 migration-related incidents resulting in 24,078 irregular migrant deaths worldwide between 2014 and 2021. Examining both total fatalities and deaths per incident, the analysis reveals t…
Grappling with complexity and globalization in disease ecology. A commentary on Michael Emch and Varun Goel
Michael Emch and Varun Goel have provided a fine and timely review of the history and recent developments in the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography based on their presentation at the July 2024 International Medical Geography Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. While the treatise is comprehensive, space limits alone preclude a thorough examination of all innovation in disease ecology. This commentary responds to Emch and Goel by …
Urban greenness and hypertension among Ghanaian adults
There is a lack of studies in sub-Saharan African countries, specifically Ghana, demonstrating the relationship between greenness and hypertension. We use Greenness (Enhanced Vegetation Index, EVI) data to examine its association on hypertension among Ghanaian adults in urban areas. Participants with higher exposure to greenness was significantly associated with lower odds of hypertension OR: 0.63 (95% CI:0.41–0.95) than participants with low lev…
Mapping Health Fragility and Vulnerability in Air Pollution–Monitoring Networks in Dallas–Fort Worth
Environmental air pollution remains a major contributor to negative health outcomes and mortality, but the relationship between socially vulnerable populations and air pollution is not well understood. Although air pollution potentially affects everyone, the combination of underlying health, socioeconomic, and demographic factors exacerbate the impact for socially vulnerable population groups, and the United States Clean Air Act (CAA) describes a…
Political Ecology of Disease and Illness
Using ecological disease maps and population‐level correlations to explain spatial variations in sickness and experience of disease produces oversimplistic, partial, and unsatisfactory results. Political ecology overcomes this limitation by including the broad social, economic, and historical context, geographic scale, and human–environment interactions. This entry illustrates the power of the political ecology framework for understanding the geo…
Africa’s innovation and creative response to Covid-19
Rather than decimation and devastation, COVID-19 appears to reveal Africa's innovation and resourcefulness in fighting disease, but this has largely escaped scholarship. Using various search engines, keywords and phrases, we conducted a scoping review of common key innovations and strategies Africa's 54 countries deployed to fight COVID-19. Our results show that African countries have used old tools and approaches in new ways, developed and adapt…
Racial/Ethnic Heterogeneity and Rural-Urban Disparity of Covid-19 Case Fatality Ratio in the USA
Surface ozone monitoring and policy
The African Covid-19 anomaly
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph R. OppongJoseph R. Oppong is a Professor of Geography and Academic Associate Dean of The Robert Toulouse Graduate School at the University of North Texas, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1992. He is also an adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at the University of North Texas Health Sciences C…
Disease and Illness, Political Ecology of
This entry offers a definition of the political ecology framework and its application to disease ecology. Political ecology is an analytical social theory framework that focuses on the relationships between political, economic, and social factors and environmental and health issues. The central elements of this framework include context, history, scale, and human agency. The argument is that human–environment relations at local, regional, and glo…
Mapping late testers for HIV in Texas
HIV/Aids, gender, agency and empowerment issues in Africa
Sexual risk behavior among people living with HIV/Aids in Togo
The Geography of Landmines and Implications for Health and Disease in Africa
With more than 37 million landmines in at least nineteen countries, no region suffers more than Africa from the presence of landmines. Angola alone has an estimated 15 million landmines and an amputee population of 70,000, the highest rate in the world. Multiple conflicts throughout the continent produce new minefields every day, denying people access to critical resources and severely obstructing healthcare delivery. This paper examines the heal…
Gender Differences in an Emerging Health Profession
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Gender Differences in an Emerging Health Profession
The analysis in this paper is based on a sample of 517 itinerant drug vendors (IDVs) who were interviewed in Ghana during the summer of 1997. IDVs are health care entrepreneurs who provide inexpensive services in medically underserved areas. We describe the differences between men and women IDVs in order to assess 1) their potential to improve health services and 2) the possibility that sex segregation may be lessened in this innovative new profe…
In the Blood - Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race
The refugee crisis in Africa and implications for health and disease
Aids in Africa
Perceived quality of life in a centre-periphery framework
The refugee crisis in Africa and implications for health and disease
Perceived quality of life in a centre-periphery framework
Sexual risk behavior among people living with HIV/Aids in Togo
HIV/Aids, gender, agency and empowerment issues in Africa
The Geography of Landmines and Implications for Health and Disease in Africa
With more than 37 million landmines in at least nineteen countries, no region suffers more than Africa from the presence of landmines. Angola alone has an estimated 15 million landmines and an amputee population of 70,000, the highest rate in the world. Multiple conflicts throughout the continent produce new minefields every day, denying people access to critical resources and severely obstructing healthcare delivery. This paper examines the heal…
In the Blood - Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race
Grappling with complexity and globalization in disease ecology. A commentary on Michael Emch and Varun Goel
Michael Emch and Varun Goel have provided a fine and timely review of the history and recent developments in the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography based on their presentation at the July 2024 International Medical Geography Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. While the treatise is comprehensive, space limits alone preclude a thorough examination of all innovation in disease ecology. This commentary responds to Emch and Goel by …
Perceived quality of life in a centre-periphery framework
Aids in Africa
The refugee crisis in Africa and implications for health and disease
In the Blood - Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race
Gender Differences in an Emerging Health Profession
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Gender Differences in an Emerging Health Profession
The analysis in this paper is based on a sample of 517 itinerant drug vendors (IDVs) who were interviewed in Ghana during the summer of 1997. IDVs are health care entrepreneurs who provide inexpensive services in medically underserved areas. We describe the differences between men and women IDVs in order to assess 1) their potential to improve health services and 2) the possibility that sex segregation may be lessened in this innovative new profe…
The Geography of Landmines and Implications for Health and Disease in Africa
With more than 37 million landmines in at least nineteen countries, no region suffers more than Africa from the presence of landmines. Angola alone has an estimated 15 million landmines and an amputee population of 70,000, the highest rate in the world. Multiple conflicts throughout the continent produce new minefields every day, denying people access to critical resources and severely obstructing healthcare delivery. This paper examines the heal…
HIV/Aids, gender, agency and empowerment issues in Africa
Sexual risk behavior among people living with HIV/Aids in Togo
Mapping late testers for HIV in Texas
Disease and Illness, Political Ecology of
This entry offers a definition of the political ecology framework and its application to disease ecology. Political ecology is an analytical social theory framework that focuses on the relationships between political, economic, and social factors and environmental and health issues. The central elements of this framework include context, history, scale, and human agency. The argument is that human–environment relations at local, regional, and glo…
The African Covid-19 anomaly
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoseph R. OppongJoseph R. Oppong is a Professor of Geography and Academic Associate Dean of The Robert Toulouse Graduate School at the University of North Texas, where he has been teaching and doing research since 1992. He is also an adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at the University of North Texas Health Sciences C…
Surface ozone monitoring and policy
Political Ecology of Disease and Illness
Using ecological disease maps and population‐level correlations to explain spatial variations in sickness and experience of disease produces oversimplistic, partial, and unsatisfactory results. Political ecology overcomes this limitation by including the broad social, economic, and historical context, geographic scale, and human–environment interactions. This entry illustrates the power of the political ecology framework for understanding the geo…
Africa’s innovation and creative response to Covid-19
Rather than decimation and devastation, COVID-19 appears to reveal Africa's innovation and resourcefulness in fighting disease, but this has largely escaped scholarship. Using various search engines, keywords and phrases, we conducted a scoping review of common key innovations and strategies Africa's 54 countries deployed to fight COVID-19. Our results show that African countries have used old tools and approaches in new ways, developed and adapt…
Racial/Ethnic Heterogeneity and Rural-Urban Disparity of Covid-19 Case Fatality Ratio in the USA
Urban greenness and hypertension among Ghanaian adults
There is a lack of studies in sub-Saharan African countries, specifically Ghana, demonstrating the relationship between greenness and hypertension. We use Greenness (Enhanced Vegetation Index, EVI) data to examine its association on hypertension among Ghanaian adults in urban areas. Participants with higher exposure to greenness was significantly associated with lower odds of hypertension OR: 0.63 (95% CI:0.41–0.95) than participants with low lev…
Mapping Health Fragility and Vulnerability in Air Pollution–Monitoring Networks in Dallas–Fort Worth
Environmental air pollution remains a major contributor to negative health outcomes and mortality, but the relationship between socially vulnerable populations and air pollution is not well understood. Although air pollution potentially affects everyone, the combination of underlying health, socioeconomic, and demographic factors exacerbate the impact for socially vulnerable population groups, and the United States Clean Air Act (CAA) describes a…
Grappling with complexity and globalization in disease ecology. A commentary on Michael Emch and Varun Goel
Michael Emch and Varun Goel have provided a fine and timely review of the history and recent developments in the disease ecology tradition of health and medical geography based on their presentation at the July 2024 International Medical Geography Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia. While the treatise is comprehensive, space limits alone preclude a thorough examination of all innovation in disease ecology. This commentary responds to Emch and Goel by …
Structural and Environmental Determinants of Irregular Migrant Deaths
Irregular migration has become a major humanitarian challenge, with thousands of preventable deaths occurring annually along global migration routes. Using data from the International Organization for Migration’s Missing Migrants Project, this study analyzes 8,819 migration-related incidents resulting in 24,078 irregular migrant deaths worldwide between 2014 and 2021. Examining both total fatalities and deaths per incident, the analysis reveals t…
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