Overview
In 1993, the Population Council, in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Health (MOH), launched a program at the Navrongo Health Research Center in the Upper East Region of Ghana to determine the demographic and health impact of deploying health-service nurses and volunteers to village locations. In 2002, the Council consolidated its two regional offices in Africa into a single regional office for sub-Saharan Africa located in Accra. Today, although the office no longer functions in that capacity, Ghana staff continue to provide support to Burkina Faso and Mali.
Program focus
The Council has provided research-based evidence and technical advice to the government in the development of its national health policies and programs. A major focus of the Council's work in Ghana has been on community-based delivery of reproductive health services. For example, the Navrongo experiment, called Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS), demonstrated that combining nurse services with volunteer community action is an affordable, sustainable method of accelerating attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The success of the Navrongo pilot and its replication in Ghana and around the world prompted the government to adopt community-based service delivery as the health component of its national poverty-reduction strategy.
The Council is currently leading a major program to support the Government of Ghana in reaching its MDG5 goal to improve maternal health care by 2015, with particular focus on the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality due to unsafe abortion by improving access to and quality of contraceptive services.
In addition, the Council is involved in a USAID-funded project called: Promoting Malaria Prevention and Treatment, (ProMPT). This nationwide partnership project led by URC aims to strengthen the capacity, effectiveness, and reach of Ghana's National Malaria Control Program in reducing the incidence of malaria, and to support engagement of all key actors in malaria prevention and control.
The Council is a partner in the Addressing the Balance of Burden in AIDS project. This multi-country (including Ghana) research effort in sub-Saharan Africa explores the social context around prevention, treatment, care, and mitigation of the effects of HIV and AIDS in vulnerable populations.
Some of the Council’s STEP UP research takes place in Ghana. The goal of this initiative is to improve the health of the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women, in the developing world. The consortium supports an evidence-based approach to scaling up access to high-quality family planning and safe abortion services (where available within the context of national laws).
Highlights of past and present work
- Support to GHS in reducing maternal morbidity and mortality: Provided technical assistance in training midlevel providers (midwives) in the provision of comprehensive abortion care (CAC) services, supported the country's contraceptive commodity security drive, supplied essential equipment needed for family planning and CAC services, and constructed two reproductive health Centers of Excellence to help in the further development of Ghana’s health providers.
- Demographic data for development (3-D) case studies: The Council conducted research to create a detailed portrait of access and demand for data, as well as use and sharing of data for development, policies, and procedures in Ghana. The Council’s current effort aims at promoting internal demand for data by working with key media intermediaries and local partners including the Ghana Institute of Journalism, Ghana Journalists Association, colleagues from various universities, and Google Ghana.
- Adolescent safe spaces, health, and skills for adulthood in urban Ghana: This pilot program was designed to support 12–15-year-old female adolescents in a subdistrict of Tema Metropolis in creating safe spaces where girls can develop social networks and discuss their challenges in groups that are led by adult mentors. The program promoted financial education, life skills and leadership, social capital, general health knowledge, sexual and reproductive health, and expectations and attitudes for a positive future.
- Operations research support for the MOH and GHS, including: (1) evaluating the integration of family planning into other reproductive health services in Ghana; (2) assessing and documenting the acceptability of misoprostol and mifepristone by users to inform the introduction of medical abortion; (3) supporting the introduction of new family planning technologies, including the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (IUS-LBG) as well as Sino Implant II (Zarin) in the country to increase women's choice of long-term contraceptive methods; (4) assessing the profile of abortion seekers in Ghana and their decisionmaking processes to support the GHS in program design and implementation; and (5) conducting a study to learn what female students know and think about preventing unwanted pregnancy and abortion.
- Identified barriers to use of the intrauterine device (IUD) and developed messages to encourage providers and clients to consider the IUD as a contraceptive option, with support from the MOH and GHS.
- Developed the economic evaluation and marketing skills of two major private providers of reproductive health services: the Christian Health Association of Ghana and Ghana Social Marketing Foundation Enterprises.
- Supported the strengthening of the national STI/RTI program, including private-sector involvement and service delivery improvement through policy change
- Partnered with the WHO to support a government study to review RTIs, identify client and service needs, assist in defining policy, and contribute to informed decision-making concerning RTI programs.
- Assessed and revised the national antenatal care policy to include early detection and treatment of all complications arising during pregnancy, with a particular emphasis on birth preparedness and complication readiness, prevention of malaria and PMTCT.
- Examined the effect of Ghana’s health-sector reorganization on reproductive health goals.
Projects
Addressing the Balance of Burden in AIDS (ABBA) (more)
The ABBA Research Programme Consortium is a multi-country research project in sub-Saharan Africa that explores the social context around prevention, treatment, care, and mitigation of the effects of HIV and AIDS in vulnerable populations.
(6/2006 - ongoing)
HIV care, support, and treatment; Vulnerable populations
Strengthening Evidence for Programming on Unintended Pregnancy (STEP UP) (more)
The Population Council is the coordinating partner for STEP UP, which will generate policy-relevant research to promote an evidence-based approach for improving access to family planning and safe abortion.
(1/2011 - 1/2016)
Access to contraceptive methods; Family planning services; Health care financing; People living with HIV; Safe abortion and postabortion care; Strengthening health systems
Task-sharing between Community Health Workers and Community Mid-level Professionals: Increasing Access to FP and RH Services (more)
With the aim of improving access to family planning and reproductive health services in rural areas, the Council is conducting research to investigate how different cadres of health workers function in relation to each other in five priority countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, and Pakistan.
(10/2010 - 10/2015)
Family planning services; Strengthening health systems
Adolescent Safe Spaces, Health, and Skills for Adulthood in Urban Ghana (more)
This safe spaces program provides 12–15-year-old urban adolescent females in Ghana with social, economic, and health assets.
(1/2009 - 3/2011)
Financial literacy/livelihoods; Schooling; Social isolation/support
Demographic Data for Development (more)
The first phase of the Demographic Data for Development project consisted of case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, and Uganda to examine accessibility, use, and demand for demographic data. In the second phase of the project, the Council and its partners are working to increase data access and use among journalists and members of the media in Ghana, Senegal, and Namibia.
(8/2008 - 7/2011)
Population policy and demographic analysis
Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Through Increased Access to Comprehensive Abortion Care and Family Planning Services in Ghana (more)
The Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality program is supporting the government of Ghana in achieving its contraceptive prevalence goal of 39 percent by 2015 and reducing mortality and morbidity due to unsafe abortion in three focus regions.
(9/2006 - 12/2011)
Family planning services; Integrating health services; Maternal and newborn health; Safe abortion and postabortion care
Community-based Health Planning and Services (more)
The CHPS program of service delivery change is achieved by forging partnerships between health care providers and the communities they serve.
(1/1991 - 9/2010)
Community-based services
Female Condom Exploratory Mapping Exercise (more)
The Population Council conducted a mapping exercise to gain an understanding of female condom (FC) procurement, distribution, and programming in Ghana and to explore the viability of enhancing national FC promotion.
(2/2008 - 11/2008)
Access to contraceptive methods; Condoms (male and female); HIV prevention
Scaling Up the Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative in Nkwanta District (more)
Nkwanta District has pioneered the implementation of a national program based on the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project.
(7/2001 - 8/2008)
Scaling up interventions
Comparing the Effectiveness and Costs of Alternative Strategies for Improving Access to Information and Services for the IUD in Ghana (more)
Council researchers worked to train health personnel to educate clients in Ghana on long-term contraceptive devices, in particular the IUD.
(11/2004 - 4/2007)
Access to contraceptive methods
Resources
Featured publication
Population Council in Ghana (PDFs: A4 and letter)
Country profile
Publication date: 2012
Laar,Amos
Publication date: 2012
Repositioning community-based family planning in Ghana: A case study of Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) (PDF)
Ntsua,Stephen; Tapsoba,Placide; Quansah-Asare,Gloria; Nyonator,Frank K.
Case study report
Publication date: 2012
Increasing access to family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) services through task-sharing between community health workers (CHWs) and community mid-level professionals in large-scale public-sector programs: A literature review to help guide case studies (PDF)
Foreit,James R.; Raifman,Sarah
Publication date: 2011
Integration of family planning into other health services in Ghana: Report on the performance needs assessment at four facilities in the Ashanti and Eastern regions
Noah,Y.Abisola
Publication date: 2011
Introduction of medical abortion in Ghana (PDF)
Osei Kuffour,Emmanuel; Esantsi,Selina; Tapsoba,Placide; Quansah-Asare,Gloria; Askew,Ian
Publication date: 2011
Pilotage d'un programme visant à sécuriser l'espace et à renforcer les ressources des adolescentes vivant dans les zones urbaines du Ghana (PDF)
Engebretsen,Sarah; Esantsi,Selina
Promouvoir des transitions vers l'âge adulte saines, sécurisées et productives resumen (no. 40)
Publication date: 2011
Piloting a safe spaces, asset-building program for adolescent girls in urban Ghana (PDF)
Engebretsen,Sarah; Esantsi,Selina
Promoting Healthy, Safe, and Productive Transitions to Adulthood Brief (no. 40)
Publication date: 2011
Provider-related barriers to accessing emergency contraception in developing countries: A literature review (PDF)
Williams,Katherine
Publication date: 2011
Adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people--Ghana 2008 (PDF) (HTML)
Publication date: 2010
Equity in access to maternal and child health services in five developing countries: What works (abstract)
Talukder,Md.Noorunnabi; Rob,Ubaidur
International Quarterly of Community Health Education 31(2): 119-131
Publication date: 2010
Lessons learned from the Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative (PDF)
Population Council
GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Final Report
Publication date: 2010
Life skills: Psychosocial and interpersonal skills for adolescent girls in urban Ghana--Mentor's guide (PDF)
Publication date: 2010
Acceptability and promotion strategies for LNG-IUS in Ghana: A public health assessment (PDF)
Nyarko,Philomena; Adohinzin,Cletus; Tapsoba,Placide; Esantsi,Selina; Townsend,John W.; Kanlisi,Nicholas; Ed-Nighpense,Ekua; Asare,Gloria Quansah
Publication date: 2009
Adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people (HTML)
Series of 51 data guides by country
Publication date: 2009
Adolescent experience in-depth: Using data to identify and reach the most vulnerable young people--Ghana 2003 (PDF) (HTML)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Registers--Instruction Manual (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Training Manual (Facilitator's Guide), Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Training Manual (Facilitator's Guide), Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer Training Manual (Facilitator's Guide), Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer's Training Workbook, Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer's Training Workbook, Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Officer's Training Workbook, Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Preceptor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Preceptor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Preceptor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Tutor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 1 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Tutor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 2 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS): Tutor's Guide for Community Health Nursing Training Schools, Volume 3 (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Day of Dialogue: Sharing insights and evidence on the female condom in Ghana (PDF)
Report from a 24 November 2008 consultation in Accra, Ghana
Publication date: 2009
Demographic data for development in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)
Baldwin,Wendy; Diers,Judith A.
Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Paper (no. 13)
Publication date: 2009
Demographic Data for Development: Ghana (PDF)
Awusabo-Asare,Kofi; Baldwin,Wendy; Engebretsen,Sarah
Final report
Publication date: 2009
Enhancing promotion of the female condom (PDF)
Population Briefs 15(2)
Publication date: 2009
Home Management of Malaria, Acute Respiratory Infection and Diarrhoea in Ghana: Implementation Guidelines (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Home Management of Malaria, Acute Respiratory Infection and Diarrhoea in Ghana: Manual for Community Based Agents (PDF)
Publication date: 2009
Enhancing women's protection
(PDF)
GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Progress Report, (Fall)
Publication date: 2008
Adapting focused antenatal care: Lessons from three African countries (PDF)
Birungi,Harriet
FRONTIERS Program Brief (no. 11)
Publication date: 2008
Comparing the effectiveness and costs of alternative strategies for improving access to information and services for the IUD in Ghana (PDF)
Osei,Ivy; Voetagbe,Gertrude; Aikins,Moses; Gyapong,John; Nyarko,Philomena; Birungi,Harriet; Asare,Gloria Quansah; Odoi-Agyarko,Henrietta; Aglah,Olivia
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2008
Family planning and comprehensive abortion care handbook for medical students and house officers (PDF)
Population Council
Publication date: 2008
Profile of abortion seekers in Ghana and their decision-making processes (PDF)
Nyarko,Philomena; Adohinzin,Cletus; RamaRao,Saumya; Tapsoba,Placide; Ajayi,Ayorinde
Publication date: 2008
The female condom in Ghana: Exploring the current state of affairs and gauging potential for enhanced promotion (PDF)
Naik,Reshma; Brady,Martha
Publication date: 2008
Unmet need for family planning (PDF)
GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Progress Report, (Winter)
Publication date: 2008
Assessing the equitable distribution of essential medicines for rural maternal and child health care: Baseline report, Nkwanta District, Ghana (PDF)
GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Progress Report, (June)
Publication date: 2007
Evidence-based scaling up of health and family planning service innovations in Bangladesh and Ghana (PDF)
Phillips,James F.; Nyonator,Frank K.; Jones,Tanya C.; Ravikumar,Shruti; Simmons,Ruth; Fajans,Peter; Ghiron,Laura
from Scaling Up Health Service Delivery: From Pilot Innovations to Policies and Programmes, pp. 113-134
Publication date: 2007
Focused antenatal care acceptable, tricky to implement (PDF)
Population Briefs 13(1)
Publication date: 2007
Innovative program dramatically lowers child mortality in Ghana (PDF)
Population Briefs 13(2)
Publication date: 2007
Maquiladoras and market mamas: Women's work and childcare in Guatemala City and Accra (abstract)
Quisumbing,Agnes R.; Hallman,Kelly; Ruel,Marie T.
Journal of Development Studies 43(3): 420-455
Publication date: 2007
Premarital sex and schooling transitions in four sub-Saharan African countries (PDF)
Biddlecom,Ann E.; Gregory,Richard; Lloyd,Cynthia B.; Mensch,Barbara S.
Poverty, Gender, and Youth Working Paper (no. 5)
Publication date: 2007
Rapid achievement of the child survival Millennium Development Goal: Evidence from the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana (abstract)
Binka,Fred N.; Bawah,Ayaga A.; Phillips,James F.; Hodgson,Abraham; Adjuik,Martin; MacLeod,Bruce
Tropical Medicine and International Health 12(5): 578-583
Publication date: 2007
Scaling up experimental project success with the Community-based Health Planning and Services initiative in Ghana (PDF)
Nyonator,Frank K.; Akosa,Agyeman Badu; Awoonor-Williams,John Koku; Phillips,James F.; Jones,Tanya C.; Simmons,Ruth; Fajans,Peter; Ghiron,Laura
from Scaling Up Health Service Delivery: From Pilot Innovations to Policies and Programmes, pp. 89-112
Publication date: 2007
Spotlight on child malnutrition (PDF)
GEMI (Ghana Essential Medicines Initiative) Progress Report, (Fall)
Publication date: 2007
The effect of community nurses and health volunteers on child mortality: The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project (abstract)
Pence,Brian Wells; Nyarko,Philomena; Phillips,James F.; Debpuur,Cornelius
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 35(6): 599-608
Publication date: 2007
The resolution of unintended pregnancy among female students at the University of Ghana, Legon (PDF)
El-Adas,Angela
Publication date: 2007
Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: The Navrongo experiment in Ghana
(abstract)
Phillips,James F.; Bawah,Ayaga A.; Binka,Fred N.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84(12): 949-953
Publication date: 2006
Acceptability and feasibility of introducing the WHO focused antenatal care package in Ghana (PDF)
Birungi,Harriet; Nyarko,Philomena; Armar-Klemesu,Margaret; Arhinful,Daniel; Deganus,Sylvia; Odoi-Agyarko,Henrietta; Brew,Gladys
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2006
Costs of reproductive health services provided by four Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) hospitals (PDF)
Boateng,James; Surnye,Henry; Mensah,Alex; Boateng,Bismark; Nyarko,Philomena; Munguti,Nzoya; Bratt,John H.
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2006
Could eliminating malaria significantly extend life expectancy? (PDF)
Population Briefs 12(2)
Publication date: 2006
Face-to-face complementary selling of health products in Ghana (PDF)
Bruce,Egbert; Mensah,Daniel; Idun,John; Ashabley,Francis; Foreit,James R.; Nyarko,Philomena
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2006
Ghana: Combine learning approaches to improve maternal care (PDF)
FRONTIERS OR Summary (no. 57)
Publication date: 2006
In our own hands: SWAA-Ghana champions the female condom (PDF)
Cravero,Kathleen; Skaer,Michelle; Ebin,Victoria; Brady,Martha
Quality/Calidad/Qualité (no. 17)
Publication date: 2006
Priority setting for reproductive health at the district level in the context of health sector reforms in Ghana (PDF)
Birungi,Harriet; Nyarko,Philomena; Askew,Ian; Ajayi,Ayorinde; Addico,Gifty; Addai,Edward; Jehu-Appiah,Caroline
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2006
TB baseline survey in 30 districts implementing CHPS in seven southern regions of Ghana
Final report
Publication date: 2006
The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: Evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana (PDF)
Bawah,Ayaga A.; Phillips,James F.; Adjuik,Martin; Vaughan-Smith,Maya; MacLeod,Bruce; Binka,Fred N.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 218)
Publication date: 2006
Accelerating reproductive and child health program development: The Navrongo initiative in Ghana (PDF)
Phillips,James F.; Bawah,Ayaga A.; Binka,Fred N.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 208)
Publication date: 2005
An assessment of trends in the use of the IUD in Ghana: National results dissemination and utilization (PDF)
Osei,Ivy; Gyapong,John; Wanjiru,Monica; Askew,Ian
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2005
Expanding a successful health care initiative (PDF)
Population Briefs 11(3)
Publication date: 2005
From experiment to program: Examining a successful initiative (PDF)
Population Council Annual Report 2004
Publication date: 2005
Guiding the Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services approach to scaling up with qualitative systems appraisal (abstract)
Nyonator,Frank K.; Jones,Tanya C.; Miller,Robert A.; Phillips,James F.; Awoonor-Williams,John Koku
International Quarterly of Community Health Education 23(3): 189-213
Publication date: 2005
How many years of life could be saved if malaria were eliminated from a hyperendemic area of northern Ghana? (PDF)
Bawah,Ayaga A.; Binka,Fred N.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 203)
Publication date: 2005
Improving the Ghanaian Safe Motherhood Programme (PDF)
Osei,Ivy; Garshong,Bertha; Banahene,Gertrude; Gyapong,John; Tapsoba,Placide; Askew,Ian; Ahiadeke,Clement; Killian,Richard; Bonku,Edward; Combary,Perle; Sampson,William
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2005
Review of antenatal-linked voluntary counseling and HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and options for Ghana (abstract)
Baiden,Frank; Baiden,Rita; Williams,John; Akweongo,Patricia; Clerk,Christine; Debpuur,Cornelius; Phillips,James F.; Hodgson,Abraham
Ghana Medical Journal 39(1): 8-13
Publication date: 2005
The effect of community nurses and health volunteers on child mortality: The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project (PDF)
Pence,Brian Wells; Nyarko,Philomena; Phillips,James F.; Debpuur,Cornelius
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 200)
Publication date: 2005
The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative for scaling up service delivery innovation (abstract)
Nyonator,Frank K.; Awoonor-Williams,John Koku; Phillips,James F.; Jones,Tanya C.; Miller,Robert A.
Health Policy and Planning 20(1): 25-34
Publication date: 2005
Transferring Ghana's system of evidence-based health program development: Program for an initial exchange with Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso (PDF)
FRONTIERS Report
Publication date: 2005
What happened to the IUD in Ghana? (abstract) (HTML)
Osei,Ivy; Birungi,Harriet; Addico,Gifty; Askew,Ian; Gyapong,John
African Journal of Reproductive Health 9(2): 76-91
Publication date: 2005
What works? What fails? Compendium of newsletters from the Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project 2001-2004
Publication date: 2005
Bridging the gap between evidence-based innovation and national health-sector reform in Ghana (abstract) (PDF)
Awoonor-Williams,John Koku; Feinglass,Ellie S.; Tobey,Rachel; Vaughan-Smith,Maya; Nyonator,Frank K.; Jones,Tanya C.
Studies in Family Planning 35(3): 161-177
Publication date: 2004
Bridging the gap between evidence-based innovation and national health-sector reform in Ghana (PDF)
Awoonor-Williams,John Koku; Feinglass,Ellie S.; Tobey,Rachel; Vaughan-Smith,Maya; Nyonator,Frank K.; Jones,Tanya C.; Phillips,James F.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 191)
Publication date: 2004
Investigating IUD demand in Ghana and Guatemala (PDF)
Population Briefs 10(1)
Publication date: 2004
Maquiladoras and market mamas: Women's work and childcare in Guatemala City and Accra (PDF)
Quisumbing,Agnes R.; Hallman,Kelly; Ruel,Marie T.
Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper (no. 153)
Publication date: 2003
An assessment of trends in the use of the IUD in Ghana (PDF)
Gyapong,John; Addico,Gifty; Osei,Ivy; Abbey,Mercy; Kobinah,Dominic Atweam; Agyarko,Henrietta Odoi; Asare,Gloria Quansah; Birungi,Harriet; Askew,Ian
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2003
Evidence-based development of health and family planning programs in Bangladesh and Ghana (PDF)
Phillips,James F.; Jones,Tanya C.; Nyonator,Frank K.; Ravikumar,Shruti
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 175)
Publication date: 2003
Ghana and Guatemala: Clients and providers need better support and guidance on IUDs (PDF)
FRONTIERS OR Summary (no. 32)
Publication date: 2003
Ghana y Guatemala: Clientas y proveedores requieren de apoyo y orientación sobre DIU [Ghana and Guatemala: Clients and providers need better support and guidance on IUDs] (PDF)
FRONTERAS Resumen de Investigación Operativa (número 21)
Publication date: 2003
Inconsistent reporting of female genital cutting status in northern Ghana: Explanatory factors and analytical consequences (abstract) (PDF)
Jackson,Elizabeth F.; Akweongo,Patricia; Sakeah,Evelyn; Hodgson,Abraham; Asuru,Rofina; Phillips,James F.
Studies in Family Planning 34(3): 200-210
Publication date: 2003
Innovative strategies reduce fertility in Ghana (PDF)
Population Briefs 9(2)
Publication date: 2003
Selected DHS data on 10-14-year-olds (HTML)
Annexes by country to Facts about Adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical Tables for Program Planning
Publication date: 2003
Selected DHS data on 10-14-year-olds: Ghana (PDF) (HTML)
Annex to "Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical tables for program planning"
Publication date: 2003
Social interaction and contraceptive change in northern Ghana (abstract)
Feyisetan,Bamikale J.; Phillips,James F.; Binka,Fred N.
African Population Studies 18(2): 47-67
Publication date: 2003
Social organization and reproductive behavior in southern Ghana
Agyeman,Dominic K.; Casterline,John B.; Agyei-Mensah,Samuel
from Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Collection of Micro-Demographic Studies, pp. 7-35
Publication date: 2003
Stratégies innovatrices pour réduire la fertilité au Ghana (PDF)
Population Briefs, October 2003 (French edition)
Publication date: 2003
The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative: Fostering evidence-based organizational change and development in a resource-constrained setting (PDF)
Nyonator,Frank K.; Awoonor-Williams,John Koku; Phillips,James F.; Jones,Tanya C.; Miller,Robert A.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 180)
Publication date: 2003
Women's denial of having experienced female genital cutting in northern Ghana: Explanatory factors and consequences for analysis of survey data (PDF)
Jackson,Elizabeth F.; Akweongo,Patricia; Sakeah,Evelyn; Hodgson,Abraham; Asuru,Rofina; Phillips,James F.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 178)
Publication date: 2003
Bridging the safe motherhood knowledge gap (PDF)
Population Briefs 8(1)
Publication date: 2002
Friends strongly influence contraceptive use in Ghana (PDF)
Population Briefs 8(2)
Publication date: 2002
Social organization and reproductive behavior in southern Ghana (PDF)
Agyeman,Dominic K.; Casterline,John B.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 167)
Publication date: 2002
The impact of the Navrongo project on contraceptive knowledge and use, reproductive preferences, and fertility (abstract) (PDF)
Debpuur,Cornelius; Phillips,James F.; Jackson,Elizabeth F.; Nazzar,Alex; Ngom,Pierre; Binka,Fred N.
Studies in Family Planning 33(2): 141-164
Publication date: 2002
Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey: Statistical tables for program planning (HTML)
Series of DHS data tables by country
Publication date: 2001
Facts about adolescents from the Demographic and Health Survey--Statistical tables for program planning: Ghana 1998 (PDF) (HTML)
Publication date: 2001
Ghana: Community workers can communicate STI and HIV/AIDS messages effectively (PDF)
FRONTIERS OR Summary (no. 21)
Publication date: 2001
Immunization status and child survival in rural Ghana (PDF)
Nyarko,Philomena; Pence,Brian Wells; Debpuur,Cornelius
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 147)
Publication date: 2001
Social networks and contraceptive dynamics in southern Ghana (PDF)
Montgomery,Mark R.; Kiros,Gebre-Egziabher; Agyeman,Dominic K.; Casterline,John B.; Aglobitse,Peter; Hewett,Paul C.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 153)
Publication date: 2001
Validity of women's self-reported obstetric complications in rural Ghana (abstract) (PDF)
Sloan,Nancy L.; Amoaful,Esi; Arthur,Paul; Winikoff,Beverly; Adjei,Sam
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition 19(2): 45-51
Publication date: 2001
An assessment of the community based distribution programs in Ghana (PDF)
Chege,Jane; Sanogo,Diouratie; Askew,Ian; Bannerman,Angela; Grey,Steve; Glover,Evam Kofi; Yankey,Francis; Nerquaye-Tetteh,Joana
FRONTIERS Final Report
Publication date: 2000
Hideyo Noguchi's last stand: The yellow fever commission in Accra, Africa (1927-8)
Koide,Samuel S.
Journal of Medical Biography 8(2): 97-101
Publication date: 2000
Overview of youth centre assessments in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ghana
Publication date: 2000
Assessing population dynamics in a rural African society: The Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System (abstract)
Binka,Fred N.; Ngom,Pierre; Phillips,James F.; Adazu,Kubaje; MacLeod,Bruce
Journal of Biosocial Science 31(3): 375-391
Publication date: 1999
Women's fears and men's anxieties: The impact of family planning on gender relations in northern Ghana (abstract) (PDF)
Bawah,Ayaga A.; Akweongo,Patricia; Simmons,Ruth; Phillips,James F.
Studies in Family Planning 30(1): 54-66
Publication date: 1999
Ethnicity and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (PDF)
Brockerhoff,Martin; Hewett,Paul C.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 107)
Publication date: 1998
Social networks and the diffusion of fertility control (PDF)
Montgomery,Mark R.; Casterline,John B.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 119)
Publication date: 1998
The changing social environment for adolescents in Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana: Implications for reproductive behavior (PDF)
Mensch,Barbara S.; Bagah,Daniel; Clark,Wesley H.; Binka,Fred N.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 110)
Publication date: 1998
The influence of traditional religion on fertility regulation among the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana (abstract) (PDF)
Adongo,Philip B.; Binka,Fred N.; Phillips,James F.
Studies in Family Planning 29(1): 23-40
Publication date: 1998
The determinants of contraceptive innovation: A case-control study of family planning acceptance in a traditional African society
Phillips,James F.; Binka,Fred N.; Adjuik,Martin; Nazzar,Alex; Adazu,Kubaze Frank
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 93)
Publication date: 1997
Developing a culturally appropriate family planning program for the Navrongo experiment (abstract)
Nazzar,Alex; Adongo,Philip B.; Binka,Fred N.; Phillips,James F.
Studies in Family Planning 26(6): 307-324
Publication date: 1995
The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project (abstract)
Binka,Fred N.; Nazzar,Alex; Phillips,James F.
Studies in Family Planning 26(3): 121-139
Publication date: 1995
The tradeoff between the number of children and their schooling: Evidence from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
Montgomery,Mark R.; Kouame,Aka; Oliver,Raylynn
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 82)
Publication date: 1995
Unmet need for contraception: Unmet need in a traditional West African setting
Population Council Project Summary
Publication date: 1995
Gender Inequalities and Demographic Behavior: Ghana/Kenya
Gage,Anastasia J.; Njogu,Wamucii
Publication date: 1994
Does sibsize matter? The implications of family size for children's education in Ghana
Lloyd,Cynthia B.; Gage,Anastasia J.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 45)
Publication date: 1992
Women's role in maintaining households: Poverty and gender inequality in Ghana
Lloyd,Cynthia B.; Brandon,Anastasia J.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 25)
Publication date: 1991
Women's childrearing strategies in relation to fertility and employment in Ghana
Blanc,Ann K.; Lloyd,Cynthia B.
Policy Research Division Working Paper (no. 16)
Publication date: 1990
Ghana Fast Facts
| Population (millions) | 25.5 |
|---|---|
| Total fertility rate | 4.1 |
| Infant deaths per 1,000 live births | 47 |
| Maternal deaths per 100,000 live births | 350 |
| Girls aged 20-24 married by age 18 (%) | 24.6 |
| HIV/AIDS prevalence (%) | 1.8 |
| Living below US $2 per day (%) | 54 |
Country statistics from Demographic and Health Surveys, 1987–2011; UNAIDS and UNICEF websites (accessed 10/22/2012); "World Population Data Sheet" (Population Reference Bureau, 2012) | |
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