ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2015
Understanding the Social Context of the ASGM Sector in Ghana: A Qualitative Description of the Demographic, Health, and Nutritional Characteristics of a Small-Scale Gold Mining Community in Ghana.
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- Exploring prioritization of wellbeing and health impacts for mining communities during the mining life cycle within the sub-Saharan Africa context: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Public health impacts of gold mining in Ghana: A scoping review of environmental exposures and intersectoral resilience strategies.Journal of public health in Africa · 2026Review
- Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice to Resolve Health Problems in Southeast Asian Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Communities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Environmental and health risks posed to children by artisanal gold mining: A systematic review.SAGE open medicine · 2022Review
- Detection of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Activities and Their Transformation Using Earth Observation, Nighttime Light, and Precipitation Data.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Time-Series Assessment of Camp-Type Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Sectors with Large Influxes of Miners Using LANDSAT Imagery.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Associations between Natural Resource Extraction and Incidence of Acute and Chronic Health Conditions: Evidence from Tanzania.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- "If you don't find anything, you can't eat" - Mining livelihoods and income, gender roles, and food choices in northern Guinea.Resources policy · 2021Article
- Food Security in Artisanal Mining Communities: An Exploration of Rural Markets in Northern Guinea.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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- Respiratory health of dust-exposed Congolese coltan miners.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2018Article
- A comparison of licensed and un-licensed artisanal and small-scale gold miners (ASGM) in terms of socio-demographics, work profiles, and injury rates.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Pulmonary function and respiratory health of rural farmers and artisanal and small scale gold miners in Ghana.Environmental research · 2017Article
- Local Geographic Variation of Public Services Inequality: Does the Neighborhood Scale Matter?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Article
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This descriptive paper describes factors related to demographics and health in an artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) community in Ghana's Upper East Region. Participants (n = 114) were surveyed in 2010 and 2011, adapting questions from the established national Demographic Health Survey (DHS) on factors such as population characteristics, infrastructure, amenities, education, employment, maternal and child health, and diet. In the study community, some indicators of household wealth (e.g., radios, mobile phones, refrigerators) are more common than elsewhere in Ghana, yet basic infrastructure (e.g., cement flooring, sanitation systems) and access to safe water supplies are lacking. Risk factors for poor respiratory health, such as cooking with biomass fuel smoke and smoking tobacco, are common. Certain metrics of maternal and child health are comparable to other areas of Ghana (e.g., frequency of antenatal care), whereas others (e.g., antenatal care from a skilled provider) show deficiencies. Residents surveyed do not appear to lack key micronutrients, but report lower fruit and vegetable consumption than other rural areas. The results enable a better understanding of community demographics, health, and nutrition, and underscore the need for better demographic and health surveillance and data collection across ASGM communities to inform effective policies and programs for improving miner and community health.
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