ReviewFrontiers in public health2022
Impact of Urbanization on Health and Well-Being in Ghana. Status of Research, Intervention Strategies and Future Directions: A Rapid Review.
Review in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Stroke burden and associated predictors in Ghana: a Bayesian analysis of the WHO study on global ageing and adult health.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Article
- Prevalence of Hepatitis B virus Genotypes and their Correlation with Serological Markers among Chronic Infected Patients in Sudan.Current microbiology · 2026Article
- Consumer Preferences, Perceived Benefits, and Determinants of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Urban Kumasi, Ghana.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Association between reproductive history and menopausal timing: exploring rural-urban differences in a cross-sectional survey.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- The mediating role of social networks and safety perceptions in the frailty-quality of life relationship among older people in rural and urban regions of Ghana.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Article
- Food-related behaviors of rural (Asaase Kooko) and peri-urban (Kaadjanor) households in Ghana.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The health cost of urbanization: identification and ranking of influencing factors of class A and B infectious diseases based on machine learning.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Antenatal care coverage and early childhood mortality in Zimbabwe: new interpretations from nationally representative household surveys.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Uncovering the determinants of health in deprived urban neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana: a qualitative and participatory reconnaissance study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Between Policy and Risk Communication: Coverage of Air Pollution in Ghanaian Newspapers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association of Well-Being in Middle-Aged and Older Adults With Enhanced Personal Health and Social Support: A Nationally Representative Cohort Study.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Introduction: Ghana like other African countries is facing multiple health threats due to expansion of urban populations. Globally, the urbanization phenomenon has received considerable attention and modest steps have been undertaken to address it. Ghana is stalling on implementation of policies and interventions targeted at alleviating the menace. Objectives: This review examined research evidence, interventions, and policies relating to urbanization and threats to health and well-being of people living in Ghana. The review focused on three areas including urbanization threats to health and well-being, health risks associated with urbanization, and interventions and policies. Materials and Methods: The search spanned from year 2000 to February 2022 covering documents related to urbanization, health, and well-being. Databases used for the search include African Journals Online, Annual Reviews (Biomedical, Life & Physical sciences, Social Sciences), BioMedCentral, BioOne, BLDS digital library, Cambridge University Press, ClinicalKey, CINAHL, University of Ghana Digital Collections/UGSpace, JSTOR, Medline and Wiley Online Library. Results: Environmental risk factors, urban planning, water-related, behavior-related, and socioeconomic factors were important urbanization threats to health and well-being. Health risks identified include airborne diseases, waterborne diseases, malaria, and non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and lung cancer. Additionally, there is evidence of non-implementation and/or non-enforcement of existing interventions and policies. Conclusion and Recommendation: Evidence from this rapid review shows that urbanization impacts on health and well-being of people in Ghana. Urbanization threats that expose populations to health risks could be reduced through commitment to implementation, surveillance and monitoring of policies and interventions. Communities and individuals must be equipped to take control of their health and well-being.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.