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Vitalis Bawontuo · Sankore

Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies

Vitalis Bawontuo

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ORCID 0000-0001-8440-0172

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Publications

13

Citations

61

h-index

4

Computed over the works the graph holds, so it is a floor rather than a career figure.

i10-index

3

Works published 2022 onward have been swept for this country. Figures are complete within that window, to the extent the open indexes are.

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Every institution this scholar has appeared with on a work, by how many.

Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies11 works
University for Development Studies9 works
University of Energy and Natural Resources1 works

Publications

13 works in the graph, newest first.

Mapping the evidence on interventions for addressing teenage pregnancy: a scoping review of systematic reviews protocol
2025BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessSenior author2 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2025-109799
Food system determinants of seasonal malnutrition in children under 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol
2025BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2025-101795
Incidence and drivers of medication returned to health facilities by patients in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review protocol
2025BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100772
Sustainable solutions to barriers of point-of-care diagnostic testing services in health facilities without laboratories in the Bono Region, Ghana: a qualitative study
2024BMC Family PracticeJournalOpen access16 citations10.1186/s12875-024-02406-4

Adolescent girls’ and young mothers’ knowledge and use of antenatal care in the Ahafo Region, Ghana: A cross-sectional study

2024African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineJournalOpen access2 citations10.4102/phcfm.v16i1.4259

Geographical Access to Point-of-care diagnostic tests for diabetes, anaemia, Hepatitis B, and human immunodeficiency virus in the Bono Region, Ghana

2024BMC Health Services ResearchJournalOpen access3 citations10.1186/s12913-024-11830-2

Occupational stress and burnout experience among healthcare workers compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a scoping review protocol

2023Systematic ReviewsJournalOpen access11 citations10.1186/s13643-023-02200-w

Geographic availability of and physical accessibility to tuberculosis diagnostic tests in Ghana: a cross-sectional survey

2023BMC Health Services ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior author11 citations10.1186/s12913-023-09755-3

Availability, stock levels and usage of In-vitro diagnostics in the Bono region, Ghana: A cross-sectional study

2023African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family MedicineJournalOpen access3 citations10.4102/phcfm.v15i1.4114

Power sources among district health managers in Ghana: a qualitative study

2022BMC Family PracticeJournalOpen accessFirst author6 citations10.1186/s12875-022-01678-y

Mapping evidence on the use of health promotion and disease prevention interventions as a strategy to sustaining pro-poor health insurance schemes: a scoping review protocol

2022Systematic ReviewsJournalOpen access3 citations10.1186/s13643-022-01942-3

Mapping research evidence on implementation of the WHO ‘best buys’ and other interventions for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol

2022Systematic ReviewsJournalOpen access3 citations10.1186/s13643-022-01992-7

Mapping research evidence on perinatal asphyxia within the sustainable development era in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol

2022Systematic ReviewsJournalOpen access1 citations10.1186/s13643-022-02058-4