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Ayaga A. Bawah · Sankore

University of Ghana

Ayaga A. Bawah

ORCID, self-asserted

ORCID 0000-0003-4864-4182

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Publications

38

Citations

194

h-index

9

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i10-index

9

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University of Ghana40 works
Regional Maritime University3 works
Ghana Institute of Languages1 works

Publications

38 works in the graph, newest first.

Measuring Ghana’s primary health care system readiness towards attaining universal health coverage using a composite index
2026Journal of Global Health ScienceJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citations10.35500/jghs.2026.8.e4
Advancing Evidence-Based Innovations for Strengthening Health Systems in Africa: Insights from the 2025 Health Systems Innovation Conference in Ghana
2026Journal of Global Health ScienceJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.35500/jghs.2026.8.e6
Health system solutions to barriers to family planning access in rural Northern Ghana
2026Journal of Global Health ScienceJournalOpen access0 citations10.35500/jghs.2026.8.e8
Capacity building improves implementation of primary health care by frontline health workers: qualitative evidence from the CHPS+ project in two Systems Learning Districts of Ghana
2026Journal of Global Health ScienceJournalOpen access0 citations10.35500/jghs.2026.8.e10

Health worker capacity-building interventions and quality of primary healthcare delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review protocol

2026BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2025-110779

Understanding contemporary challenges to safe abortion access in Africa through a health systems lens: a systematic review protocol

2026BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2025-113986

Completeness of death registration in Ghana: An evaluation of multiple data sources and methods

2026PLoS ONEJournalOpen access0 citations10.1371/journal.pone.0354361

Who pays more? Exploring cost disparities in medication abortion access across socio-demographic groups in Ghana

2025International Journal for Equity in HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author5 citations10.1186/s12939-025-02500-8

Trends in spousal age difference at first marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa

2025Journal of Biosocial ScienceJournalOpen accessSenior author3 citations10.1017/s0021932025100333

Assessing Information and Counselling Provision for Medical Abortion Care in Pharmacies Versus Clinics: Secondary Analysis of Two Non‐Inferiority Cohort Studies

2025BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & GynaecologyJournal1 citations10.1111/1471-0528.18344

The impact of community-based transport intervention on Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) access and response times in two underserved districts of Ghana

2025Journal of Global Health ScienceJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citations10.35500/jghs.2025.7.e28

The impact of community-based transport intervention on Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (EmONC) access and response times in two underserved districts of Ghana

2025Journal of Global Health ScienceJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citations10.35500/jghs.2026.8.e1

Pathways to care: Factors predicting women’s access to clinic versus pharmacy-based medication abortion in Ghana

2025Women s HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1177/17455057251347032

Population Ageing and its Implications for Social Protection and Social Security Expenditures in Ghana

2025Ghana’s DemographyBook ChapterFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1007/978-3-032-00582-3_9

Mortality Trends, Patterns, and Causes of Death in Ghana: The Big and Small Picture

2025Ghana’s DemographyBook ChapterFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1007/978-3-032-00582-3_4

Demography and the Future of Ghana’s Socio-Economic Development

2025Book ChapterFirst author0 citations10.1007/978-3-032-00582-3_16

Ghana’s Demography

2025BookOpen accessFirst author0 citations10.1007/978-3-032-00582-3

Post-abortion contraceptive use among women purchasing medication abortion from pharmacies vs. clinics: Evidence from Cambodia and Ghana

2025ContraceptionJournalOpen access0 citations10.1016/j.contraception.2025.111243

Trajectories of contraception before pregnancy and after medication abortion among women accessing clinic vs pharmacy services in Ghana

2025Sexual & Reproductive HealthcareJournalOpen access0 citations10.1016/j.srhc.2025.101171

Vitamin A supplementation and nutritional status among children 6–36 months in Northern Ghana

2025Academia Nutrition and DieteticsJournalOpen access0 citations10.20935/acadnutr8006

Medical abortion in Ghana: A non-randomized, non-inferiority study of access through pharmacies compared with clinics

2024ContraceptionJournalOpen access10 citations10.1016/j.contraception.2024.110538

The Value Proposition of Coordinated Population Cohorts Across Africa

2024Annual Review of Biomedical Data ScienceJournalOpen access6 citations10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-020722-015026

Contraceptive use and method mix dynamics in Sub-saharan Africa: time trends and the influence of the HIV pandemic

2024Contraception and Reproductive MedicineJournalOpen accessFirst author4 citations10.1186/s40834-024-00273-z

Spousal age differences and women’s contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa

2024Contraception and Reproductive MedicineJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding1 citations10.1186/s40834-024-00306-7

Impact of health system strengthening interventions on child survival in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review protocol

2024Systematic ReviewsJournalOpen accessCorresponding0 citations10.1186/s13643-023-02397-w

Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data

2023World DevelopmentJournalOpen access23 citations10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106253

Impact of community health interventions on maternal and child health indicators in the upper east region of Ghana

2023BMC Pregnancy and ChildbirthJournalOpen accessCorresponding16 citations10.1186/s12884-023-05577-7

How different incentives influence reported motivation and perceptions of performance in Ghanaian community-based health planning and services zones

2023BMC Research NotesJournalOpen access6 citations10.1186/s13104-023-06286-2

“The trip actually opened our eyes to things that we were supposed to do and we were not doing”: developing primary health care system leadership in a low-income country with peer exchanges

2023Research in Health Services & RegionsJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.1007/s43999-023-00030-w

Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana

2022Population and EnvironmentJournalOpen access31 citations10.1007/s11111-022-00407-y

Partner support and women's contraceptive use: insight from urban poor communities in Accra, Ghana

2022BMC Women s HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author21 citations10.1186/s12905-022-01799-7

Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: a Bayesian spatial analysis

2022BMJ OpenJournalOpen access18 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054030

Impact of Covid‐19 on Maternal Health Seeking in Ghana

2022Journal of International DevelopmentJournalOpen accessSenior author19 citations10.1002/jid.3627

Covert Contraceptive Use amongst the urban poor in Accra, Ghana: experiences of health providers

2022Reproductive HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author10 citations10.1186/s12978-022-01516-5

Postpartum contraceptive initiation and use: Evidence from Accra, Ghana

2022Women s HealthJournalOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding10 citations10.1177/17455057221141290

The impact of a health systems strengthening initiative on child morbidity: The case of the Ghana Essential Health Interventions Program in rural northern Ghana

2022PLoS ONEJournalOpen access3 citations10.1371/journal.pone.0269199

Earth System's Gatekeeping of “One Health” Approach to Manage Climate‐Sensitive Infectious Diseases

2022GeoHealthJournalOpen accessSenior author3 citations10.1029/2021gh000543

Socio-economic, physical and health-related determinants of causes of death among women in the Kintampo districts of Ghana

2022Cogent Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citations10.1080/27707571.2022.2109300