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Barnabas Bessing · Sankore

Ghana Health Service

Barnabas Bessing

ORCID, self-asserted

ORCID 0000-0003-0490-689X

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6

Citations

1

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1

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0

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Ghana Health Service6 works
World Health Organization - Zimbabwe1 works

Publications

6 works in the graph, newest first.

Women’s empowerment and quality antenatal care in Ghana: analysis using the survey-based women’s empowerment global index in the Ghana demographic and health survey
2026BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2025-104237
Epidemiological, entomological and community determinants of the 2021 yellow fever outbreak in Wa East District, Ghana: cross-sectional descriptive outbreak investigation
2026BMJ OpenJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.1136/bmjopen-2025-112217
Epidemiology and public health response to a meningitis outbreak in Ghana's Upper West Region, 2025: a descriptive cross-sectional study
2026Pan African Medical JournalJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.11604/pamj.2026.53.80.51188
Evaluation of the acute flaccid paralysis surveillance system performance in the Upper West Region of Ghana from 2021 to 2023: a retrospective descriptive study
2025BMJ OpenJournal

Open access

Senior author

Corresponding

0 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2025-105835

Correlates of Hepatitis B infection in pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Wa Municipality, Ghana

2024PLOS Global Public HealthJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citations10.1371/journal.pgph.0002447

Preparing for the ‘Blues’: Building Midwives’ Capacity for the Delivery of Perinatal Mental Health Care and Services in Ghana

2024International Journal For Multidisciplinary ResearchJournalOpen access0 citations10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i01.13778