COVID-19 pandemic, a war to be won: understanding its economic implications for Africa

JE Ataguba - Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 2020 - Springer
The emergence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the global public health scene has
led to growing concerns and uncertainties. It has intensified my curiosity about the likely …

Social determinants of health: the role of effective communication in the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries

OA Ataguba, JE Ataguba - Global health action, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected many
countries with increasing morbidity and mortality. Interestingly, many of the actions and …

Engaging globally with how to achieve healthy societies: insights from India, Latin America and East and Southern Africa

R Loewenson, E Villar, R Baru, R Marten - BMJ global health, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
The way healthy societies are conceptualised shapes efforts to achieve them. This paper
explores the features and drivers of frameworks for healthy societies that had wide or …

Structural inequality in the time of COVID-19: Urbanization, segregation, and pandemic control in sub-Saharan Africa

BM Finn, LC Kobayashi - Dialogues in Human Geography, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes countries and people in sub-Saharan Africa to severe
risks because of structural global inequalities. There is a simultaneous risk of the use of …

Geographic and socioeconomic inequalities in the survival of children under-five in Nigeria

CI Okoli, M Hajizadeh, MM Rahman, R Khanam - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Despite a substantial decline in child mortality globally, the high rate of under-five mortality
in Nigeria is still one of the main public health concerns. This study investigates inequalities …

A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research

L Cash-Gibson, M Harris, G Guerra… - Health Research Policy …, 2020 - Springer
Background Despite increasing evidence on health inequalities over the past decades,
further efforts to strengthen capacities to produce research on this topic are still urgently …

[HTML][HTML] Examining the implementation of digital health to strengthen the COVID-19 pandemic response and recovery and scale up equitable vaccine access in …

OA Olusanya, B White, CA Melton… - JMIR formative …, 2022 - formative.jmir.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted the world, having taken the lives of over
6 million individuals. Accordingly, this pandemic has caused a shift in conversations …

Sociodemographic characteristics and health profile of the elderly seeking health care in Kampala, Uganda

F Nawagi, M Söderberg, V Berggren… - Current Gerontology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aging entails health challenges globally, but pertinent data from low‐income countries like
Uganda remains scarce. A cross‐sectional study was carried out at Mulago National …

Health Burdens and Labor Productivity in Africa's Middle-and Low-Income Economies: Implication for the COVID-19 Pandemic

IA Mobosi, PO Okonta, CE NWAN KWO - Journal of the Knowledge …, 2023 - Springer
The effect of health burdens on labour productivity in Africa's middle and low-income
economies in the advent of Covid-19 pandemic was investigated in this paper. It employed …

Investigating the Immigrant Paradox in South Africa: Exploring Reported Health, Depression, and Life Satisfaction

DT Nyagweta - Forum for Social Economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The issue of international migration and health has received increased attention since its
rise due to empirical studies on the immigrant paradox. Less examined has been research …