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The impact of credit accessibility on rural households clean cooking energy consumption: The case of Ghana

Energy Reports, 2020
This study examined the impact of credit received on rural household clean cooking energy consumption. The study pays more attention to clean energies, such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene. Due to the endogenous issue of credit, we employed
Martinson Ankrah Twumasi, Yuansheng Jiang, Bismark Ameyaw, Frank Osei Danquah, Monica Owusu Acheampong   +4 more
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Barriers to Medicaid Participation for Community Midwives in California

Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.
Introduction The United States faces persistent perinatal health care inequities, and there is growing recognition that midwifery care, including community‐based care offered outside of hospital settings, could address these challenges. Medicaid finances half of the births in the United States, but state policies notably limit access to community ...
Jessica M. Harrison, Ariana Thompson‐Lastad, Chanda Williams, Sara Jhanjar, Mounika Parimi, Jennifer T. Dunn, Maria T. Chao, Jennifer James, Liz Donnelly, Holly Smith, Tanya Khemet Taiwo   +10 more
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AI Public Value Creation: Data Encoding, Aggregation, and Algorithmic Computation

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT AI systems in public administration challenge the premise that value creation arises from managers' strategic mediation among the vertices of Moore's strategic triangle: Public value, legitimacy, and operational capacity. AI imposes new logics that reshape vertices and their interaction dynamics.
Antonio Cordella, Francesco Gualdi
wiley   +1 more source

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Social Policy and Political Regime Change in Central America

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does democracy deliver more inclusive and transparent social policy in low‐capacity states? And how does democratic backsliding reshape social policy? Drawing on a comparative analysis of El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua, we examine how regime change and political ideology are associated with patterns of social policy access and ...
Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez‐Ancochea   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of Late Antenatal Care Initiation: A Multicentre Cross-Sectional Study in Ghana

SAGE Open Nursing
Background Despite free maternal healthcare, about 50% of pregnant women in Ghana initiate their antenatal clinic (ANC) late. Aim This study aimed to identify the factors that contribute to the late initiation of ANC among pregnant women in the Jasikan ...
Jonathan Gbene MPH, Mohammed Augustine Takase PhD, Valentine Ayangba MPhil, Williams Azumah Abanga MPhil, Anwar Sadat Hamza MPhil, Justina Atogichiga Alechana RM, MPhil, Edem Kojo Dzantor MPH, Elvis E. Tarkang PhD   +7 more
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Health Beliefs, Diabetes Education, and Physical Activity Engagement Among Persons Living With Diabetes in Ghana

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background From the perspective of the health belief model (HBM), persons living with diabetes' (PLWD) perception about the severity of their condition, their perceived susceptibility, perceived benefits, and perceived barriers could determine their participation in physical activity.
Precious Adade Duodu, Joshua Okyere
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial and spatiotemporal pattern of stroke relative risk in Ghana using Bayesian modelling approach

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Introduction: Stroke ranks as the second-leading cause of death and third in combined death and disability globally. In Ghana, there is a significant incidence of stroke, yet systematic reviews highlight a lack of comprehensive data on stroke in Sub ...
Abdul-Karim Iddrisu, Sampson Appiah Takyi, Joyseline Owusu Afriyie, Abubakar Siddick   +3 more
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Using large language models to analyze political texts through natural language understanding

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 1589-1605, October 2026.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) offer scalable alternatives to human experts when analyzing political texts for meaning, using natural language understanding (NLU). Qualitative NLU methods relying on human experts are severely limited by cost and scalability.
Kenneth Benoit, Scott De Marchi, Conor Laver, Michael Laver, Jinshuai Ma   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of digital agriculture solutions on smallscale wage workers and employment

Cogent Social Sciences
The study examined how the use of digital agriculture solutions affected farm worker pay and on-farm employment. Data gathered, was from 1,199 randomly sampled Small-scale farmers in the Bono East Region of Ghana.
Licarion Kunwedomo Miine, Angela Dziedzom Akorsu, Owusu Boampong, Shaibu Bukari   +3 more
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The Contention of Care: A Latin American Perspective

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT In the current global political landscape, characterised by increasing polarisation and a rise in far‐right conservative governments, ‘care’ has become a contested field. In particular, the decline in birth rates has catalysed conservative discourse advocating a return to ‘traditional’ values around the world.
Belén Villegas Plá
wiley   +1 more source