Predictors of subjective well-being among older Ghanaians [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Later years of life are accompanied by many physical, emotional and environmental changes which may impact on the well-being of the individual. Many factors are known to influence the subjectivewell-being of older adults, but most, if not all
Bad-Doo, NA +11 more
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Assessment of socio demographic factors on termination of pregnancy in Ghana
Nursing Open, Volume 11, Issue 4, April 2024.Abstract Aim Assessing the socio‐demographic factors on termination of pregnancy in Ghana. Design Cross‐sectional study, using data source from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS). Methods Data pooled from the most recent DHS conducted in Ghana, with variables of interest with rural and urban population coverage.
Mavis Akosuah Serwah Armah‐Mensah +1 more
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Nursing Inquiry, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2024.Abstract The origins of marginalization in nursing and the health sector in Ghana can be traced to colonialism and how a colonial era laid a solid foundation for inequities and entrenched disparities, as well as the subsequent normalization of marginalizing acts, in the health sector, particularly for women.
Eunice Bawafaa
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 4, no. 3 [PDF]
, 2019 A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1.
Acolatse, Esther E. +6 more
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‘Plastic stays beautiful’: Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts* [PDF]
Plastics are as positively durable as they are easily breakable, almost impossible to mend and hard to get rid of. They promise eternal life, but their immortality may quickly turn them into the undead.
Bredenbröker, Isabel
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Trokosi tradition : navigating through traditional practices, gender, human rights, and reproductive rights in Ghana [PDF]
, 2023 1 online resource (77 pages) : colour mapsIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-77).The trokosi practice is an ancient traditional system that involves the selection of a young female by her family to serve in a shrine as a form
Marfo, Crenda Obenewaa
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From Maroons to Mardi Gras: The Role of African Cultural Retention in the Development of the Black Indian Culture of New Orleans [PDF]
, 2018 After a three hundred year journey from the continent, African cultural retention remains at the core of the Black Indian masking tradition of New Orleans.
Ligon Williams, Robin
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After Sacrifice : Deeds and words for protection and cure [PDF]
, 2016 Peer ...
Honkasalo, Lahja Marja-Liisa
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Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas [PDF]
, 2022 The contributors to Embodying Black Religions in Africa and Its Diasporas investigate the complex intersections between the body, religious expression, and the construction and transformation of social relationships and political and economic power ...
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A Comparative Study of Weavings of Two Disparate Cultures: Finding the Similarities in Handcrafts [PDF]
This thesis is a study of the similarities between the traditional weavings of two indigenous cultures who appear to be culturally unrelated, the West African Ewe and the Peruvian Quechua located in the Cusco Province. Its purview includes the purpose it
Lowe, Monica
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