Edward Wilson AnsahUniversity of Cape Coast | UCC · Department of Health, Physical Education & Recreation (HPER)
Edward Wilson Ansah
Ph.D.
Climate Change - Health, Health Sector Corruption, PSC, Worksite Health and Safety. I welcome Collaborators with grant.
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Introduction
Dr. Edward Wilson Ansah the current Head of Department, Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa. Edward is a specialist in Health Promotion, Occupational and Environmental Health and Sanitation. Edward's research areas include Psychosocial Safety Climate and Health, Climate and Health, Patients' Safety, Sanitation. Edward is currently looking for collaborators, with grant, in PSC, Climate Change, Heat Stress and Health...
Additional affiliations
June 2018 - present
Position
- Senior Lecturer
Description
- Research Teach Ph.D, Master's and Undergraduate level courses. Supervise Ph.D and Master's Thesis. Consultancy Services in Research, Environmental Health, Sanitation, Occupational Health, Risk Assessment. Design, Review Programs and Courses
April 2015 - May 2018
Position
- Principal Investigator
Description
- Teach undergraduate courses; Intro to Health Education; Physical Fitness and Wellness; Seminar in Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Health Promotion/Education Activities; Test and Measurement in HPER; Sex and Reproductive Health Education
Education
August 2014 - September 2017
University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Field of study
- Health Promotion (Environmental and Occupational Health)
August 2010 - March 2013
University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Field of study
- Health Education
August 2005 - May 2009
University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana
Field of study
- Bachelor of Education in Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Publications
Publications (57)
The COVID-19 pandemic as a public health crisis also has a major effect on development. Though there has been a prediction of economic decline worldwide, developing African countries are anticipated to have the worst form of impact. In this paper, we reviewed the impact of COVID-19 on the economic development of Ghana. We observed that Ghana's gros...
The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic has ravaged societies at their very core and deepened pre-existing inequalities. Meanwhile, persons with disabilities (PwDs), the most oppressed group in Ghana that live in poor and deplorable conditions are most like to be negatively impacted by the Sars-Cov-2 crisis. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explore how the S...
Pain is a complex feeling and sensation among all populations. Yet, it is one of the most prevalent reasons for getting medical attention. Pain among older people is one of the major threats to their well being and quality of life. Thus, this book chapter comprehensively deals with topics among older adults like prevalence of pain, classification o...
Background:
Stress among prison inmates is a neglected psychological health issue, but this phenomenon seems worse in Ghana's prisons. This study examined the stress levels, predictors and management strategies utilized among inmates at Ankaful Prison Complex.
Method:
This survey sampled 1160 inmates using the census approach at the Ankaful Pris...
Introduction
Africa has a higher burden of malaria-related cases and deaths globally. Children under five accounted for over two-thirds of all malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This scoping review aims to map evidence of the prevalence, contextual factors and health education interventions of malaria amongst children under 5 years (UN5) i...
Background: Stress among prison inmates is a neglected psychological health issues, but this phenomenon seems worse in Ghana’s prisons. This study examined the stress levels, predictors and management strategies utilized among inmates at Ankaful Prison Complex. Method: This survey sampled 1,160 inmates using the census approach at the Ankaful Priso...
Background: Big Events like the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in disruptions of socio-economic activities as well as work life. The disruption of social support systems and economic activities can be detrimental to human health and survival. In such situations, social structures such as workplaces need to be re-structured to effectively support i...
The study explored lived experiences of physical education (PE) student interns' experiences, challenges and the role of mentors during internship. The participants were 12 PE students and nine mentors who completed four months (one semester) internship in Ghana. These participants were purposively sampled and interviewed using semi-structured inte...
Background
The Sars-Cov-2 pandemic has ravaged societies at their very core and deepened pre-existing inequalities. Meanwhile, persons with disabilities (PwDs), the most oppressed group in Ghana that live in poor and deplorable conditions are most like to be negatively impacted by the Sars-Cov-2 crisis. Therefore, the aim of this study is to explor...
Background: Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTIs) among children under five are still the leading cause of mortality among this group of children in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This scoping review aims to map evidence on prevalence and risk factors associated with ALRTIs amo...
Climate change negatively impacts the environment, human, animal, and aquatic life. Notwithstanding the growing evidence of the influence of climate change on occupational health and safety in developed countries, few reviews have been conducted on its effects on farmers' health and productivity within the West African sub-region. This paper shows...
Background
Adolescent pregnancy is a public health challenge that has well-defined causes, associated health risks, and social and economic consequences for adolescent, their families, communities, and society. The purpose of this scoping review is to summarize studies published on socio-cultural determinants of adolescent pregnancy in Ghana.
Meth...
Studies examining the effectiveness of rope skipping training to improve the body mass
index (BMI) of school children are scarce. Hence, this study examined the effectiveness of nine-week skipping training on the BMI of primary six school-aged children (n = 77). The participants underwent 30 min of skipping training three days per week over a nine-...
Climate change negatively impacts the environment, human, animal, and aquatic life. Notwithstanding the growing evidence of the influence of climate change on occupational health and safety in developed countries, few reviews have been conducted on its effects on farmers' health and productivity within the West African sub-region. This paper shows...
Background
Health literacy addresses environmental, political, and social factors that determine health. Drug dispensers play a major role in educating patients on drug use to increase effective and efficient drug utilisation, thereby promoting positive healthcare outcomes. From the patients’ perspective, this study examined the communication quali...
Background
The demand for quality maternal and child health (MCH) data is critical for tracking progress towards attainment of the Sustainable Development Goal 3. However, MCH cannot be adequately monitored where health data are inaccurate, incomplete, untimely, or inconsistent. Thus, this study assessed the level of MCH data quality.
Method
A fac...
Background
Adolescent pregnancy is a public health issue with well-defined causes and health risks with social and economic implications. Aim of this review was to examine adverse pregnancy outcomes and risk factors associated with adolescent pregnancy in Africa.
Method
PubMed Central, Science Direct and JSTOR were the main databases for the liter...
This study aimed to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Anxiety Towards Mathematics Scale across four continents. We adopted and translated the original Spanish version of the 24-item Anxiety Towards Mathematics Scale (ATMS-24; Muñoz, Mato-Vazquez, 2007) to collect 4,338 responses from Egypt, and United Arab Emirates. Al...
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Background
The older person population is rapidly increasing globally, including sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Concurrently, malnutrition is also increasing among older persons in SSA, with a dearth of empirical evidence on nutritional status and associated factors among the older persons in the region to inform effective interventions to promote healt...
Objective: To investigate sexual behaviour changes adopted by PLHIV on Antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Northern Region of Ghana. Methods: We employed a cross-sectional survey with a questionnaire to collect data from 900 clients from nine major ART centres within the region. Chi-square and logistics regression analyses were applied to the data....
Objectives: This study examined the level of knowledge of health hazards associated with medical waste management, among healthcare workers and management staff of healthcare facilities in the Cape Coast Metropolis. Methods: Three hundred and twenty (320) healthcare workers were surveyed from two public hospitals in the Metropolis and 7 management...
Background
Nursing is a profession that care for personal and private aspects of people’s lives. Therefore, nurses need to know the basic ethical aspects of nursing which is integral in nursing practices. The purpose of the study was to describe the ethical knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses in the Cape Coast Metropolis of Ghana.
Method
A...
Purpose: Chopbars provide urban and rural communities with easy access to affordable food. However, whether the food produced by these vendors is safe and healthy for human consumption is a big question. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the level of knowledge, attitudes and practices of chopbar workers, and explore the relationship between th...
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the main sources of health and safety hazards confronting mortuary attendants in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis (STM).
Objective: Rapid population growth has increased tons of waste generated daily in the various Ghanaian districts. A total of 9,331kg of household waste is generated daily in the Tain District, but managing it becomes a challenge. The aim of the study was to investigate households’ waste management practice in the Tain District of Ghana. Method: A c...
Introduction. Injuries are a major global health problem that affect teenagers in many countries. Though several studies have been done in many countries, little is known among adolescents in Mauritius. Therefore, our paper explored the prevalence and correlates of serious injuries among adolescents in Mauritius.
Methods. We analysed the 2017 Glob...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of some selected traditional developmental games on balance abilities of children aged 10 to 12 years in the Cape Coast Metropolis of the Central Region of Ghana. Using a quasi-experimental design, 30 school children, comprising of 15 boys and 15 girls, aged 10, 11, and 12 years were randomly sele...
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread rapidly worldwide with life-changing consequences. and affecting anxiety, misconceptions, knowledge, and individuals’ behavioral health intentions, which is related to COVID-19 prevention practices adherence. Thus, it is relevant to develop psychometric measures for COVID-19 anxiety, misconceptions, knowled...
Climate change poses a threat to human survival, and global efforts are necessary to combat rising temperatures and the effects of climate change on human health. Developing countries with a large informal sector workforce and highly physical jobs frequently carried out under hot temperatures with inadequate safety regulations may see greater effec...
Objective: Rapid population growth has increased tons of waste generated daily in the various Ghanaian districts. A total of 9,331kg of household waste is generated daily in the Tain District, but managing it becomes a challenge. The aim of the study was to investigate households' waste management practice in the Tain District of Ghana. Method: A c...
Mathematics anxiety (MA) has a debilitating impact on learning, achievement, mental health, and the future career life of students. Though MA is a popular research theme, there is little agreement among researchers regarding the cross-cultural effect of gender. The purpose of this paper was to explore the perceived MA differences among males and fe...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is known to place a burden of fear upon individuals in the affected communities. This is mainly due to the unregulated circulation of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fear messages on social media. During a three-week partial lockdown of some cities in Ghana, with high rate of COVID-19 cases, many s...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is known to place a burden of fear upon individuals in the affected communities. This is mainly due to the unregulated circulation of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fear messages on social media. During a three-week partial lockdown of some cities in Ghana, with high rate of COVID-19 cases, many s...
Abstract
Introduction: the COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated many public health preventive measures including lockdowns or curfews. However, because humans are used to working and moving up and down, they would need to find ways to avert the negatives associated with the COVID-19 induced lockdown. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to qualit...
Objectives: This study examined factors that influence the use of Electronic Medical
Records (EMR) in public hospitals in the Eastern Region of Ghana.
Methods: Three hundred and sixty (360) healthcare professionals were surveyed from the
various public healthcare facilities in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The participants included physicians, physi...
The objective of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) and job resources (JR) on the relationship between job demands (JD) and health of the fuel customer attendants in Accra. A sample of 876 fuel attendants from the four biggest Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) in Ghana was studied using a questionna...
Mathematics anxiety (MA) is one of the debilitating learning challenges that affect both academic performance and future career development of every student. Though mathematics anxiety is a popular issue, little is known about the anxiety shown by Ukrainian students toward mathematics evaluation. To explore this, a mediation analysis was conducted...
Grit is consistency of interest, perseverance and passion for long-term goal in a chosen activity, which normally translates into better acievements. Grittier athletes are assumed to be more safety conscious since they want to produce better performance in competitions. Therefore, this study explored the influence of university student-athletes' pe...
Living a healthy lifestyle is a panacea to quality of life. As many people live healthy lifestyles, the national development is positively affected. This paper examined the role of active lifestyles in healthy living and national development. It first examined the concept of lifestyle in relation to health. Healthy lifestyle is viewed as life choic...
Abstract
Background: Self-rated health and physiological markers have been used separately in several research studies to measure the health status of individuals. Though the health status of fisherfolks is likely to be challenged because of the nature of their job, research is limited in the use of both self-rated health and physiological markers...
The purpose of this study was to determine the level of psychosocial safety climate (PSC) at fuel stations in Accra and test the paths via which PSC predicts health and safety of the attendants. We surveyed 876 conveniently sampled attendants from four major Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs). A questionnaire derived from three pre-existing ones (PSC-1...
Contemporary business growth and sustainability demands high organizational psychosocial safety climate (PSC). It precedes and promotes the job resources, the two which also promote the health and safety of the workers. However, at the typical workplace, job demands has adverse effect on the health and safety of the workers. This reduces morale, in...
Despite the fact that behavior of coaches is critical towards optimal development and performance of athletes, there still remains a dearth of empirical evidence involving self-perceptions of competitive athletes at elite level. The purpose of the present study was to examine athletes' perceptions related patterns and gender differences specific to...
Organizational safety climate (PSC) is seen as an antecedent factor to most workplace occurrences including health and safety of the workers. This presentation described the role of PSC in predicting the health and safety of the fuel station attendants in Ghana. The health and safety challenges at the downstream oil sector in Ghana seem mountain, t...
Workers of fuel retail industry are exposed to many hazards as result of their job and behaviors. Management's safety practices are important workplace preventive measures to reducing health and safety hazards. The purpose of this study was to explore the level of safety behaviors among pump attendants and the relationship between attendants' safet...
Workers of fuel retail industry are exposed to many hazards as result of their job and behaviors. Management’s safety practices are important workplace preventive measures to reducing health and safety hazards. The purpose of this study was to explore the level of safety behaviors among pump attendants and the relationship between attendants’ safet...
This was my Maters' Thesis which explored relationship between occupational health and safety management practices of OMCs and safety behaviours of fuel pump attendants in the oil found region of Ghana.
The purpose of this was to assess the obesity status among primary school pupils in Cape Coast, Ghana. A secondary purpose was to establish the differences in obesity status between male and female pupils. Two hundred and eighty -nine primary school pupils (males = 123, females = 166) were purposively selected for the study. Center for Disease Cont...
The objective of this study was to (1) determine the physical activity (PA) levels of university administrative staff and (2) explore perceived environmental factors associated with meeting the current public health recommendations for PA. This cross-sectional survey involved 318 university administrative staff of the University of Cape Coast, Ghan...
Habits formed during schooling are probably the strongest that influence individuals throughout life. It is always the intention of curriculum planners that, habits formed by students as a result of schooling be positive to promote healthy lifestyle in the future. However, nothing is documented on the pre-practical physical activity habits of physi...
This study assessed the safety management practices in place for fuel service station attendants in the Central and Western Regions of Ghana. A purposive sample of 114 pump attendants was selected from Allied Oil (23), Goil (32), Shell (29), and Total (30) Petroleum. A researcher generated questionnaire with a Cronbach alpha of .80 was used for dat...
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I need the 2015 Official Netball Rules. Can someone assist?
I am attempting to explore levels of safety management practices in some industrial sectors of the economy. And to see if lack of a comprehensive occupational health and safety policy plays any role in the levels of safety management practices and worker protection in these industries.
Projects
Projects (9)
This project intends to collect data, study and compare the motor proficiency levels of primary school children from Ghana and Saudi Arabia. We intend using the Bruininks-Oseretsky test of motor proficiency, (BOT-2) as the tool for data collection. The study will among other aims validate the BOT-2 using the data from the two countries.
Goal:
To explore the lived experiences of individuals in lockdown cities using phenomenological analysis.
Areas to be explored include;
1. Family bonding and conflict
2. Sexuality
3. Fear, worry and panic
4. Sedentary lifestyle
5. Creativity and innovation
Fear affects health-seeking behaviours differently across cultures and disease context.
Goal:
To investigate the level of fear people have toward the COVID-19 infection and how that is affecting the practice of health-seeking behaviours during this pandemic.
The project aims to elicit responses across cultures using an online survey. If you're interested to collaborate in the data collection, please send a message to Jacob (sarfojo@gmail.com)
