Lucky Tomdi

• PhD Student at University of Saskatchewan

The incidence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, hypertension, cancers and cardiovascular diseases in Ghana has created a new mix of healthcare challenge for the country. Owing to the fact that NCDs have caused significant illness and deaths for decades and robbed people off their social satisfaction in life, several heal...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes are reported to have caused significant deaths for more than a decade. Consequently, NCDs have posed as a threat to the socio-economic well-being of individuals and families, contributed to a rise in healthcare costs and largely undermined the attainment of the Sustainabl...

The cultural values of any group of people correlates with their practice of medicine. Cultural values in the Kwawu community and the world at large has gone through a cornucopia of changes over time. In this vein, the practice of medicine and healing in the Kwawu community which are embedded and constructed culturally have experienced some changes...

Missions have played numerous developmental roles towards the achievement of economic and social goals including the provision of healthcare. From their entry into Africa, they have employed numerous methods in order to win significant number of converts into their faith. The construction of schools and hospitals, engagement in public health campai...

Several pandemics have been reported throughout history. The Black Death, Spanish flu, SARs and MERs among many others have received attention by earlier and recent scholarships due to their impact on humanity. Before the outbreak of COVID-19, scholars anticipated future outbreaks with the same, if not greater, impact. The coronavirus which spread...

This chapter analyses dilemmas during the outbreak of epidemic and pandemic diseases within the construct of the practitioner-patient relationship. In the process, we examine the likely impact of the current pandemic on the interactions between health workers and patients, especially in less resourced settings. We also discuss the sociopolitical an...

The incidence of diseases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) shaped encounters between colonial officials and indigenous people, yet this subject has merited minimum attention in the Ghanaian historiography. This paper examines the colonial healthcare interventions to combat the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in Asante and how the presence o...

NCDs conditions such as hypertension and diabetes have featured in the top ten causes of mortalities and hospital admissions in Ghana for the past three decades. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, emerging evidence indicate that persons living with NCDs conditions, especially hypertension and diabetes suffered from severe COVID-19 compl...

From the mid-nineteenth century, the people of the Gold Coast formed an essential component of the missionary and early colonial medical services (CMS). The labour of the people was mainly confined to the category of medical auxiliaries. Enlisting these African auxiliaries into the medical service took place within gendered, racial and class bounda...

From economic, through politics to domestic support, women have been the major engineers of valuable roles towards the development of every culture. Historically, their impacts in medicine and healthcare in general have been evident across time and space. Prior to European influx and the modernization of healthcare in Ghana, women delivered such ro...

The health system of Ghana is marked with a history of inequality, specifically with resource allocation between the rural and urban spaces. The historical trajectory of health inequality is seen as a product of colonial approaches to public health interventions at the intersection of racial discrimination where colonial governments prioritised the...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on human interactions deeply affected the sense of humour of individuals. Using a social media research approach, this article analyses social media data in order to understand how social media users related with COVID-19. We sought to address the various events that generated humour among Ghanaians during the pa...

This paper pays attention to colonial strategies that were deployed to fight against the influenza pandemic among the Asante of Ghana. It does a comparative analysis of the outbreak and mode of spread of COVID-19 and influenza pandemics in Ghana and Asante, in particular. Based on the theory of lesson-drawing, the authors aimed to ascertain whether...

Akyem Abuakwa is one of the largest states of the Akan ethnic group in Ghana. Notwithstanding its size and important contribution to Ghana’s development, historians have paid little attention in doing academic research on the health history of the people. Using a qualitative method of research, this paper does a historical study on public health po...

Societies that have accepted Islam have blended their native culture with what was, rightly and wrongly, linked to Islam. Here, we present an example of this combination concerning traditional healing processes in Muslim societies. Focusing on the Aboabo community, we did an ethnographic study of healing processes and rites used by healers and furt...

The disruption of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has inevitably permeated almost every sphere of life across the globe. The pandemic, apart from endangering lives and causing discomfort, has admittedly threatened the gains made from health. In Africa, concerns were raised on the duration that African health systems, variously described a...

Healthcare delivery issues are managerial though they are sometimes tied to national policies. There is therefore the call for effective management practices in healthcare facilities. However, there is no specific management training system for doctors and other staff who become chief executive officers of these facilities. This paper evaluates the...