Yetsa Tuakli-Wosornu

Yale University | YU · Department of Public Health

Health and ill health are critical concepts in public health with far reaching socio-political implications. Notwithstanding, conceptualizing health has been challenging as there appears to be no definitional consensus. A related challenge is finding a sociologically, politically, spiritually, and culturally-sound cleavage between health as defined...

The risk of lifestyle-related diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and cancer is approximately four times higher for those with impairment, compared to those without impairment. Vision impairment in particular, is associated with increased risk of mortality and morbidity in adulthood, partly due to reduced levels of p...

Purpose: Over one billion people with disabilities (PWDs) and older adults with mobility impairment are currently in need of assistive technology devices (ATDs) and only 10% of those population have ordinarily access to them. The need for advancement in mobility-assistive technology is growing to address the gap in ATDs provision globally. The purp...