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List of works by Isaac Luginaah

"I was on the way to the hospital but delivered in the bush": Maternal health in Ghana's Upper West Region in the context of a traditional birth attendants' ban.

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

"It's Like a Disease": Women's perceptions of caesarean sections in Ghana's Upper West Region.

scientific article

"My House Is the Hospital": Housing and Health and Wellbeing among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Northern Malawi

scientific article published on January 2015

A geographical analysis of breast cancer clustering in southern Ontario: generating hypotheses on environmental influences

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A longitudinal study of the health impacts of a petroleum refinery

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A systematic review of resource habitat taboos and human health outcomes in the context of global environmental change

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Abandoning land in search of farms: challenges of subsistence migrant farming in Ghana

scholarly article by Vincent Z. Kuuire et al published 5 June 2015 in Agriculture and Human Values

Agroecology and healthy food systems in semi-humid tropical Africa: Participatory research with vulnerable farming households in Malawi

scientific article

Agroecology and sustainable food systems: Participatory research to improve food security among HIV-affected households in northern Malawi

scientific article

Air pollution and daily hospitalization rates for cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in London, Ontario

scientific article

Air pollution and general practitioner access and utilization: a population based study in Sarnia, 'Chemical Valley,' Ontario

scientific article

An Assessment of Residents’ Housing Satisfaction and Coping in Accra, Ghana

research work

Analyzing the Relationship between Objective–Subjective Health Status and Public Perception of Climate Change as a Human Health Risk in Coastal Tanzania

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Artisanal small-scale mining and mercury pollution in Ghana: a critical examination of a messy minerals and gold mining policy

scholarly article by Frederick A. Armah et al published 17 August 2013 in Journal of environmental studies and sciences

Assessing barriers to adaptation to climate change in coastal Tanzania: Does where you live matter?

scholarly article by Frederick A. Armah et al published 8 February 2015 in Population and Environment

Assessing environmental exposure and health impacts of gold mining in Ghana

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Assessing the bio-psychosocial correlates of flood impacts in coastal areas of Lagos, Nigeria

Assessing the distribution of volatile organic compounds using land use regression in Sarnia, "Chemical Valley", Ontario, Canada

scientific article

Assessing the spatial distribution of nitrogen dioxide in London, Ontario

scientific article published on November 2012

Assessing traffic and industrial contributions to ambient nitrogen dioxide and volatile organic compounds in a low pollution urban environment

scientific article published on 25 May 2015

Assessment of cancer and noncancer health risks from exposure to PAHs in street dust in the Tamale Metropolis, Ghana

scientific article published on January 2013

Association of Arsenic and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes/Infant Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

scientific article

Association of ambient air pollution with respiratory hospitalization in a government-designated "area of concern": the case of Windsor, Ontario

scientific article

Associations between air pollution and cardio-respiratory physiological measures in older adults exercising outdoors

scientific article published on 12 December 2019

Associations between pesticide use and respiratory symptoms: A cross-sectional study in Southern Ghana

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Associations between self-reported odour annoyance and volatile organic compounds in 'Chemical Valley', Sarnia, Ontario

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Associations of physician supplies with breast cancer stage at diagnosis and survival in Ontario, 1988 to 2006.

scientific article

Associations of physician supplies with colon cancer care in Ontario and California, 1996 to 2006

scientific article

Better colon cancer care for extremely poor Canadian women compared with American women

scientific article

Beyond ecological synergies: examining the impact of participatory agroecology on social capital in smallholder farming communities

scientific article published in 2019

Breast Cancer Care in California and Ontario: Primary Care Protections Greatest Among the Most Socioeconomically Vulnerable Women Living in the Most Underserved Places

scientific article

Breast Cancer among Women Living in Poverty: Better Care in Canada than in the United States

scientific article published in May 2015

Breast cancer care in the Canada and the United States: ecological comparisons of extremely impoverished and affluent urban neighborhoods

scientific article

Breast cancer risk in relation to occupations with exposure to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors: a Canadian case-control study

journal article published in 2012

Breast cancer survival in ontario and california, 1998-2006: socioeconomic inequity remains much greater in the United States

scientific article

COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Can she make it? Transportation barriers to accessing maternal and child health care services in rural Ghana

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Cardio-Respiratory Effects of Air Pollution in a Panel Study of Outdoor Physical Activity and Health in Rural Older Adults.

scientific article published on April 2017

Care and survival of Mexican American women with node negative breast cancer: historical cohort evidence of health insurance and barrio advantages

scientific article published on June 2015

Challenges of a pandemic: HIV/AIDS-related problems affecting Kenyan widows.

scientific article

Characterization of macro-benthic fauna for ecological health status of the Fosu and Benya lagoons in coastal Ghana

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Circumcision Status and Time to Sexual Debut Among Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Six Demographic and Health Surveys

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Circumcision status and time to first sex among never-married young men in Malawi: evidence from the demographic and health survey

scientific article published in July 2013

Colon cancer care and survival: income and insurance are more predictive in the USA, community primary care physician supply more so in Canada

scientific article

Community health impacts of surface mining in the Upper West Region of Ghana: The roles of mining odors and dust

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Community perceptions and misconceptions of motorcycle accident risks in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Community reappraisal of the perceived health effects of a petroleum refinery

scientific article

Community responses and coping strategies in the vicinity of a petroleum refinery in Oakville, Ontario

scientific article

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) with indigenous communities: producing respectful and reciprocal research

scientific article published in April 2013

Consumption and impacts of local brewed alcohol (akpeteshie) in the Upper West Region of Ghana: a public health tragedy

scientific article published in November 2003

Continuing Professional Development in Maternal Health Care: Barriers to Applying New Knowledge and Skills in the Hospitals of Rwanda

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Cumulative effects of noise and odour annoyances on environmental and health related quality of life

scientific article published on 21 October 2015

Debated agronomy: public discourse and the future of biotechnology policy in Ghana.

scientific article published on 22 February 2017

Determinants of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents in Central African Republic, Eswatini and Ghana: evidence from multi-indicator cluster surveys

journal article from 'African Journal of AIDS Research' published in 2019

Does Previous Experience of Floods Stimulate the Adoption of Coping Strategies? Evidence from Cross Sectional Surveys in Nigeria and Tanzania

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EXPLAINING THE GAP IN ANTENATAL CARE SERVICE UTILIZATION BETWEEN YOUNGER AND OLDER MOTHERS IN GHANA

scholarly article by Sheila A. Boamah et al published 10 July 2015 in Journal of Biosocial Science

Effectiveness of interventions to reduce household air pollution and/or improve health in homes using solid fuel in low-and-middle income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Effectiveness of interventions to reduce indoor air pollution and/or improve health in homes using solid fuel in lower and middle income countries: Protocol for a systematic review

scientific article

Effects of socioeconomic status on colon cancer treatment accessibility and survival in Toronto, Ontario, and San Francisco, California, 1996-2006.

scientific article

Electronic Waste is a Mess: Awareness and Proenvironmental Behavior Among University Students in Ghana

scholarly article by John K. E. Edumadze et al published October 2013 in Applied Environmental Education and Communication

Erratum to “Challenges of a pandemic: HIV/AIDS-related problems affecting Kenyan widows”

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Establishing the spatial variability of ambient nitrogen dioxide in Windsor, Ontario

Evaluating the complex interactions between malaria and cholera prevalence, neglected tropical disease comorbidities, and community perception of health risks of climate change

scholarly article by Sheila A. Boamah et al published 7 July 2017 in Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Examining risk factors for hypertension in Ghana: evidence from the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Examining the Risk Factors Associated With Hypertension Among the Elderly in Ghana

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Examining the association between exposure to mass media and health insurance enrolment in Ghana

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Exposure to mass media family planning messages among post-delivery women in Nigeria: testing the structural influence model of health communication

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Extending HIV/AIDS-Prevention Efforts in Kenya: Primary Schools as Community-Based Organizations

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Extricating sex and gender in air pollution research: a community-based study on cardinal symptoms of exposure

scientific article published on 22 August 2013

Factors associated with voluntary testing for HBV in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Financial sustainability versus access and quality in a challenged health system: an examination of the capitation policy debate in Ghana

scientific article

First-hand experience of extreme climate events and household energy conservation in coastal Cambodia

scholarly article by Mengieng Ung et al published 22 March 2017 in Climate and Development

Food as a social determinant of mental health among household heads in the Upper West Region of Ghana

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

From mandatory to voluntary testing: balancing human rights, religious and cultural values, and HIV/AIDS prevention in Ghana.

scientific article

Gender differences on the interacting effects of marital status and health insurance on long-term colon cancer survival in California, 1995-2014.

scientific article published on 06 August 2016

Gendered inequalities within Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: are poor women being penalized with a late renewal policy?

scientific article published in August 2014

Genetically modified organisms and the age of (Un) reason? A critical examination of the rhetoric in the GMO public policy debates in Ghana

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Gestational age at first antenatal visit in Namibia.

scientific article

Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: Helping the Poor or Leaving Them Behind?

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Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: a national level investigation of members' perceptions of service provision

scientific article

Growing up an orphan: vulnerability of adolescent girls to HIV in Malawi

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Health geography in Canada: where are we headed?

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Health insurance mediation of the Mexican American non-Hispanic white disparity on early breast cancer diagnosis

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

Health-seeking behaviour during times of illness: a study among adults in a resource poor setting in Ghana.

scientific article published in December 2016

Hepatitis B in Ghana's upper west region: a hidden epidemic in need of national policy attention

scientific article published on 12 June 2013

Historical perspective and risk of multiple neglected tropical diseases in coastal Tanzania: Compositional and contextual determinants of disease risk

scientific article published on 4 August 2015

Housing and health in Ghana: the psychosocial impacts of renting a home

scientific article

Housing and health in three contrasting neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana

scientific article published on 21 April 2011

Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership Trajectories: An Analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants in Canada from 2001 to 2005

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Impact of a participatory agroecological development project on household wealth and food security in Malawi

Impact of air pollution on hospital admissions in Southwestern Ontario, Canada: generating hypotheses in sentinel high-exposure places

scientific article published on 5 July 2007

Income and long-term breast cancer survival: comparisons of vulnerable urban places in Ontario and California

scientific article

Increased racial differences on breast cancer care and survival in America: historical evidence consistent with a health insurance hypothesis, 1975-2001

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Increased use of recommended maternal health care as a determinant of immunization and appropriate care for fever and diarrhoea in Ghana: an analysis pooling three demographic and health surveys

scientific article published on 22 August 2014

Indoor Air Pollution and Health in Ghana: Self-Reported Exposure to Unprocessed Solid Fuel Smoke

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Informing the development of decision support tools for risk management: the case of electrical and magnetic fields

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Integrated agriculture programs to address malnutrition in northern Malawi

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Interfering with therapeutic tranquility: Debates surrounding biosolid waste processing in rural Ontario

scientific article published on 16 August 2016

Investigating the Timing of First Sexual Intercourse Among Youth in EDO State, Nigeria in the Context of the Aids Epidemic

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Investigating the association between pregnancy intention and insecticide-treated bed net (ITN) use: a cross-sectional study of pregnant women in Rwanda

scholarly article by Nandini Thogarapalli et al published 3 June 2015 in Journal of Public Health: Zeitschrift fuer Gesundheitswissenschaften

Investigating the disparities in cervical cancer screening among Namibian women

scientific article

Is active travel a breath of fresh air? Examining children's exposure to air pollution during the school commute

scientific article published on 06 April 2019

Is the Pro-Poor Premium Exemption Policy of Ghana’s NHIS Reducing Disparities Among the Elderly?

Knowledge of sexual partner's HIV serostatus and the practice of safer sex among heterosexual men of African descent in London, Ontario

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Lack of access to chemotherapy for colon cancer: multiplicative disadvantage of being extremely poor, inadequately insured and African American

scientific article

Landscapes of Economic Deprivation and Locally Distilled Liquor (Kachasu): An Emerging Milieu of HIV/AIDS Risk in Urban Northern Malawi

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Local gin (akpeteshie) and HIV/AIDS in the Upper West Region of Ghana: the need for preventive health policy

scientific article

Management challenges of urban biosolids: narratives around facility siting in rural Ontario

Management of natural resources in a conflicting environment in Ghana: unmasking a messy policy problem

scholarly article by Frederick A. Armah et al published 3 October 2013 in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Mediation of the effects of living in extremely poor neighborhoods by health insurance: breast cancer care and survival in California, 1996 to 2011.

scientific article published on 14 January 2013

Meeting health need, accessing health care: the role of neighbourhood

scientific article published in December 2005

Mining, conflicts and livelihood struggles in a dysfunctional policy environment: the case of Wassa West District, Ghana

scholarly article by Joseph Taabazuing et al published June 2012 in African Geographical Review

Monitored versus experience-based perceptions of environmental change: evidence from coastal Tanzania

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Mothers' perceptions and experiences of using maternal health care services in Rwanda

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Multiplicative disadvantage of being an unmarried and inadequately insured woman living in poverty with colon cancer: historical cohort exploration in California

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National health insurance scheme enrolment and antenatal care among women in Ghana: is there any relationship?

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Negotiation for safer sex among married women in Cambodia: the role of women's autonomy

scientific article

Neighborhood structural differences and women's mental health: an empirical study in Accra, Ghana

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Obesity and the burden of health risks among the elderly in Ghana: A population study

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Obligations and Expectations: Perceived Relationship between Transnational Housing Investment and Housing Consumption Decisions among Ghanaian Immigrants in Canada

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Occupation and Breast Cancer: A Canadian Case-Control Study

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Orphan status and time to first sex among adolescents in northern Malawi

scientific article published in March 2013

Orphans in Nyanza, Kenya

scholarly article by Tamara Landry et al published 20 July 2007 in Journal of HIV/AIDS prevention in children & youth

Out of the frying pan into the fire? Urban penalty of the poor and multiple barriers to climate change adaptation in Cambodia and Tanzania

scholarly article by Frederick A. Armah et al published 1 October 2015 in Journal of environmental studies and sciences

Perceptions of climate change impacts and self-rated health in coastal Cambodia

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Persistent misconceptions about HIV transmission among males and females in Malawi

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Physician supply and breast cancer survival

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Powers of exclusion and counter-exclusion: The political ecology of ethno-territorial customary land boundary conflicts in Ghana

Reducing HIV misconceptions among females and males in Malawi: are we making progress?

scientific article published on 16 February 2020

Residential Remittances and Food Security in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Residential Spaces and Timing of First Sexual Intercourse Among Never-Married Youths in Nigeria

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Same problem, conflicting ‘truths’: rethinking the missing links in forest degradation narrativization in Ghana

scholarly article by Moses Kansanga et al published 19 December 2017 in African Geographical Review

Shrinkage estimation in general linear models

Silence of the leaders: alcohol policy-making in Malawi

scholarly article by Faith Nankasa Mambulu et al published 16 February 2015 in African Geographical Review

Social, prognostic, and therapeutic factors associated with cancer survival: a population-based study in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan

scientific article

Spatial Variability of Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide in Sarnia, “Chemical Valley,” Ontario, Canada

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Spatial variability and application of ratios between BTEX in two Canadian cities.

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Spatial variability of volatile organic compound concentrations in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

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Spatio-temporal disparities in maternal health service utilization in Rwanda: What next for SDGs?

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Surrounded by Chemical Valley and ‘living in a bubble’: the case of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, Ontario

article published in 2010

The Influences of Health Insurance and Access to Information on Prostate Cancer Screening among Men in Dominican Republic

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana's Upper West Region: a gendered perspective of insurance acquisition in a resource-poor setting

scientific article

The geography of diabetes in London, Canada: the need for local level policy for prevention and management

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The impact of 9/11 on the association of ambient air pollution with daily respiratory hospital admissions in a Canada-US border city, Windsor, Ontario

scientific article published on August 2006

The next Sub Saharan African epidemic? A case study of the determinants of cervical cancer knowledge and screening in Kenya

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

The paradox of water accessibility: understanding the temporal and spatial dimensions of access to improved water sources in Rwanda

scholarly article by Lydia Osei et al published 26 November 2015 in Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development

The relationship between odour annoyance scores and modelled ambient air pollution in Sarnia, "Chemical Valley", Ontario

scientific article published on 16 October 2009

The unusual suspects? Perception of underlying causes of anthropogenic climate change in coastal communities in Cambodia and Tanzania

scientific article published on 23 February 2017

Timing and utilisation of antenatal care service in Nigeria and Malawi

scientific article published in June 2017

Timing and utilization of antenatal care services in Liberia: Understanding the pre-Ebola epidemic context

scientific article

To Move or not to Move: Community Members’ Reaction to Surface Mining Activities in the Upper West Region of Ghana

Transnationalism-integration nexus: Examining the relationship between transnational housing investment and homeownership status in Canada

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Trends and variations in perinatal mortality and low birthweight: the contribution of socio-economic factors.

scientific article published in November 1999

Utilisation of skilled birth attendants over time in Nigeria and Malawi.

scientific article published in June 2017

What Prevents Men Aged 40-64 Years from Prostate Cancer Screening in Namibia?

scientific article published on 10 January 2016

Who are the losers? Gendered-migration, climate change, and the impact of large scale land acquisitions on food security in coastal Tanzania

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Who you know, where you live: social capital, neighbourhood and health

scientific article published on 25 December 2004

Women's household decision-making autonomy and safer sex negotiation in Nigeria: An analysis of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey

scientific article published on 07 August 2017

Women’s Empowerment in the Context of Millennium Development Goal 3: A Case Study of Married Women in Ghana

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Working conditions of male and female artisanal and small-scale goldminers in Ghana: Examining existing disparities

scholarly article by Frederick A. Armah et al published April 2016 in The Extractive Industries and Society

‘Abandoning’ farms in search of food: food remittance and household food security in Ghana

scholarly article by Vincent Kuuire et al published December 2013 in African Geographical Review

‘At risk by fact of birth’: perceptions and concerns about medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in northern Malawi

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‘What we were running from is what we’re facing again’: examining the paradox of migration as a livelihood improvement strategy among migrant women farmers in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana

“This is the mess that we are living in”: residents everyday life experiences of living in a stigmatized community

“You Either Pay More Advance Rent or You Move Out”: Landlords/Ladies’ and Tenants’ Dilemmas in the Low-income Housing Market in Accra, Ghana

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