Research projects demonstrating ways to improve health services often fail to have an
impact on what national health programmes actually do. An approach to evidence-based …

Empowerment, a multi-level construct comprising individual, community and organizational
domains, is a fundamental value and goal in health promotion. While a range of scales have …

Population health strategies tend to focus on individuals' behaviors, genes, or health care
access, yet it is well established that socioecological conditions are fundamental to health …

Abstract Located in the Kassena-Nankana districts of northern Ghana, the Navrongo health
and demographic surveillance system (NHDSS) was established in 1992 by the Navrongo …

Abstract The Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) was
set up in Korogocho and Viwandani slum settlements to provide a platform for investigating …

Background In the developed world, information on vital events is routinely collected
nationally to inform population and health policies. However, in many low-and middle …

Background During the 1990s, researchers at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in
northern Ghana developed a highly successful community health program. The keystone of …

The extent of men's roles in reproductive decision-making in Africa is a subject of contention.
Despite the volume of work on the roles men play in fertility decisions, there have been few …

The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project is a quasi‐experimental
study designed to test the hypothesis that introducing health and family planning services in …

The poor performance of most family planning programs in the 1980s, especially in sub‐
Saharan Africa, generated concern among researchers and led to a quest for explanations …