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Reginald Quansah
Researcher at University of Ghana
Publications - 65
Citations - 16151
Reginald Quansah is an academic researcher from University of Ghana. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 51 publications receiving 12580 citations. Previous affiliations of Reginald Quansah include University of Oulu & Luleå University of Technology.
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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
Reginald Quansah,Sean Semple,Caroline Ochieng,Sanjar Juvekar,Frederick Ato Armah,Isaac Luginaah,Jacques B. O. Emina +6 more
TL;DR: The findings on health outcomes were inconclusive and care should be taken in concluding that HAP interventions - as currently designed and implemented - support reductions in the average kitchen and personal levels of PM and CO.
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Integrated assessment of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Ghana--part 1: human health review.
Niladri Basu,Edith Clarke,Allyson Green,Benedict Calys-Tagoe,Laurie Chan,Mawuli Dzodzomenyo,Julius N. Fobil,Rachel N. Long,Richard L. Neitzel,Samuel Obiri,Eric Odei,Lauretta Ovadje,Reginald Quansah,Reginald Quansah,Mozhgon Rajaee,Mark L. Wilson +15 more
TL;DR: The results provide evidence from across multiple Ghanaian ASGM sites that document relatively high exposures to mercury and other heavy metals, occupational injuries and noise exposure, and limited data on psychosocial health, nutrition, cardiovascular and respiratory health, sexual health, and water and sanitation.
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Comparative Assessment of Heavy Metals in Drinking Water Sources in Two Small-Scale Mining Communities in Northern Ghana
TL;DR: Levels of Hg, As, Pb, Zn, and Cd in water from Nangodi exceeded the World Health Organisation (WHO) stipulated limits of 3.0 for Zn and 0.003 for Cd for drinking water, and levels in Tinga exceeded the stipulated WHO limits.
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Quantifying risks and interventions that have affected the burden of lower respiratory infections among children younger than 5 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
Christopher Troeger,Ibrahim A Khalil,Brigette F. Blacker,Molly H Biehl,Samuel B. Albertson,Stephanie R M Zimsen,Puja C Rao,Degu Abate,Amha Admasie,Alireza Ahmadi,Mohamed Lemine Cheikh brahim Ahmed,Chalachew Genet Akal,Fares Alahdab,Noore Alam,Kefyalew Addis Alene,Vahid Alipour,Syed Mohamed Aljunid,Rajaa Al-Raddadi,Nelson Alvis-Guzman,Saeed Amini,Mina Anjomshoa,Carl Abelardo T. Antonio,Jalal Arabloo,Olatunde Aremu,Hagos Tasew Atalay,Suleman Atique,Euripide Frinel G Arthur Avokpaho,Samah Awad,Ashish Awasthi,Alaa Badawi,Kalpana Balakrishnan,Joseph Adel Mattar Banoub,Aleksandra Barac,Quique Bassat,Neeraj Bedi,Derrick A Bennett,Krittika Bhattacharyya,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Ali Bijani,Corey B. Bills,Josip Car,Félix Carvalho,Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela,Kate Causey,Devasahayam J. Christopher,Aaron Cohen,Lalit Dandona,Rakhi Dandona,Ahmad Daryani,Feleke Mekonnen Demeke,Shirin Djalalinia,Manisha Dubey,Eleonora Dubljanin,Eyasu Ejeta Duken,Maysaa El Sayed Zaki,Aman Yesuf Endries,Eduarda Fernandes,Florian Fischer,Joseph Frostad,Nancy Fullman,William M. Gardner,Birhanu Geta,Keyghobad Ghadiri,Giuseppe Gorini,Alessandra C. Goulart,Yuming Guo,Gessessew Bugssa Hailu,Arvin Haj-Mirzaian,Arya Haj-Mirzaian,Samer Hamidi,Hamid Yimam Hassen,Chi Linh Hoang,Nobuyuki Horita,Mihaela Hostiuc,Zakir Hussain,Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani,Spencer L. James,Ravi Prakash Jha,Jost B. Jonas,André Karch,Amir Kasaeian,Tesfaye Dessale Kassa,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Adane Teshome Kefale,Yousef Khader,Ejaz Ahmad Khan,Gulfaraz Khan,Nuruzzaman Khan,Young-Ho Khang,Abdullah T Khoja,Ruth W Kimokoti,Adnan Kisa,Sezer Kisa,Niranjan Kissoon,Luke D. Knibbs,Sonali Kochhar,Soewarta Kosen,Parvaiz A Koul,Ai Koyanagi,Barthelemy Kuate Defo,G Anil Kumar,Dharmesh Kumar Lal,Cheru Tesema Leshargie,Sonia Lewycka,Shanshan Li,Rakesh Lodha,Erlyn Rachelle King Macarayan,Marek Majdan,Abdullah Al Mamun,Helena Manguerra,Varshil Mehta,Addisu Melese,Ziad A. Memish,Desalegn Tadese Mengistu,Tuomo J. Meretoja,Tomislav Mestrovic,Bartosz Miazgowski,Erkin M. Mirrakhimov,Babak Moazen,Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad,Shafiu Mohammed,Lorenzo Monasta,Catrin E. Moore,Lidia Morawska,Jonathan F. Mosser,Seyyed Meysam Mousavi,Srinivas Murthy,Ghulam Mustafa,Javad Nazari,Cuong Tat Nguyen,Huong Lan Thi Nguyen,Long Hoang Nguyen,Son Hoang Nguyen,Katie R Nielsen,Muhammad Imran Nisar,Molly R Nixon,Felix Akpojene Ogbo,Anselm Okoro,Andrew T Olagunju,Tinuke O Olagunju,Eyal Oren,Justin R. Ortiz,Mahesh P A,Smita Pakhale,Maarten J. Postma,Mostafa Qorbani,Reginald Quansah,Alireza Rafiei,Fakher Rahim,Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar,Rajesh Kumar Rai,Marissa B Reitsma,Mohammad Sadegh Rezai,Aziz Rezapour,Maria Jesus Rios-Blancas,Luca Ronfani,Dietrich Rothenbacher,Salvatore Rubino,Zikria Saleem,Evanson Z. Sambala,Abdallah M. Samy,Milena M Santric Milicevic,Rodrigo Sarmiento-Suarez,Benn Sartorius,Miloje Savic,Monika Sawhney,Sonia Saxena,Alyssa N. Sbarra,Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi,Masood Ali Shaikh,Aziz Sheikh,Mika Shigematsu,David L. Smith,Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy,Jeffrey D. Stanaway,Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan,Mohamad-Hani Temsah,Belay Tessema,Bach Xuan Tran,Khanh Bao Tran,Afewerki Gebremeskel Tsadik,Irfan Ullah,Rachel L Updike,Tommi Vasankari,Yousef Veisani,Fiseha Wadilo Wada,Yasir Waheed,Katie Welgan,Kirsten E. Wiens,Charles Shey Wiysonge,Ebrahim M Yimer,Naohiro Yonemoto,Zoubida Zaidi,Heather J. Zar,Stephen S Lim,Theo Vos,Ali H. Mokdad,Christopher J L Murray,Hmwe H Kyu,Simon I. Hay,Robert Reiner +200 more
TL;DR: The findings show that there have been substantial but uneven declines in LRI mortality among countries between 1990 and 2017 and changes in exposure to modifiable risk factors are related to the rates of decline in L RI mortality.
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Quantifying risks and interventions that have affected the burden of diarrhoea among children younger than 5 years: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
Christopher Troeger,Ibrahim A Khalil,Brigette F. Blacker,Molly H Biehl,Samuel B. Albertson,Stephanie R M Zimsen,Puja C Rao,Degu Abate,Alireza Ahmadi,Mohamed Lemine Cheikh brahim Ahmed,Chalachew Genet Akal,Fares Alahdab,Noore Alam,Kefyalew Addis Alene,Vahid Alipour,Syed Mohamed Aljunid,Rajaa Al-Raddadi,Nelson Alvis-Guzman,Saeed Amini,Nahla Anber,Mina Anjomshoa,Carl Abelardo T. Antonio,Jalal Arabloo,Olatunde Aremu,Hagos Tasew Atalay,Suleman Atique,Euripide Frinel G Arthur Avokpaho,Samah Awad,Ashish Awasthi,Alaa Badawi,Kalpana Balakrishnan,Joseph Adel Mattar Banoub,Aleksandra Barac,Quique Bassat,Neeraj Bedi,Derrick A Bennett,Krittika Bhattacharyya,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Ali Bijani,Josip Car,Félix Carvalho,Carlos A Castañeda-Orjuela,Devasahayam J. Christopher,Lalit Dandona,Rakhi Dandona,Ahmad Daryani,Feleke Mekonnen Demeke,Aniruddha Deshpande,Shirin Djalalinia,Manisha Dubey,Eleonora Dubljanin,Eyasu Ejeta Duken,Maysaa El Sayed Zaki,Aman Yesuf Endries,Eduarda Fernandes,Florian Fischer,Nancy Fullman,William M. Gardner,Birhanu Geta,Keyghobad Ghadiri,Giuseppe Gorini,Alessandra C. Goulart,Yuming Guo,Gessessew Bugssa Hailu,Arvin Haj-Mirzaian,Arya Haj-Mirzaian,Samer Hamidi,Hamid Yimam Hassen,Chi Linh Hoang,Mihaela Hostiuc,Zakir Hussain,Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani,Spencer L. James,Ravi Prakash Jha,Jost B. Jonas,André Karch,Amir Kasaeian,Tesfaye Dessale Kassa,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Adane Teshome Kefale,Yousef Khader,Ejaz Ahmad Khan,Nuruzzaman Khan,Young-Ho Khang,Abdullah T Khoja,Ruth W Kimokoti,Adnan Kisa,Sezer Kisa,Niranjan Kissoon,Sonali Kochhar,Soewarta Kosen,Ai Koyanagi,Barthelemy Kuate Defo,G Anil Kumar,Dharmesh Kumar Lal,Cheru Tesema Leshargie,Shanshan Li,Rakesh Lodha,Erlyn Rachelle King Macarayan,Marek Majdan,Abdullah Al Mamun,Helena Manguerra,Addisu Melese,Ziad A. Memish,Desalegn Tadese Mengistu,Tuomo J. Meretoja,Tomislav Mestrovic,Bartosz Miazgowski,Erkin M. Mirrakhimov,Babak Moazen,Karzan Abdulmuhsin Mohammad,Shafiu Mohammed,Lorenzo Monasta,Catrin E. Moore,Jonathan F. Mosser,Seyyed Meysam Mousavi,Srinivas Murthy,Ghulam Mustafa,Javad Nazari,Cuong Tat Nguyen,Long Hoang Nguyen,Muhammad Imran Nisar,Molly R Nixon,Felix Akpojene Ogbo,Anselm Okoro,Andrew T Olagunju,Tinuke O Olagunju,Mahesh P A,Smita Pakhale,Maarten J. Postma,Mostafa Qorbani,Reginald Quansah,Alireza Rafiei,Fakher Rahim,Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar,Rajesh Kumar Rai,Mohammad Sadegh Rezai,Aziz Rezapour,Maria Jesus Rios-Blancas,Luca Ronfani,Katherine Rosettie,Dietrich Rothenbacher,Saeed Safari,Zikria Saleem,Evanson Z. Sambala,Abdallah M. Samy,Milena M Santric Milicevic,Benn Sartorius,Monika Sawhney,Seyedmojtaba Seyedmousavi,Masood Ali Shaikh,Aziz Sheikh,Mika Shigematsu,David L. Smith,Joan B. Soriano,Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy,Jeffrey D. Stanaway,Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan,Teklay G E Teklu,Mohamad-Hani Temsah,Belay Tessema,Bach Xuan Tran,Khanh Bao Tran,Irfan Ullah,Rachel L Updike,Tommi Vasankari,Yousef Veisani,Fiseha Wadilo Wada,Yasir Waheed,Marcia R. Weaver,Kirsten E. Wiens,Charles Shey Wiysonge,Ebrahim M Yimer,Naohiro Yonemoto,Zoubida Zaidi,Heather J. Zar,Afshin Zarghi,Stephen S Lim,Theo Vos,Ali H. Mokdad,Christopher J L Murray,Hmwe H Kyu,Simon I. Hay,Robert Reiner +183 more
TL;DR: Improvements in sociodemographic indicators might explain some of these trends, but changes in exposure to risk factors—particularly unsafe sanitation, childhood growth failure, and low use of oral rehydration solution—appear to be related to the relative and absolute rates of decline in diarrhoea mortality.