Chronic disease; epidemiological transitions; social science; sub-Saharan Africa

Vaughan, Megan, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and Mika, Marissa (eds.) (2021) Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and Historical Perspectives. UCL Press, London. ISBN 978-1787357068

Colorectal cancer, cancer screening, diabetes mellitus, self-management, self-care, health behaviours, multiple health behaviour change

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Sabatino, Susan and White, Mary C (2013) Exploring opportunities for colorectal cancer screening and prevention in the context of diabetes self-management: an analysis of the 2010 National Health Interview Survey. Translational Behavioral Medicine, 3 (1). pp. 72-81. ISSN 1869-6716 (Print), 1613-9860 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-012-0187-7)

Knowledge Exchange; chronic illness; Gait; cardio vascular; IBD; diabetes; swallowing difficulties; user involvement

Markowski, Marianne ORCID: 0000-0003-4652-3168 , Rivoal, Dominique, Dibley, Lesley ORCID: 0000-0001-7964-7672 , Patchay, Sandhiran ORCID: 0000-0002-7013-8940 , Ojo, Omorogieva ORCID: 0000-0003-0071-3652 , Hansjee, Dharinee and Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 (2023) Living well with chronic illness: a 10-minute summary video of the Knowledge Exchange event. [Video]

Relative deprivation, Income inequality, Yitzhaki Index

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and Kawachi, Ichiro (2012) Use of the Yitzhaki Index as a test of relative deprivation for health outcomes: A review of recent literature. Social Science & Medicine, 75 (1). pp. 129-137. ISSN 0277-9536 (Print), 0277-9536 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.004)

Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Accra; epidemiology; non-communicable diseases; urban poor communities

Lule, Swaib Abubaker, Boatemaa Kushitor, Sandra, Grijalva-Eternod, Carlos S., Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Sanuade, Olutobi Adekunle, Kushitor, Mawuli Komla, Okoibhole, Lydia, Awuah, Raphael, Baatiema, Leonard, Kretchy, Irene Akwo, Arhinful, Daniel, de-Graft Aikins, Ama, Koram, Kwadwo, Fottrell, Edward and CARE Diabetes Team, the (2024) The contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) diabetes project: study design for a quantitative survey of diabetes prevalence and non-communicable disease risk in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana. Global Health Action, 17:2297513. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1654-9716 (Print), 1654-9880 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2023.2297513)

cardiac epidemiology, cardiology, epidemiology, public health, social medicine

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and Cois, Annibale (2022) Explaining population trends in cardiovascular risk: protocol for a comparative analysis of health transitions in South Africa and England using nationally representative survey data. BMJ Open, 12 (3):e061034. ISSN 2044-6055 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061034)

cardiovascular disease, gini coefficient, health behaviour, income inequality, longitudinal, multilevel, risk factor

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Kawachi, Ichiro, Subramanian, S. V. and Avendano, Mauricio (2018) Income inequality and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a highly unequal country: a fixed-effects analysis from South Africa. International Journal for Equity in Health, 17:31. ISSN 1475-9276 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0741-0)

cause of death, verbal autopsy, non-communicable disease, life expectancy

Coates, Matthew M. ORCID: 0000-0002-8474-4992 , Kamanda, Mamusu, Kintu, Alexander, Arikpo, Iwara ORCID: 0000-0001-8487-6461 , Chauque, Alberto, Mengesha, Melkamu Merid ORCID: 0000-0003-4312-0136 , Price, Alison J. ORCID: 0000-0002-3891-3337 , Sifuna, Peter, Wamukoya, Marylene ORCID: 0000-0002-2900-9178 , Sacoor, Charfudin N., Ogwang, Sheila, Assefa, Nega ORCID: 0000-0003-0341-2329 , Crampin, Amelia C. ORCID: 0000-0002-1513-4330 , Macete, Eusebio V., Kyobutungi, Catherine ORCID: 0000-0002-5344-5631 , Meremikwu, Martin M., Otieno, Walter, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Marx, Andrew, Byass, Peter ORCID: 0000-0001-5474-4361 , Sankoh, Osman ORCID: 0000-0003-4405-9808 and Bukhman, Gene ORCID: 0000-0003-4500-7903 (2019) A comparison of all-cause and cause-specific mortality by household socioeconomic status across seven INDEPTH network health and demographic surveillance systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Global Health Action, 12 (1):1608013. ISSN 1654-9716 (Print), 1654-9880 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1608013)

chronic disease; qualitative research; lived experience; migrant health

de-Graft Aikins, Ama, Sanuade, Olutobi Adekunle, Baatiema, Leonard, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Addo, Juliet and Agyemang, Charles (2023) How chronic conditions are understood, experienced and managed within African communities in Europe, North America and Australia: a synthesis of qualitative studies. PLoS ONE, 18 (2):e0277325. pp. 1-32. ISSN 1932-6203 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277325)

chronic illness; qualitative methods; family; communication; care

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , de-Graft Aikins, Ama and Vaughan, Megan (2022) 'If you sell your sickness, you will get its medicine': care and intrafamilial communication for chronic diseases in southern Ghana. Scientific African, 18:e01400. ISSN 2468-2276 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01400)

chronic non-communicable disease, social capital, older adults

Christian, Aaron K. ORCID: 0000-0002-6025-9765 , Sanuade, Olutobi Adekunle, Okyere, Michael Adu and Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 (2020) Social capital is associated with improved subjective well-being of older adults with chronic non-communicable disease in six low- and middle-income countries. Globalization and Health, 16:2. ISSN 1744-8603 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-019-0538-y)

cost of Illness; developing countries; disease; epidemiology; global health; healthcare disparities; humans; income; poverty; prevalence; wounds and injuries

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Kintu, Alex, Saxena, Akshar, Anyona, Mamka, Bhatia, Amiya, Lopez, Gilberto, Frank, Sarah, Syed, Azhra, McDonell, Claire, Gupta, Neil, Marx, Andrew, Coates, Matthew and Bukhman, Gene (2016) PROSPERO 2016 CRD42016052177. Systematic review of the burden of non-communicable diseases and injuries among the world's poorest billion people. National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - The International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO), Leeds, UK.

developing country; diabetes; engagement; non-communicable diseases; sub-Saharan Africa

Kretchy, Irene, Okoibhole, Lydia, Sanuade, Olutobi, Jennings, Hannah, Strachan, Daniel, Blandford, Ann, Agyei, Francis, Asante, Paapa, Todowode, Olamide, Kushitor, Mawuli, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Arhinful, Daniel, Baatiema, Leonard, Dankyi, Ernestina, Grijalva-Eternod, Carlos, Fottrell, Edward and de-Graft Aikins, Ama (2022) Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana. Global Health Action, 15 (1):2122304. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1654-9716 (Print), 1654-9880 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2022.2122304)

epidemiology; chronic disease; infectious disease; sub-Saharan Africa

Vaughan, Megan and Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 (2021) Introduction. In: Vaughan, Megan, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and Mika, Marissa, (eds.) Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: Social and historical perspectives. UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 1-38. ISBN 978-1787357068; 978-1787357051; 978-1787357044; 978-1787357075; 978-1787357082 (doi:https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357044)

income inequality, depression, South Africa, longitudinal

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Avendano, Mauricio, Subramanian, S V and Kawachi, Ichiro (2016) Income inequality and depressive symptoms in South Africa: a longitudinal analysis of the National Income Dynamics study. Health & Place, 42. pp. 37-46. ISSN 1353-8292 (Print), 1353-8292 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.08.013)

income inequality, depression, South Africa, longitudinal,

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Avendano, Mauricio, Subramanian, S V and Kawachi, Ichiro (2016) Income inequality and depressive symptoms in South Africa: a longitudinal analysis of the national income dynamics study. Health and Place, 42. pp. 37-46. ISSN 1353-8292 (Print), 1353-8292 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.08.013)

inequality; social determinants of health; global health

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and Kawachi, Ichiro (2022) Global inequalities: the impact on health. In: La Placa, Vincent and Morgan, Julia ORCID: 0000-0001-6218-7593 , (eds.) Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health. Health & Development . Routledge, London. ISBN 978-1003128373 (doi:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003128373-5)

non-communicable diseases, poverty

Bukhman, Gene, Mocumbi, Ana O, Atun, Rifat, Becker, Anne E, Bhutta, Zulfiqar, Binagwaho, Agnes, Clinton, Chelsea, Coates, Matthew M, Dain, Katie, Ezzati, Majid, Gottlieb, Gary, Gupta, Indrani, Gupta, Neil, Hyder, Adnan A, Jain, Yogesh, Kruk, Margaret E, Makani, Julie, Marx, Andrew, Miranda, J Jaime, Norheim, Ole F, Nugent, Rachel, Roy, Nobhojit, Stefan, Cristina, Wallis, Lee, Mayosi, Bongani, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Adler, Alma, Amegashie, Fred, Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary Kigasia, Arwal, Said Habib, Bassoff, Nicole, Beste, Jason A., Boudreaux, Chantelle, Byass, Peter, Cadet, Jean Roland, Dagnaw, Wubaye Walelgne, Eagan, Arielle Wilder, Feigl, Andrea, Gathecha, Gladwell, Haakenstad, Annie, Haileamlak, Abraham Mitike, Johansson, Kjell Arne, Kamanda, Mamusu, Karmacharya, Biraj, Kasomekera, Noel, Kintu, Alex, Koirala, Bhagawan, Kwan, Gene F., Larco, Nancy Charles, Maongezi, Sarah, Masiye, Jones, Mayige, Mary, McLaughlin, Amy, Memirie, Solomon Tessema, Muquingue, Humberto Nelson, Mwangi, Kibachio Joseph Muiruri, Ndayisaba, Gilles Francois, Noble, Christopher A., Noormal, Bashir, Olsen, Maia, Park, Paul, Aguilar, Gisela Robles, Sankoh, Osman A., Saxena, Akshar, Schwartz, Leah N., Schwarz, Dan K., Shaffer, Jonathan D., Sumner, Andrew P., Doe, Zoe Taylor, Upreti, Senendra Raj, Verguet, Stéphane, Watkins, David and Wroe, Emily B. (2020) The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion. The Lancet, 396 (10256). pp. 991-1044. ISSN 0140-6736 (Print), 1474-547X (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31907-3)

non-communicable diseases, social determinants of health, epidemiology, health transitions

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and Vaughan, Megan (2019) Reframing NCDs? An analysis of current debates. Global Health Action, 12 (1):1641043. ISSN 1654-9716 (Print), 1654-9880 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2019.1641043)

nutrition status, trade, agriculture, policy, food prices, nominal rate of assistance, liberalization

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Vollmer, Sebastian, Avendano, Mauricio and Harttgen, Kenneth (2019) Agricultural trade policies and child nutrition in low- and middle-income countries: a cross-national analysis. Globalization and Health, 15:21. ISSN 1744-8603 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-019-0463-0)

social capital, mental health, depression

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 , Kawachi, Ichiro, Subramanian, S. V. and Avendano, Mauricio (2017) High social trust associated with increased depressive symptoms in a longitudinal South African sample. Social Science & Medicine, 197. pp. 127-135. ISSN 0277-9536 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.003)

stroke, care, public engagement, roundtable, collaboration

Sanuade, Olutobi, Baatiema, Leonard, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and de-Graft Aikins, Ama (2021) Improving stroke care in Ghana: a roundtable discussion with communities, healthcare providers, policymakers and civil society organisations. Ghana Medical Journal, 55 (2). pp. 147-151. ISSN 0016-9560 (doi:https://doi.org/10.4314/gmj.v55i2.8)

urban agriculture; irrigation; wastewater; farmer; health

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 (2008) Farmers’ perceptions of benefits and risks from wastewater irrigation in Accra, Ghana. Urban Agriculture Magazine, 20. pp. 27-28. ISSN 1571-6244

validity; depression; angina; chronic disease; measurement

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 (2021) Validity of measures for chronic disease in African settings. In: Vaughan, Megan, Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui ORCID: 0000-0002-8919-6518 and Mika, Marisa, (eds.) Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: social and historical perspectives. UCL Press, London, pp. 181-211. ISBN 978-1787357068; 978-1787357051; 978-1787357044; 978-1787357075; 978-1787357082 (doi:https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787357044)