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Ayaga A. Bawah

PROFESSOR

Verified email at ug.edu.gh University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
School / InstituteREGIONAL INST. OF POP. STUDIES
DepartmentREGIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION STUDIES SECRETARIAT
Population healthcontraceptive use and unmet needhealth systemsmortality estimation
Publications

169

Citations

5,217

H-index

34

i10-index

76

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
30.9
Most cited paper
583
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
14 Sep 2026, 10:56
Publications

169 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
NCD Countdown 2030: pathways to achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.4
JE Bennett, V Kontis, CD Mathers, M Guillot, J Rehm, K Chalkidou, ...
2020 The Lancet 396 (10255), 918-934, 2020 Social Sciences 583
Women's fears and men's anxieties: the impact of family planning on gender relations in northern Ghana
AA Bawah, P Akweongo, R Simmons, JF Phillips
1999 Studies in family planning 30 (1), 54-66, 1999 Social Sciences 449
Profile of the Navrongo health and demographic surveillance system
AR Oduro, G Wak, D Azongo, C Debpuur, P Wontuo, F Kondayire, ...
2012 International journal of epidemiology 41 (4), 968-976, 2012 Health Sciences 288
Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration
P Kowal, K Kahn, N Ng, N Naidoo, S Abdullah, A Bawah, F Binka, ...
2010 Global health action 3 (1), 5302, 2010 Health Sciences 264
Spousal communication and family planning behavior in Navrongo: a longitudinal assessment
AA Bawah
2002 Studies in family planning 33 (2), 185-194, 2002 Social Sciences 236
The Ghana essential health interventions program: a plausibility trial of the impact of health systems strengthening on maternal & child survival
JK Awoonor-Williams, AA Bawah, FK Nyonator, R Asuru, A Oduro, ...
2013 BMC health services research 13 (Suppl 2), S3, 2013 Health Sciences 214
Socio-economic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in rural northern Ghana
EW Kanmiki, AA Bawah, I Agorinya, FS Achana, JK Awoonor-Williams, ...
2014 BMC international health and human rights 14 (1), 24, 2014 Health Sciences 187
Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: the Navrongo experiment in Ghana
JF Phillips, AA Bawah, FN Binka
2006 Bulletin of the World Health Organization 84, 949-955, 2006 Health Sciences 179
Setting international standards for verbal autopsy
F Baiden, A Bawah, S Biai, F Binka, T Boerma, P Byass, ...
2007 Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85, 570-571, 2007 Health Sciences 176
Is Ghana’s pro-poor health insurance scheme really for the poor? Evidence from Northern Ghana
J Akazili, P Welaga, A Bawah, FS Achana, A Oduro, JK Awoonor-Williams, ...
2014 BMC health services research 14 (1), 637, 2014 Health Sciences 155
Spatial and socio-demographic determinants of contraceptive use in the Upper East region of Ghana
FS Achana, AA Bawah, EF Jackson, P Welaga, T Awine, E Asuo-Mante, ...
2015 Reproductive health 12 (1), 29, 2015 Health Sciences 142
Rapid achievement of the child survival millennium development goal: evidence from the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana
FN Binka, AA Bawah, JF Phillips, A Hodgson, M Adjuik, B MacLeod
2007 Tropical medicine & international health 12 (5), 578-593, 2007 Health Sciences 108
Community-Based Health Planning and Services Plus programme in Ghana: A qualitative study with stakeholders in two Systems Learning Districts on improving the implementation of …
M Kweku, H Amu, A Awolu, M Adjuik, MA Ayanore, E Manu, EE Tarkang, ...
2020 Plos one 15 (1), e0226808, 2020 Health Sciences 88
The long‐term fertility impact of the Navrongo project in northern Ghana
JF Phillips, EF Jackson, AA Bawah, B MacLeod, P Adongo, C Baynes, ...
2012 Studies in family planning 43 (3), 175-190, 2012 Social Sciences 82
Academic promotion policies and equity in global health collaborations
B Hedt-Gauthier, CO Airhihenbuwa, AA Bawah, T Cherian, MT Connelly, ...
2018 The Lancet 392 (10158), 1607-1609, 2018 Health Sciences 81
Health inequalities among older men and women in Africa and Asia: evidence from eight Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites in the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE Study
N Ng, P Kowal, K Kahn, N Naidoo, S Abdullah, A Bawah, F Binka, ...
2010 Global Health Action 3 (1), 5420, 2010 Health Sciences 78
Socio-economic and demographic disparities in ownership and use of insecticide-treated bed nets for preventing malaria among rural reproductive-aged women in northern Ghana
EW Kanmiki, JK Awoonor-Williams, JF Phillips, SP Kachur, SF Achana, ...
2019 PloS one 14 (1), e0211365, 2019 Social Sciences 77
Catalyzing the scale‐up of community‐based primary healthcare in a rural impoverished region of northern Ghana
JK Awoonor‐Williams, JF Phillips, AA Bawah
2016 The International journal of health planning and management 31 (4), e273-e289, 2016 Social Sciences 62
The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana
AA Bawah, JF Phillips, M Adjuik, M Vaughan-Smith, B Macleod, FN Binka
2010 Scandinavian journal of public health 38 (1), 95-103, 2010 Health Sciences 59
The evolving demographic and health transition in four low-and middle-income countries: evidence from four sites in the INDEPTH network of longitudinal health and demographic …
A Bawah, B Houle, N Alam, A Razzaque, PK Streatfield, C Debpuur, ...
2016 PLoS One 11 (6), e0157281, 2016 Health Sciences 57
Out-of-pocket payment for primary healthcare in the era of national health insurance: evidence from northern Ghana
EW Kanmiki, AA Bawah, JF Phillips, JK Awoonor-Williams, SP Kachur, ...
2019 PloS one 14 (8), e0221146, 2019 Health Sciences 56
Research capacity building integrated into PHIT projects: leveraging research and research funding to build national capacity
BL Hedt-Gauthier, R Chilengi, E Jackson, C Michel, M Napua, ...
2017 BMC health services research 17 (Suppl 3), 825, 2017 Health Sciences 54
Approaches to ensuring and improving quality in the context of health system strengthening: a cross-site analysis of the five African Health Initiative Partnership programs
LR Hirschhorn, C Baynes, K Sherr, N Chintu, JK Awoonor-Williams, ...
2013 BMC health services research 13 (Suppl 2), S8, 2013 Health Sciences 52
Contraceptive use intentions and unmet need for family planning among reproductive-aged women in the Upper East Region of Ghana
AA Bawah, P Asuming, SF Achana, EW Kanmiki, JK Awoonor-Williams, ...
2019 Reproductive health 16 (1), 26, 2019 Health Sciences 48
What do you do with success? The science of scaling up a health systems strengthening intervention in Ghana
JF Phillips, JK Awoonor-Williams, AA Bawah, BA Nimako, NS Kanlisi, ...
2018 BMC health services research 18 (1), 484, 2018 Health Sciences 48