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Baatiema Leonard

SENIOR LECTURER

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Verified email at ug.edu.gh Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health, University of Ghana Google Scholar

CollegeCOLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
School / InstituteSCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
DepartmentDEPARTMENT OF HEALTH POLICY, PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Health systems and policy analysisPrimary Health CareGovernance and Leadership in Healthcare
Publications

97

Citations

2,717

H-index

24

i10-index

43

Publication activity
Publication statistics
Average citations
28.0
Most cited paper
409
First publication year
1900
Latest publication year
2026
Last updated
13 Sep 2026, 22:32
Publications

97 matching publications

PublicationYearJournalThematic areaCitations
An ecological approach to understanding stroke experience and access to rehabilitation services in Ghana: A cross‐sectional study
L Baatiema, O Sanuade, J Kuumuori Ganle, A Sumah, L Baatiema, ...
2021 Health & Social Care in the Community 29 (5), e67-e78, 2021 Health Sciences 22
Implementation of national policies and interventions (WHO Best Buys) for non-communicable disease prevention and control in Ghana: a mixed methods analysis
L Baatiema, OA Sanuade, IA Kretchy, L Okoibhole, SB Kushitor, ...
2024 Health Res Policy Systems 22 (154), 12961-024-01242-3, 2024 Health Sciences 19
The role of health systems in the control of neglected tropical diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa
J Nonvignon, L Baatiema, FB da Costa Vroom, E Mensah, JO Gyapong
2024 Neglected Tropical Diseases-Sub-Saharan Africa, 523-548, 2024 Health Sciences 19
Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana
IA Kretchy, LO Okoibhole, OA Sanuade, H Jennings, DL Strachan, ...
2022 Global health action 15 (1), 2122304, 2022 Health Sciences 18
Changes in food quality and habits in urban Ghana: evidence from a mixed-methods study
SB Kushitor, L Okoibhole, M Vaughan, K Adjaye-Gbewonyo, IA Kretchy, ...
2025 BMC public health 25 (1), 2556, 2025 Health Sciences 17
Non-communicable diseases, psychosocial wellbeing, and quality of life in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana: analysis from a community-based cross-sectional study
K Adjaye-Gbewonyo, IA Kretchy, L Baatiema, CS Grijalva-Eternod, ...
2025 BMC public health 25 (1), 1059, 2025 Health Sciences 17
Women’s use of non-conventional herbal uterotonic in pregnancy and labour: evidence from birth attendants
J Sumankuuro, L Baatiema, J Crockett, J Young
2022 BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22 (1), 600, 2022 Health Sciences 16
Healthcare utilization in Ghana: insights from the 2017 Ghana living standard survey
DA Tuoyire, L Baatiema, D Dwomoh, S Bosomprah
2024 PloS one 19 (6), e0306032, 2024 Health Sciences 15
Perceptions of community members on contextual factors driving cardiovascular disease behavioural risk in Ghana: a qualitative study
NA Mensah, OA Sanuade, L Baatiema
2022 BMC Public Health 22 (1), 1240, 2022 Health Sciences 15
How chronic conditions are understood, experienced and managed within African communities in Europe, North America and Australia: A synthesis of qualitative studies
A de-Graft Aikins, O Sanuade, L Baatiema, K Adjaye-Gbewonyo, J Addo, ...
2023 Plos one 18 (2), e0277325, 2023 Health Sciences 13
Implementation of medicines pricing policies in sub-Saharan Africa: protocol for a systematic review
T Mirzoev, A Koduah, A Cronin de Chavez, L Baatiema, A Danso-Appiah, ...
2021 BMJ open 11 (2), e044293, 2021 Health Sciences 13
Non-communicable disease comorbidities in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa
SB Kushitor, OA Sanuade, L Baatiema, MK Kushitor, EK Afrifa-Anane, ...
2021 South African Medical Journal 111 (2), 149-158, 2021 Health Sciences 12
Stocking and over-the-counter sale of misoprostol for medical abortion in Ghana’s community pharmacies: comparison of questionnaire and mystery client survey
JK Ganle, NT Busia, L Baatiema
2020 International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 28 (3), 267-274, 2020 Health Sciences 12
Sensitive near point-of-care detection of asymptomatic and submicroscopic Plasmodium falciparum infections in African endemic countries
D Rakotomalala Robinson, I Pennisi, ML Cavuto, F Kiemde, M Chamai, ...
2025 Nature communications 16 (1), 8925, 2025 Health Sciences 10
A qualitative exploration of policy interventions to improve the health-related quality of life of people living with HIV AIDS and co-morbidities of hypertension and/or …
R Owusu, SA Bawua, EB Kwarteng, L Baatiema, J Nonvignon
2024 PLoS One 19 (10), e0311994, 2024 Health Sciences 10
Contextual awareness, response and evaluation (CARE) of diabetes in poor urban communities in Ghana: the CARE diabetes project qualitative study protocol
L Baatiema, DL Strachan, LO Okoibhole, IA Kretchy, M Kushitor, ...
2024 Global health action 17 (1), 2364498, 2024 Social Sciences 10
Comment From a Lancet Commission to the NCDI Poverty Network: reaching the poorest billion through integration science
EONPN Gene Bukhman, Ana Olga Mocumbi, Neil Gupta, Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo ...
2021 Lancet, 2021 Health Sciences 10
Improving stroke care in Ghana: a roundtable discussion with communities, healthcare providers, policymakers and civil society organisations
OA Sanuade, L Baatiemaa, K Adjaye-Gbewonyo, AG Aikins
2021 Ghana Medical Journal 55 (2), 147, 2021 Health Sciences 10
COVID-19, chronic conditions and structural poverty: A social psychological assessment of the needs of a marginalized community in Accra, Ghana
J Okai
2021 Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2021 Social Sciences 9
Towards population salt reduction to control high blood pressure in Ghana: a policy direction
E Menyanu, L Baatiema, K Charlton, M Wilson, ADG Aikins, J Russell, ...
2020 Current developments in nutrition 4 (Supplement_3), nzaa084, 2020 Social Sciences 9
Frontline health workers’ experiences of providing care for people living with non-communicable diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana: a qualitative study
L Baatiema, A de-Graft Aikins, KK Koram, SMP Kunfah, LN Allen, ...
2024 BMJ open 14 (5), e078957, 2024 Health Sciences 8
Powers, engagements and resultant influences over the design and implementation of medicine pricing policies in Ghana
A Koduah, L Baatiema, IA Kretchy, IA Agyepong, A Danso-Appiah, ...
2022 BMJ global health 7 (5), e008225, 2022 Health Sciences 8
Cardiovascular risk factors among patients with human immunodeficiency viral infection at a tertiary hospital in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
OA Sanuade, L Baatiema, AK Christian, P Puplampu
2021 The Pan African Medical Journal 38, 317, 2021 Health Sciences 7
Prevalence of diabetes and associated risk factors in Ga Mashie, Accra, Ghana–the CARE Diabetes community-based survey
CS Grijalva-Eternod, KM Sedzro, K Adjaye-Gbewonyo, SB Kushitor, ...
2024 MedRxiv, 2024.03. 15.24304379, 2024 Health Sciences 6
The Underlying gendered factors influencing access to and utilization of skilled birth attendance (Sba): a case study in Ghana
N Ambrose, B Leonard, JA Kor, M Nang, AN Sumah, P Zwanikken
2022 Adv Soc Sci Res J 9 (7), 307-27, 2022 Health Sciences 6