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Eric Tenkorang
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Read how they describe their research on their Memorial University of Newfoundland profile.
Latest papers
Interventions impacting the accessibility of sexual reproductive health services for head porters in sub-Saharan Africa- A scoping review protocol.
PloS one · 2023
The effects of individual and community-level factors on maternal health outcomes in Ghana.
PloS one · 2018
Latest funding
- $49,711
Access to and usage of digital financial services (mobile money) and Ghanaian women's social and economic empowerment
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $124,943
Unveiling culturally responsive sexual reproductive health care services among female newcomers to Canada: A participatory community-based multi-method study in three Canadian provinces
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $43,788
Food insecurity and intimate partner violence among women living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana: A neglected problem in sub-Saharan Africa?
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
2 publications.
Interventions impacting the accessibility of sexual reproductive health services for head porters in sub-Saharan Africa- A scoping review protocol.
Jarvis K, Richter S, Adjorlolo S, Swab M, Tenkorang E, Mao Y, Chubb LA, Adjei CA, Midodzi W, Manu A, Torpey K, Spence C, Petrucka P
The effects of individual and community-level factors on maternal health outcomes in Ghana.
Adu J, Tenkorang E, Banchani E, Allison J, Mulay S
Access to and usage of digital financial services (mobile money) and Ghanaian women's social and economic empowerment
Principal investigators: Tenkorang, Eric
Keywords: Digital Financial Inclusion; Women's Empowerment; Sub-Saharan Africa; Ghana; Women; Sustainable Development
Unveiling culturally responsive sexual reproductive health care services among female newcomers to Canada: A participatory community-based multi-method study in three Canadian provinces
Principal investigators: Jarvis, Kimberly; Pike, Stephen; Spence, Cara J; Vallianatos, Helen
Keywords: Canadian Newcomers; Community Based Research; Comparative Analysis; Health Equity; Health Policy; Population Health; Sex And Gender; Sexual Reproductive Health; Structural Determinants Of Health
Food insecurity and intimate partner violence among women living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana: A neglected problem in sub-Saharan Africa?
Principal investigators: Tenkorang, Eric Y.
Keywords: food insecurity; intimate partner violence; HIV; women; Ghana
Unveiling the Silence: Developing and Evaluating a Feasibility Study to Improve Access and Utilization to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for Kayayei (Head Porters) in Ghanaian Markets
Principal investigators: Richter, Magdalena S; Adjorlolo, Samuel; Jarvis, Kimberly
Keywords: Feasibility Study; Head Porters; Sexual Reproductive Health Services; West Africa; Women'S Health
Food insecurity and intimate partner violence among women living with HIV/AIDS in Ghana: A neglected problem in sub-Saharan Africa?
Principal investigators: Tenkorang, Eric Y.
Keywords: food insecurity; intimate partner violence; HIV; women; Ghana
Creating Synergy in Women's Maternal and Reproductive Health: Building Global Research Capacity to Eradicate Obstetric Fistula.
Principal investigators: Jarvis, Kimberly; Chubb, Laura A; Richter, Magdalena S
Keywords: Global Health
Examining the help-seeking behaviors of female victims of intimate partner violence in Ghana
Principal investigators: Tenkorang, Eric Y.
Keywords: Ghana; help-seeking behaviors; intimate partner violence; gender; formal services; informal services; culture; Sub-Saharan Africa
Martial violence against women in Ghana: causes and implications
Principal investigators: Tenkorang, Eric Y.
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Kimberly Jarvis and Solina Richter: 4 shared papers
- Pammla Petrucka and Solina Richter: 4 shared papers
- Kimberly Jarvis and Pammla Petrucka: 2 shared papers
- Kimberly Jarvis and Eric Tenkorang: 1 shared paper
- Shree Mulay and Eric Tenkorang: 1 shared paper
- Pammla Petrucka and Eric Tenkorang: 1 shared paper
- Eric Tenkorang and Solina Richter: 1 shared paper
- Department of Sociology
- Nursing
- Geography and Planning
- Ethnography
- Other
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