Alfred Edwin Yawson

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

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Alfred Edwin Yawson is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfred Edwin Yawson has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in General Health Professions, 30 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health and 23 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Alfred Edwin Yawson's work include Global Maternal and Child Health (27 papers), Global Health Care Issues (22 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (20 papers). Alfred Edwin Yawson is often cited by papers focused on Global Maternal and Child Health (27 papers), Global Health Care Issues (22 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (20 papers). Alfred Edwin Yawson collaborates with scholars based in Ghana, Switzerland and United States. Alfred Edwin Yawson's co-authors include Paul Kowal, Richard Biritwum, Somnath Chatterji, Fan Wu, Nirmala Naidoo, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Tamara Maximova, Karl Peltzer, George Mensah and Nadia Minicuci and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Affective Disorders.

In The Last Decade

Alfred Edwin Yawson

102 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The impact of multimorbidity on adult physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: what does the study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) reveal?

2015 333 citations Arokiasamy Perianayagam, Richard Biritwum et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alfred Edwin Yawson Ghana	25	760	536	478	474	353	107	2.4k
Richard Biritwum Ghana	27	479 0.6×	472 0.9×	374 0.8×	300 0.6×	356 1.0×	58	2.3k
Shiva Raj Mishra Nepal	33	760 1.0×	486 0.9×	289 0.6×	550 1.2×	617 1.7×	155	3.3k
Melanie Bertram Switzerland	31	856 1.1×	720 1.3×	273 0.6×	462 1.0×	765 2.2×	78	3.8k
Anne Cockcroft Mexico	30	992 1.3×	466 0.9×	508 1.1×	564 1.2×	541 1.5×	184	3.6k
John Grove United States	10	503 0.7×	386 0.7×	230 0.5×	293 0.6×	473 1.3×	15	2.2k
Nega Assefa Ethiopia	29	838 1.1×	470 0.9×	226 0.5×	1.1k 2.3×	470 1.3×	187	3.0k
Paulo Roberto Borges de Souza Júnior Brazil	39	2.1k 2.7×	733 1.4×	818 1.7×	680 1.4×	883 2.5×	165	4.8k
Charbel El Bcheraoui United States	28	584 0.8×	313 0.6×	205 0.4×	187 0.4×	646 1.8×	77	2.6k
Vânia Naomi Hirakata Brazil	22	1.2k 1.5×	696 1.3×	515 1.1×	647 1.4×	991 2.8×	100	4.6k
Jennifer Stewart Williams Australia	25	515 0.7×	209 0.4×	379 0.8×	260 0.5×	232 0.7×	43	1.6k

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Doku, Alfred, et al.. (2024). The Ghana heart initiative – a health system strengthening approach as index intervention model to solving Ghana’s cardiovascular disease burden. Frontiers in Public Health. 12. 1330708–1330708. 2 indexed citations

Goka, Bamenla Q., et al.. (2023). Cardiovascular physical examination as a screening tool for congenital heart disease in newborns at a teaching hospital in Ghana. Ghana Medical Journal. 57(2). 148–155. 1 indexed citations

Yawson, Alfred Edwin, et al.. (2022). Challenges of Health Care Delivery at a Municipal Health Facility under Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme. 2(2). 56–64. 1 indexed citations

Brouillet, Emmanuel & Alfred Edwin Yawson. (2022). Menstrual Hygiene Management and Resources for Adolescent Girls in an Urban Setting in Accra, Ghana. 8(1). 17–22.

Nuertey, Benjamín Demah, Emilia Asuquo Udofia, Benedict Calys‐Tagoe, et al.. (2022). Home-Based Remedies to Prevent COVID-19-Associated Risk of Infection, Admission, Severe Disease, and Death: A Nested Case-Control Study. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2022. 1–9. 6 indexed citations

Tetteh, John, et al.. (2021). Utilization of eye health services and diabetic retinopathy: a cross-sectional study among persons living with diabetes visiting a tertiary eye care facility in Ghana. BMC Health Services Research. 21(1). 590–590. 5 indexed citations

Tetteh, John, et al.. (2021). Sex differences and factors associated with disability among Ghana’s workforce: a nationally stratified cross-sectional study. BMJ Open. 11(3). e044246–e044246. 4 indexed citations

Noora, Charles Lwanga, et al.. (2020). Stillbirths in Primary Level Hospitals in Sunyani, Ghana: A Retrospective Data Analysis. 2(1). 113–120. 2 indexed citations

Aheto, Justice Moses K., Emilia Asuquo Udofia, George Mensah, et al.. (2020). Prevalence, socio-demographic and environmental determinants of asthma in 4621 Ghanaian adults: Evidence from Wave 2 of the World Health Organization’s study on global AGEing and adult health. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0243642–e0243642. 7 indexed citations

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Guure, Chris, et al.. (2019). Factors influencing unmet need for family planning among Ghanaian married/union women: a multinomial mixed effects logistic regression modelling approach. Archives of Public Health. 77(1). 11–11. 36 indexed citations

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Yawson, Alfred Edwin, et al.. (2019). Towards the Universal Health Coverage in Ghana: An exploratory, cross-sectional study on the National Health Insurance Scheme. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Abuosi, Aaron Asibi, et al.. (2018). Educational status and beliefs regarding non-communicable diseases among children in Ghana. BMC Public Health. 18(1). 313–313. 3 indexed citations

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Yawson, Alfred Edwin, et al.. (2016). Bottleneck analysis approach to accelerate newborn care services in two regions in Ghana: implications for national newborn care. Public Health. 141. 245–254. 9 indexed citations

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Peltzer, Karl, Nancy Phaswana‐Mafuya, Arokiasamy Perianayagam, et al.. (2015). Prevalence, circumstances and consequences of non-fatal road traffic injuries and other bodily injuries among older people in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 13(2). 59–77. 6 indexed citations

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Yawson, Alfred Edwin, George Bonsu, Margaret Lartey, et al.. (2014). Sex differences in perceived risk and testing experience of HIV in an urban fishing setting in Ghana. International Journal for Equity in Health. 13(1). 109–109. 10 indexed citations

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Yawson, Alfred Edwin, et al.. (2014). Utilization of HIV testing and counseling in Ghana: implications for universal coverage.. PubMed. 18(1). 144–54. 11 indexed citations

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Munyakazi, L., et al.. (2013). Socio-economic Inequalities and Healthcare Utilization in Ghana. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Yawson, Alfred Edwin, Benedict Calys‐Tagoe, Sandra Hewlett, et al.. (2013). Tobacco use in older adults in Ghana: sociodemographic characteristics, health risks and subjective wellbeing. BMC Public Health. 13(1). 979–979. 36 indexed citations

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Yawson, Alfred Edwin, et al.. (2012). Effects of consumer and provider moral hazard at a municipal hospital out-patient department on Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme.. PubMed. 46(4). 200–10. 9 indexed citations

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Yawson, Alfred Edwin, et al.. (2012). Patterns of health service utilization at a medical school clinic in Ghana.. PubMed. 46(3). 128–35. 4 indexed citations

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