Background: Non-linear models, unequal (random) estimation uncertainty, repeated observations, and temporal autocorrelation are not adequately addressed in conventional liver-burden studies, which typically use percentage changes or linear annual trends. The purpose of this study...
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Research Article10.9734/irjgh/2026/v9i1161
Background: Universal health is advancing; however, information regarding the distribution of regional expansion in reproductive, maternal, and newborn health services across population groups remains limited. Aims: This study compared the levels of various coverage indicators at...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpcb/2026/v9i1225
Background: Early antenatal care is an important entry point for maternal health services; however, improvements in coverage may not be equally distributed across population groups and countries. This study examined temporal patterns, socioeconomic disparities and cross-country h...
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Research Article10.9734/ijrrgy/2026/v9i1176
Background: Malaria mortality studies in Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa have commonly relied on traditional regression approaches or generalised additive models, which may not fully represent delayed transmission effects, nonlinear exposure-response patterns, or uncertainty in mort...
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Research Article10.9734/jamps/2026/v28i7876
Background: Previous prostate cancer research has often been conducted in clinical or laboratory settings and has relied on traditional survival models that focus on a single disease endpoint. Such approaches do not fully account for intermediate disease states, transition risks,...
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Research Article10.9734/irjo/2026/v9i2218
Background and Objectives: Despite significant strides being made in HIV prevention and treatment, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV infection globally. Many of the current studies on HIV prevalence globally have focused on...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2026/v15i2201
Background: HIV infection amongst males aged 15-24 is an important health issue that is of global concern and has significant differences across regions. Some of the existing literature is typically based on linear or pooled models that do not adequately account for bounded and h...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2026/v15i1199
Background: Diabetes is spreading fast in West Africa, but the available evidence has been limited due to the lack of proper treatment of outliers, nonlinear dynamics, and uncertainty in epidemiological estimates. Purpose: To present a sound, uncertainty-conscious, multilevel stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrnh/2026/v9i1353
Cholesterol is a key risk factor that can be altered and has become a primary factor in cardiovascular disease. Still, trend analyses at the global level often use aggregated estimates as error-free, which may exaggerate accuracy. The objective of the study was to measure long-te...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2026/v15i2532
Hypertension is a major predictable contributor to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in Africa, but the long-term trend analysis frequently uses descriptive or Gaussian-based procedures, ignoring the limited and autocorrelated character of proportionate data. The study aimed...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmpcp/2026/v9i1403
Malaria is a public health issue that has continued to be a significant challenge in Ghana despite decades of continuous control interventions. This research aimed to measure the nonlinear dynamics of age-standardised malaria mortality in Ghana over the long run and to overcome t...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2026/v47i21723
Francis Ayiah-Mensah, Emmanuel Ayitey, Vivian Nimoh, Mohammed Frempong & Frank Twenefour·Asian Oncology Research Journal·2026
Background: Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in women in Ghana; prognostic studies are still dominated by single endpoint Kaplan-Meier and Cox models, which do not consider recurrence, progression, and competing mortality. The study aimed to come up with a...
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Research Article10.9734/aorj/2026/v9i1128
The early postnatal care in the first 48 hours of childbirth is crucial in preventing maternal morbidity and death. However, worldwide evidence remains dominated by mean-based and binary analyses that do not account for instability in service coverage. This research aims to measu...
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Research Article10.9734/ijrrgy/2026/v9i1156
Under-five survival remains a core indicator of population health and health system performance in Ghana; much of the existing evidence relies on linear or strictly parametric models that poorly capture complex risk dynamics. This study sought to provide a statistically robust as...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2026/v32i23949
Francis Ayiah-Mensah, Cynthia Ama Mensah, Francis Eyiah-Bediako, Emmanuel Asare Ayim & Anthony Joe Turkson·Advances in Research·2026
Early childbearing remains a persistent global public health challenge, yet existing evidence is largely derived from cross-sectional or pooled analyses that ignore hierarchical data structures and within-country dependence. The study aims to quantify the temporal dynamics and so...
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Research Article10.9734/air/2026/v27i11575
Biologically and clinically, prostate cancer is significantly heterogeneous; still, much of the existing empirical research on prognosis proceeds within the two-stage paradigm, which conceptualises prostate-specific antigen (PSA) as a static baseline variable and neglects its dyn...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2026/v16i1336
The study develops a hybrid composite analysis model that combines imputation and machine learning techniques to predict 527 country-years of national antenatal care coverage with at least four visits (ANC4). The structured missingness of the wealth quintile indicators was addres...
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Research Article10.9734/arjgo/2026/v9i1310
Childbearing at a young age remains a pressing concern for population health and broader development. Unfortunately, there has been extensive literature based on statistical models that have not properly accounted for the bounded variable and hierarchical structure of the data co...
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Research Article10.9734/jocamr/2025/v26i12731
The study evaluated the progress of antenatal care worldwide using records from the UNICEF Maternal Health Dataset and determined the correlation between prosperity and improvements in antenatal care coverage. Mean coverage of antenatal care rose by 61.9 in 2013 to 71.6 in 2023,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpcb/2025/v8i1187
Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) Risk Factor Collaboration supplied population-representative data detailing hypertension management in Africa for individuals aged 30 to 79 years from 1990-2019. Ten cascade indicators were analysed via both age-standardized and crude metrics. Beta r...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2025/v23i121332