Dr. Augustine Adomah-Afari (Senior Lecturer)

  Dr. Augustine Adomah-Afari 

  (Senior Lecturer)

 

 

 

 

Email: augustineafari@yahoo.co.uk; afari@ug.edu.gh

Cell phone:0265435294

 

Academic qualification 

PhD, MA (UK), MBA, BSc. Admin. (Gh.).

 

Short Bios /CV

Dr. Augustine Adomah-Afari, is currently, a senior lecturer in Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana. He received both MA and PhD from the Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University – UK. He had also graduated from the University of Ghana Business School with both BSc. (Admin) and MBA. He worked as a Health Services Administrator (District and Regional Hospitals-Ghana); Senior Health Services Administrator (HASS/GHS); Consultant (PHRplus-Ghana); and Administrator (Manor & Castle Development Trust Ltd.-UK). His research interests include health system reforms; health financing, policy, planning and management; relationship marketing; human resources management; and community-based organisations.

 

Research Interests

Health system reforms; Health financing, policy, planning and management; Relationship marketing; Human resources management; Quality of care; and Community-based organisations.

 

Honorary Award

 2020 Honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press 2020. London Journal of Research in Management and Business (LJRMB).  Membership ID#FT70516. This is in recognition of contribution of an article: Kolekang, F., Awuah-Werekoh, K., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2019). ‘Influence of job related factors on encouraging savings for health care towards old age among nurses in a municipality, Ghana. International Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences, 4(1),14-30. DOI: 10.18488/journal.136.2019.41.14.30.   

 

Literary Award

2019                            Emerald Publishing                                         Literati Award

This is in recognition of contribution of an article: Adomah-Afari, A. & Maloreh-Nyamekye, T. (2018). Relationship marketing strategy: policy formulation and curricula development to enhance quality of care in the health sector of Ghana’ in International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 31 (6), 631-645. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-05-2017-0086.  

 

Research Projects Completed (within past 5 years):

An exploratory study of existing relationship marketing orientation of providers and patients of public and private sector specialist hospitals in Ghana.  Funded under 8th Call by the Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID), University of Ghana. Project Ref. Number: #URF/8/Sf-018/2014/2015.

 

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

Klobodu, C., Brandy-Joe, M., Agyabeng, K., Akweongo, P., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2020).  Maternal birth preparedness and complication readiness in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: a cross-sectional study of two urban health facilities.  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20:566.  DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03263-6.       

 

Cadri, A., Bonyo, A.A.N., Gyan, A.R., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2020).  The effect of social health issues on postpartum depression: Analysis from a community sample in Ghana.  Central African Journal of Public Health, 6 (2), 88-94. DOI: http://doi:10.11648/j.cajph.20200602.16.      

 

Baffoe-Bonnie, T., Ntow, S.K., Awuah-Werekoh, K., Adomah-Afari, A. (2019).  Influence of health system factors on access to a quality health care among prisoners - Perspectives of health providers of a prison infirmary, Ghana. International Journal of Prisoner Health, 15 (4), 349-365. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1108/IJPH-02-2019-0014.    

 

Adomah-Afari, A. & Maloreh-Nyamekye, T. (2019). Enhancing patient satisfaction - relationship marketing strategies of two specialist hospitals in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences, 4 (2), 213-231. DOI: https:doi.org/10.18488/journal.136.2019.42.213.231. 

 

Adomah-Afari, A., Mantey, D.D., & Awuah-Werekoh, K. (2019). Factors influencing a long-term relationship between healthcare providers and patients – perspectives of patients at a public regional hospital, Ghana. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, 13 (3), 364-386l. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPHM-05-2017-0021.  

 

Kolekang, F., Awuah-Werekoh, K., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2019).  Influence of job related factors on encouraging savings for health care towards old age among nurses in a municipality, Ghana. International Journal of Social and Administrative Sciences, 4(1),14-30. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18488/journal.136.2019.41.14.30.    

 

 

Tagoe, E. T., Agbadi, P., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2019). Factors Associated with Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes under the Directly Observed Therapy at the La General Hospital, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Journal of Human Environment and Health Promotion, 4(3), 99-105.  DOI: http://doi10.29252/jhehp.4.3.1.

 

Babanawo, F., Ibrahim, A., Bahar, O.S., Adomah-Afari, A., & Maya, E. (2018).  Assessment of knowledge and usage of HIV post exposure prophylaxis among healthcare workers in a regional hospital in Ghana.  Journal of Global Health Reports, 2: e2018028.  DOI: https://doi: 10.29392/joghr.2.e201802.    

 

Beson, P., Appiah, R., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2018).  Modern contraceptive use among reproductive-aged women in Ghana: prevalence, predictors, and policy implications.  BMC Women's Health, 18:157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0649-2.

 

Adomah-Afari, A., & Chandler, J.A. (2018).  The role of government and community in the scaling up and sustainability of mutual health organisations: An exploratory study in Ghana. Journal of Social Science & Medicine, 207 (207), 25-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.04.044.

 

Adomah-Afari, A., & Maloreh-Nyamekye, T. (2018). Relationship marketing strategy: policy formulation and curricula development to enhance quality of care in the health sector of Ghana. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 31 (6), 631-645. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-05-2017-0086.   

 

Adomah-Afari, A. (2017).  Mutual health organisations as facilitators and / or barriers towards the successful implementation of national health insurance scheme - An exploratory study in Ghana. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 88 (3), 369-402. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apce.12158.  

 

Quist, M.A., & Adomah-Afari, A.  (2017). ‘When I am with my husband, I do not feel mosquito bite’ – Insecticide-Treated Net use among pregnant women, Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 30 (2), 148-159.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-03-2016-0032.  

 

Kokui, E.P., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2016).  Health providers’ perception of quality of care for neonates in health facilities in a municipality in southern Ghana.  International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 29 (8), 907-920.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-04-2016-0055.

 

Adomah-Afari, A. (2015). Challenges to performance and sustaining mutual health organisations / health institutions: An exploratory study in Ghana. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 28 (7), 726-745.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-02-2015-0018.    

 

Adomah-Afari, A. (2015).  The contribution of community leadership upon the performance of mutual health organisations in Ghana. Journal of Health Organisation and Management, 29 (7), 822-839. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-11-2013-0260.

 

 

 

Journal Publications (In Press)

Adomah-Afari, A., Ntow, S.K., Awuah-Werekoh, K., & Baffoe-Bonnie, T. (Accepted for publication in November, 2021 - In press).  Male prisoners’ perspectives of factors influencing access to quality healthcare provision at a prison infirmary, Ghana.  The Prison Journal.

 

Acquah, C., Gadeka, D.D., Awuah-Werekoh, K., & Adomah-Afari, A. (Accepted - In press).  Influence of institutional factors on job satisfaction among nurses at a Regional Hospital, Ghana.   Indraprastha Journal of Management

 

Book(s)

Mary Quist, & Augustine Adomah-Afari (2017).  "When I am with my husband, I do not feel mosquito bite”.  Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishers.  ISBN: 978-6202060547.  Available at: https://www.amazon.com/When-husband-feel-mosquito-ite/dp/6202060549/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527269871&sr=8-1&keywords=augustine+adomah-afari.  

 

Augustine Adomah-Afari (2012). Understanding Health Care Financing and Management of Mutual Health Organisations in Developing Countries – A Case Study of Ghana.  Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishers.  ISBN: 978-3-659-18537-3.  Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Health-Care-Financing-Management/dp/365918537X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1527269677&sr=8-3&keywords=augustine+adomah-afari.

 

Augustine Adomah-Afari (2012).  Understanding Relationships Marketing of Public and Private Hospitals in Ghana.  Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishers.  ISBN: 978-3-659-28243-0.  Available at: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Relationships-Marketing-Private-Hospitals/dp/365928243X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1527269812&sr=8-2&keywords=augustine+adomah-afari.