Dr. Augustine Adomah-Afari
Senior Lecturer
About
Education:
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Working Experience |
2012 – Date University of Ghana - Senior Lecturer
2020-Date Ghana Institute of Management and Pub Admin (GIMPA) - Part-time Lecturer
2021-Date Metropolitan Research Education Bureau (MREB) - Part-time Lecturer
2002 – 2008 Manor & Castle Development Trust - Administrator
2001 - 2002 PHR plus - Ghana - Consultant
2000 - 2002 Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service - Senior Health Service Administrator
1998 Navrongo War Memorial Hospital - Health Service Administrator
1997 – 1998 Tamale Regional Hospital/Teaching Hospital - Health Service Administrator
1996 – 1997 Salaga District Hospital - Health Service Administrator
1996 – 1997 Northern Regional Health Administration - Health Service Administrator
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Publications – All Publications to date |
Cadri, A., Nagumsi, B.A.A., Twi-Yeboah, A., Yeboah, L.D., Adomah-Afari, A., Ane-Loglo, M.G., & Aboagye, R.G. (2021). Facilitators and barriers to health seeking among people who use drugs in the Sunyani Municipality of Ghana: An exploratory study," BioMed Research International, 2021: 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/2868953.
Kondor, V., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2021). Health worker compliance with infection prevention and control policy in Ghana: A case study of La General Hospital. Texila International Journal of Public Health, 9 (2). DOI: 10.21522/TIJPH.2013.09.02.Art014.
Wuaku, D.A., Esena, R.K., Aniteye, P., & Adomah-Afari, A. (2021). Utilization of healthcare services by the elderly patients at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra. American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 77 (1), 48-62. http://asrjetsjournal.org/.
Bawontuo, V., Adomah-Afari, A., Amoah, W.W., Kuupiel, D., & Agyepong, I.A. (2021). Rural healthcare providers coping with clinical care delivery challenges: Lessons from three health centres in Ghana. BMC Family Practice, 22:32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01379-y.
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: 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: 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: 10.29252/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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-11-2013-0260.
Adomah-Afari, A., Ntow, S.K., Awuah-Werekoh, K., & Baffoe-Bonnie, T. (In press - to be published in November, 2021). Male prisoners’ perspectives of factors influencing access to quality healthcare provision at a prison infirmary, Ghana. The Prison Journal. |
Completed Projects | |||
| Title | Role on the Project | Duration of the Project | Funder |
| An Exploratory Study of Existing Relationship Marketing Orientation of Providers and Patients of Public and Private Sector Specialist Hospitals in Ghana | Principal Investigator | Two (2) years | Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID), University of Ghana. Project Ref. Number: #URF/8/Sf-018/2014/2015. |