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Justice Moses K. Aheto

University of Ghana

100 publications · 1,415 citations · ORCID 0000-0003-1384-2461

COVID-19 epidemiological studiesGlobal Maternal and Child HealthChild Nutrition and Water AccessMalaria Research and ControlBlood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

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Justice Moses K. Aheto specializes in biostatistics, epidemiology, and global health, with a strong emphasis on spatial modeling and advanced statistical methods to address public health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa. Aheto's research focuses on mapping and predicting disease risks, particularly for malaria, malnutrition, and emerging infectious diseases, while also evaluating health system performance and vaccination coverage. The work frequently employs Bayesian geostatistical models and multilevel regression to inform targeted policy interventions.

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How do specific policy interventions aimed at improving female education and labor force participation accelerate the 'maternal mortality transition' in regions currently experiencing high maternal mortality?

Why this gap exists: While the retrieved literature establishes links between female education, political power, and health outcomes (e.g., [3], [6], [9]), no study directly addresses how specific labor or education policy interventions accelerate the 'maternal mortality transition' in high-mortality regions, leaving the mechanism and impact of such specific policies unresolved.

Sources

  1. Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 — The Lancet, 2024
  2. Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 — The Lancet, 2024
  3. Determinants of female labor force participation: implications for policy in Qatar — Cogent Social Sciences, 2022
  4. Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Power — Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023
  5. The labor force participation of Indian women before and after widowhood — Demographic Research, 2020
  6. The public health effects of interventions similar to basic income: a scoping review — The Lancet Public Health, 2020
  7. Differential impact of maternal education on under-five mortality in rural and urban India — Health & Place, 2023
  8. Public Health Expenditure and Under-five Mortality in Nigeria: An Overview for Policy Intervention — Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2020
  9. Efficacy of companion-integrated childbirth preparation for childbirth fear, self-efficacy, and maternal support in primigravid women in Malawi — BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
  10. The contribution of female health to economic development — The Economic Journal, 2020

What is the comparative effectiveness of telemedicine versus traditional in-person care in maintaining essential antenatal coverage and reducing maternal mortality in low-income and middle-income countries during future health system shocks?

Why this gap exists: While abstracts [4], [7], [8], and [9] discuss digital tools and maternity care in low- and middle-income countries, none provide a direct comparative effectiveness analysis of telemedicine versus in-person care regarding maternal mortality during health system shocks, leaving the specific question unresolved.

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  1. COVID-19 and resilience of healthcare systems in ten countries — Nature Medicine, 2022
  2. Community Health Workers Can Provide Psychosocial Support to the People During COVID-19 and Beyond in Low- and Middle- Income Countries — Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
  3. Social Impacts and Responses Related to COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-income Countries — OpenDocs (Institute of Development Studies), 2020
  4. Seizing the moment to rethink health systems — The Lancet Global Health, 2021
  5. Use of mHealth in promoting maternal and child health in “BIMARU” states of India “A health system strengthening strategy”: Systematic literature review — PLOS Digital Health, 2024
  6. Investments for effective functionality of health systems towards Universal Health Coverage in Africa: A scoping review — PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
  7. Infant and young child feeding — OECD eBooks, 2023
  8. Facilitators and barriers to the implementation of a Mobile Health Wallet for pregnancy-related health care: A qualitative study of stakeholders’ perceptions in Madagascar — PLoS ONE, 2020
  9. The impact of digital interventions on health insurance coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services utilization in Kakamega, Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial — Health Policy and Planning, 2024
  10. Seeking digital maternity healthcare during the pandemic health system shock: a systematic review of women's experiences in low- and middle-income countries — Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2026

How does the consumption of plant-based proteins, specifically those high in anti-nutritional factors like phytates and trypsin inhibitors, affect mineral bioavailability and growth outcomes in children relying on these proteins as primary staples?

Why this gap exists: While the retrieved papers confirm that anti-nutritional factors like phytates and trypsin inhibitors reduce mineral bioavailability [0, 2], they focus on general adult health or crop improvement [1, 6] and do not provide direct evidence on the specific growth outcomes in children relying on these proteins as primary staples.

Sources

  1. Plant food anti-nutritional factors and their reduction strategies: an overview — Food Production Processing and Nutrition, 2020
  2. Sustaining Protein Nutrition Through Plant-Based Foods — Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
  3. Is There Such a Thing as “Anti-Nutrients”? A Narrative Review of Perceived Problematic Plant Compounds — Nutrients, 2020
  4. Faba Bean: An Untapped Source of Quality Plant Proteins and Bioactives — Nutrients, 2022
  5. Nutritional properties and health aspects of pulses and their use in plant‐based yogurt alternatives — Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, 2021
  6. Grains – a major source of sustainable protein for health — Nutrition Reviews, 2021
  7. Healthy and Resilient Cereals and Pseudo-Cereals for Marginal Agriculture: Molecular Advances for Improving Nutrient Bioavailability — Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
  8. Protein Quality in Perspective: A Review of Protein Quality Metrics and Their Applications — Nutrients, 2022
  9. Health Benefits of Plant-Based Nutrition: Focus on Beans in Cardiometabolic Diseases — Nutrients, 2021
  10. Bioavailability of Micronutrients From Nutrient-Dense Whole Foods: Zooming in on Dairy, Vegetables, and Fruits — Frontiers in Nutrition, 2020

Publications

Impact of household air pollution on under 5 mortalities and ARI in sub saharan africa: evidence from demographic and health survey 2010–2020

Scientific Reports · 2026 · 6 citations

Risk Perception and Impacts of Non-Conventional Medicine on COVID-19 in West Africa: A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM)

Preprints.org · 2026

Ordinary Differential Equation Modeling and a Novel Zubair‐Fréchet Distribution for Cholera in Ghana With Control Strategies

Health Science Reports · 2026

Rebalancing power in infectious disease modelling: Toward inclusive and contextual approaches

PLOS Global Public Health · 2026

Multi-actor collaborations in primary health care implementation: a Social Network Analysis of the primary health care strategy in Ghana

Health Policy and Planning · 2026

Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of malaria risk among children under five years of age in Ghana

BMC Infectious Diseases · 2025 · 8 citations

Developing a feasible frailty screening instrument for older people in Sub‐<scp>Saharan Africa</scp>: Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Geriatrics and gerontology international/Geriatrics & gerontology international · 2025 · 6 citations

Determining frailty index thresholds for older people across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa

Communications Medicine · 2025 · 5 citations

Integrating vulnerability and hazard in malaria risk mapping: the elimination context of Senegal

BMC Infectious Diseases · 2025 · 4 citations

Associations between education and ideal cardiovascular health metrics across 36 low- and middle-income countries

BMC Medicine · 2025 · 2 citations

On the use of Structural Equation Modeling in Infectious Disease Epidemiology: a systematic and critical review

Research Square · 2025 · 1 citations

Experience of intimate-partner controlling behaviours among women in Ghana: a novel three step latent class analysis approach with survey-weighted fractional-logit regression

BMC Women s Health · 2025 · 1 citations

A Systematic Review on the Economic Burden of the Most Prevalent Infectious Diseases in West Africa

Health Science Reports · 2025

Risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection in Ghana: evidence from the 2021–2022 HIV positive babies audit

AIDS Care · 2025

Spatial variability in the association of ambient PM2.5 exposure with child undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

Environment International · 2025

Experience of intimate-partner controlling behaviours among women in Ghana: a novel three step latent class analysis approach with survey-weighted fractional-logit regression

Research Square · 2025

Mapping Obesity Coverage in Florida Counties Using Interactive Web‐Based Mapping Tools to Support Targeted Policy and Intervention Efforts

Journal of Obesity · 2025 · corresponding author

Modelling spatiotemporal variation in under-five malaria risk in Ghana in 2016–2021

Malaria Journal · 2024 · corresponding author · 12 citations

Association between concurrence of multiple risk factors and under-5 mortality: a pooled analysis of data from Demographic and Health Survey in 61 low-and-middle-income countries

EClinicalMedicine · 2024 · 5 citations

A multilevel analysis of the predictors of health facility delivery in Ghana: Evidence from the 2014 Demographic and Health Survey

PLOS Global Public Health · 2024 · corresponding author · 3 citations

The effects of local economic development on female obesity (overweight) in sub‐Saharan Africa

Review of Development Economics · 2024 · 3 citations

Healthcare utilization and associated factors during the first wave of COVID‐19 pandemic in Ghana: A cross‐sectional survey

Health Science Reports · 2024 · 3 citations

Direct and Indirect Effects of Environmental and Socio-Economic Factors on COVID-19 in Africa Using Structural Equation Modeling

Stats · 2024 · 1 citations

Bayesian spatiotemporal modelling and mapping of malaria risk among children aged below 5 years in Ghana

Research Square · 2024

Economic development in sub-Saharan Africa is linked to increasing obesity rates in women

2024

Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity Associated with Moderate and Severe Disabilities: Results from the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) Wave 2 in Ghana and South Africa

Global Heart · 2023 · 27 citations

Anemia prevalence and its predictors among children under‐five years in Ghana. A multilevel analysis of the cross‐sectional 2019 Ghana Malaria Indicator Survey

Health Science Reports · 2023 · corresponding author · 23 citations

Predictors of mosquito bed net use among children under-fives in Ghana: a multilevel analysis of the 2019 malaria indicator survey

Malaria Journal · 2023 · corresponding author · 14 citations

Geospatial Analyses of Recent Household Surveys to Assess Changes in the Distribution of Zero-Dose Children and Their Associated Factors before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Vaccines · 2023 · corresponding author · 10 citations

Multiple indicators of violence against female sex workers and its associated factors in Ghana: Evidence from the 2015 integrated bio‐behavioral surveillance survey cross‐sectional study

Health Science Reports · 2023 · corresponding author · 9 citations

Does mobile renewal make health insurance more responsive to clients? A case study of the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana

BMJ Global Health · 2023 · 9 citations

Geostatistical modelling of child undernutrition in developing countries using remote-sensed data: evidence from Bangladesh and Ghana demographic and health surveys

Scientific Reports · 2023 · 7 citations

Role of actor networks in primary health care implementation in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review

Global Health Action · 2023 · 7 citations

COVID-19 outbreak control strategies and their impact on the provision of essential health services in Ghana: An exploratory-sequential study

PLoS ONE · 2023 · corresponding author · 7 citations

Geospatial Analyses of Recent Household Surveys to Assess Changes in the Distribution of Zero-Dose Children and Associated Factors Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Preprints.org · 2023 · 6 citations

Serum 25‐hydroxyvitamin D and hyaluronic acid levels as markers of fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease at the main tertiary referral hospital in Ghana: A case‐control study design

Health Science Reports · 2023 · 4 citations

Joint modelling of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and its associated factors among women in Ghana: Multivariate response multilevel modelling methods

PLOS Global Public Health · 2023 · corresponding author · 3 citations

Cardiovascular physical examination as a screening tool for congenital heart disease in newborns at a teaching hospital in Ghana

Ghana Medical Journal · 2023 · 1 citations

Multilevel modelling of neonatal mortality in Ghana: Does household and community levels matter?

Heliyon · 2023 · 1 citations

Anemia prevalence and its predictors among children under-five years in Ghana. A multilevel analysis of the 2019 Ghana malaria indicator survey

Research Square · 2023

Modelling spatiotemporal variation in under-five malaria risk in Ghana in 2016-2021

Research Square · 2023

Predictors of mosquito bed net use among children under-fives in Ghana: A multilevel analysis of the 2019 malaria indicator survey

Research Square · 2023

Multiple indicators of violence against female sex workers and its associated factors in Ghana: Evidence from the 2015 Integrated Bio-Behavioural Surveillance Survey

Research Square · 2023

Multiple indicators of violence against female sex workers and its associated factors in Ghana: Evidence from the 2015 Integrated Bio-Behavioural Surveillance Survey

Research Square · 2023

Additional file 2 of Mapping under-five child malaria risk that accounts for environmental and climatic factors to aid malaria preventive and control efforts in Ghana: Bayesian geospatial and interactive web-based mapping methods

Open MIND · 2023 · corresponding author

Assessing the characteristics of un- and under-vaccinated children in low- and middle-income countries: A multi-level cross-sectional study

PLOS Global Public Health · 2022 · 42 citations

Mapping the distribution of zero-dose children to assess the performance of vaccine delivery strategies and their relationships with measles incidence in Nigeria

Vaccine · 2022 · 36 citations

Multilevel analysis of predictors of multiple indicators of childhood vaccination in Nigeria

PLoS ONE · 2022 · corresponding author · 29 citations

Mapping under-five child malaria risk that accounts for environmental and climatic factors to aid malaria preventive and control efforts in Ghana: Bayesian geospatial and interactive web-based mapping methods

Malaria Journal · 2022 · corresponding author · 25 citations

Assessment of oral health status in a Ghanaian population: rationale, methods, and population characteristics

BMC Oral Health · 2022 · 24 citations

Conditional probability and ratio‐based approaches for mapping the coverage of multi‐dose vaccines

Statistics in Medicine · 2022 · 17 citations

Spatio-temporal variations in neonatal mortality rates in Ghana: An application of hierarchical Bayesian methods

PLOS Global Public Health · 2022 · 10 citations

Prevalence of common adverse events experienced following COVID‐19 vaccination and its associated factors in Ghana: Cross‐sectional study design

Health Science Reports · 2022 · corresponding author · 7 citations

Mapping the distribution of zero-dose children to assess the performance of vaccine delivery strategies and their relationships with measles incidence in Nigeria

medRxiv · 2022 · 2 citations

Mapping under-five child malaria risk that accounts for environmental and climatic factors to aid malaria preventive and control efforts in Ghana: Bayesian geospatial and interactive web- based mapping methods

Research Square · 2022 · corresponding author · 2 citations

COVID-19 Outbreak Control Strategies and their Impact on the Provision of Essential Health Services in Ghana: An Explanatory-Sequential Study

medRxiv · 2022 · 1 citations

Multiple indicators of violence against female sex workers and its associated factors in Ghana: Evidence from the 2015 Integrated Bio-Behavioural Surveillance Survey

Research Square · 2022 · 1 citations

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Figshare · 2022

Changes in Serum Electrolytes in Blood Transfused and Non-Transfused Post-Operative Patients at a National Referral Hospital in Ghana

Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana · 2022

Multiple indicators of violence against female sex workers in Ghana: analysis of the prevalence and the associated factors

Research Square · 2022

Fibrosis data

Figshare · 2022 · corresponding author

A predictive model, and predictors of under-five child malaria prevalence in Ghana: How do LASSO, Ridge and Elastic net regression approaches compare?

Preventive Medicine Reports · 2021 · 37 citations

Mathematical modeling of COVID-19 infection dynamics in Ghana: Impact evaluation of integrated government and individual level interventions

Infectious Disease Modelling · 2021 · 31 citations

Geostatistical analysis, web-based mapping, and environmental determinants of under-5 stunting: evidence from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey

The Lancet Planetary Health · 2021 · corresponding author · 31 citations

Geospatial analysis, web-based mapping and determinants of prostate cancer incidence in Georgia counties: evidence from the 2012–2016 SEER data

BMC Cancer · 2021 · corresponding author · 19 citations

Multilevel modeling, prevalence, and predictors of hypertension in Ghana: Evidence from Wave 2 of the World Health Organization's Study on global <scp>AGEing</scp> and adult health

Health Science Reports · 2021 · corresponding author · 14 citations

Predictive model and determinants of odds of neonates dying within 28 days of life in Ghana

Health Science Reports · 2021 · 6 citations

Multilevel analysis of risk factors associated with severe underweight among children under 5 years: evidence from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey

Health Sciences Investigations Journal · 2021 · 2 citations

Oral Health Status Assessment of an African Population: Rationale, Methods and Population Characteristics

Research Square · 2021

Referee report. For: Prevalence and determinants of unmet family planning needs among women of childbearing age in The Gambia: analysis of nationally representative data [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2021 · corresponding author

Limiting spread of COVID-19 in Ghana: Compliance audit of selected transportation stations in the Greater Accra region of Ghana

PLoS ONE · 2020 · 87 citations

Cervical cancer screening practices among women in Ghana: evidence from wave 2 of the WHO study on global AGEing and adult health

BMC Women s Health · 2020 · corresponding author · 68 citations

Simultaneous quantile regression and determinants of under-five severe chronic malnutrition in Ghana

BMC Public Health · 2020 · corresponding author · 40 citations

A predictive model and socioeconomic and demographic determinants of under-five mortality in Sierra Leone

Heliyon · 2020 · 39 citations

Geostatistical analysis and mapping: social and environmental determinants of under-five child mortality, evidence from the 2014 Ghana demographic and health survey

BMC Public Health · 2020 · corresponding author · 13 citations

Prevention of COVID-19 in Ghana: Compliance audit of selected transportation stations in the Greater Accra region of Ghana

medRxiv · 2020 · 11 citations

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 · 2020 · corresponding author · 9 citations

Mammography examination among women aged 40 years or older in Ghana: evidence from wave 2 of the World Health Organization’s study on global AGEing and adult health multicountry longitudinal study

Public Health · 2020 · corresponding author · 9 citations

Simultaneous quantile regression and determinants of under-five severe chronic malnutrition in Ghana.

Research Square · 2020 · corresponding author · 2 citations

Geostatistical Analysis, Web-Based Mapping and Environmental Determinants of Under-Five Chronic Malnutrition (Stunting): Evidence from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey

SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · corresponding author · 1 citations

Geospatial analysis, web-based mapping and determinants of prostate cancer incidence in Georgia counties: evidence from the 2012-2016 SEER data

Research Square · 2020 · corresponding author · 1 citations

Referee report. For: Prevalence and determinants of unmet family planning needs among women of childbearing age in The Gambia: analysis of nationally representative data [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2020 · corresponding author

Multilevel modelling, prevalence, and predictors of hypertension in Ghana: Evidence from Wave 2 of the World Health Organization’s Study on Global AGEing and adult health

Research Square · 2020 · corresponding author

COVID-19 Lorry Stations compliance to guidelines study data

Figshare · 2020

Geospatial Analysis, Web-Based Mapping and Determinants of Prostate Cancer Incidence in Georgia Counties: Evidence from the 2012-2016 SEER Data.

2020 · corresponding author

Predictive model and determinants of under-five child mortality: evidence from the 2014 Ghana demographic and health survey

BMC Public Health · 2019 · corresponding author · 182 citations

Hypertension in older adults in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis

PLoS ONE · 2019 · 169 citations

Determinants of systemic hypertension in older adults in Africa: a systematic review

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders · 2019 · 48 citations

Prevalence and risk factors associated with non-traffic related injury in the older population in Ghana: Wave 2 of the WHO Study on Global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

Preventive Medicine Reports · 2019 · corresponding author · 10 citations

Simultaneous quantile regression and determinants of under-five severe chronic malnutrition in Ghana.

Research Square · 2019 · corresponding author · 4 citations

Multilevel modelling, prevalence and predictors of hypertension in Ghana: Evidence from Wave 2 of the World Health Organization’s Study on Global AGEing and adult health

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2019 · corresponding author · 1 citations

Geostatistical analysis and mapping: Social and environmental determinants of under-five child mortality, evidence from the 2014 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey.

Research Square · 2019 · corresponding author

Modelling and forecasting spatio-temporal variation in the risk of chronic malnutrition among under-five children in Ghana

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology · 2017 · corresponding author · 42 citations

Prevalence, awareness, and associated risk factors of hypertension in older adults in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Systematic Reviews · 2017 · 26 citations

Additional file 1: of Prevalence, awareness, and associated risk factors of hypertension in older adults in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Figshare · 2017

Additional file 2: of Prevalence, awareness, and associated risk factors of hypertension in older adults in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Figshare · 2017

Additional file 1: of Prevalence, awareness, and associated risk factors of hypertension in older adults in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Figshare · 2017

Additional file 2: of Prevalence, awareness, and associated risk factors of hypertension in older adults in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Figshare · 2017

Modelling malnutrition among under-five-year-old children in Ghana

Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 2016 · corresponding author · 1 citations

Childhood Malnutrition and Its Determinants among Under‐Five Children in <scp>G</scp>hana

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology · 2015 · corresponding author · 128 citations