TY - JOUR
T1 - An assessment of the health sustainability of sanitation in Ghana: A quantitative analysis
AU - Basiru, Ibrahim
AU - Arkorful, Vincent Ekow
AU - Xu, Yi
AU - Gyekye, Eugene Kwasi
AU - Ibrahim, Abu Hanifa
N1 - Funding Information:
We are thankful to the anonymous reviewers and the editor for their comments and suggestions for improving the manuscript. I. B. would also like to extend thanks to the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO) for the scholarship awarded to him to study at the University of Science and Technology of China. This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Project Nos (72072167 and 72071193).
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© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - The present study aims to assess the improvements of sanitation system of Kumasi metropolitan area. Sanitation conditions in Africa remain awful with approximately 20% of the population reported to still engage in open defecation in Sub-Saharan Africa, despite major improvements in other climes of the world. In Ghana, the impacts of poor sanitation systems range from negatively impacting natural resources water quality, to causing health threats to the populations involved. Using health as selected sustainable sanitation, this research assesses reported cases of diseases and deaths associated with unsatisfactory sanitation from 2008 to 2015. Both primary and secondary data were employed. The primary data was collected through interview with key informants by purposive sampling. Quantitative data were analyzed via primary descriptive statistical methods. Results indicate slight improvements in the sanitation system. Our findings suggest that the number of diseases is high due to poor sanitation. However, statistics of deaths are minimal, and these were ascribed to improvements in health care in Ghana. The study has offered recommendations in order to improve sanitation system within the metropolis toward more sustainability. The research is significant because theory developers, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners can make use of its findings to tackle the problems of sustainable sanitation since theories and practices of sustainable sanitation are constantly evolving.
AB - The present study aims to assess the improvements of sanitation system of Kumasi metropolitan area. Sanitation conditions in Africa remain awful with approximately 20% of the population reported to still engage in open defecation in Sub-Saharan Africa, despite major improvements in other climes of the world. In Ghana, the impacts of poor sanitation systems range from negatively impacting natural resources water quality, to causing health threats to the populations involved. Using health as selected sustainable sanitation, this research assesses reported cases of diseases and deaths associated with unsatisfactory sanitation from 2008 to 2015. Both primary and secondary data were employed. The primary data was collected through interview with key informants by purposive sampling. Quantitative data were analyzed via primary descriptive statistical methods. Results indicate slight improvements in the sanitation system. Our findings suggest that the number of diseases is high due to poor sanitation. However, statistics of deaths are minimal, and these were ascribed to improvements in health care in Ghana. The study has offered recommendations in order to improve sanitation system within the metropolis toward more sustainability. The research is significant because theory developers, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners can make use of its findings to tackle the problems of sustainable sanitation since theories and practices of sustainable sanitation are constantly evolving.
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U2 - 10.1002/pa.2448
DO - 10.1002/pa.2448
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1472-3891
VL - 22
JO - Journal of Public Affairs
JF - Journal of Public Affairs
IS - 3
M1 - e2448
ER -
