Change and Continuity in the Practice and Development of Geography in Ghana

Agyei‐Mensah, Samuel; Yaro, Joseph Awetori; Mensah, Joseph

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“…The majority of users have used mobile money to send or receive money. This result supports the studies by [2,11,15,32,33,35,36,39] where mobile wallets play a significant role in day to day life with the increase in the use of smartphones and access to the Internet. The result on the 35% of the respondents who never used mobile money services does not align with the previous results whereby 31% do not know about mobile money services and 23% have not heard of mobile money services.…”

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Users’ Perception on Knowledge Transfer via Mobile Money Services

Azizan¹,

Bakar²,

Rahman³

2021

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Mobile money is an electronic wallet service that allows users to store, send, and receive money. Safe and easy electronic payments make mobile money a popular alternative to bank accounts. Despite the convenient services offered to users, the adoption of mobile money is still low. Due to that, the objective of this study is to assess the perceptions of users on mobile money services as a convenient payment alternative. This study adapted the intra-organizational knowledge transfer (KT) model to understand how users perceive mobile money services. This model has been chosen because it is well accepted and recognized among the researchers. Szulanski's intra-organizational KT model consists of four stages, namely initiation, implementation, ramp-up, and integration. This study adopted interpretive structural modeling (ISM) as the methodology. ISM is a well-established methodology for identifying relationships among specific items, which define a problem or an issue. This approach has been increasingly used by various researchers to represent the interrelationships among various elements related to the issue. The data were collected using the survey. The surveys were randomly distributed via e-mail to users in Malaysia. 481 responses answered the survey. On average 69% of the respondents know about mobile money and 31% of the respondents do not know about it. Having said that, 77% of the respondents have heard of mobile money services whereby only 23% have not heard about it. These results show that around 8% of the respondents heard of mobile money services but they do not find out what it means.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 90%

Users’ Perception on Knowledge Transfer via Mobile Money Services

Azizan¹,

Bakar²,

Rahman³

2021

MJoSHT

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“…Such high prevalence and the abysmally low rates of BP control is largely responsible for the increasing burden of CVD mortality, particularly stroke, in Ghana. For example, in Accra, CVD rose from being the seventh and tenth cause of death in 1953 and 1966, to the number one cause of death in 1991 and 2001, respectively [ 8 ].…”

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A cluster-randomized trial of task shifting and blood pressure control in Ghana: study protocol

et al. 2014

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BackgroundCountries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are experiencing an epidemic of cardiovascular disease (CVD) propelled by rapidly increasing rates of hypertension. Barriers to hypertension control in SSA include poor access to care and high out-of-pocket costs. Although SSA bears 24% of the global disease burden, it has only 3% of the global health workforce. Given such limited resources, cost-effective strategies, such as task shifting, are needed to mitigate the rising CVD epidemic in SSA. Ghana, a country in SSA with an established community health worker program integrated within a national health insurance scheme provides an ideal platform to evaluate implementation of the World Health Organization (WHO) task-shifting strategy. This study will evaluate the comparative effectiveness of the implementation of the WHO Package targeted at CV risk assessment versus provision of health insurance coverage, on blood pressure (BP) reduction.MethodsUsing a cluster randomized design, 32 community health centers (CHCs) and district hospitals in Ghana will be randomized to either the intervention group (16 CHCs) or the control group (16 CHCs). A total of 640 patients with uncomplicated hypertension (BP 140–179/90–99 mm Hg and absence of target organ damage) will be enrolled in this study (20 patients per CHC). The intervention consists of WHO Package of CV risk assessment, patient education, initiation and titration of antihypertensive medications, behavioral counseling on lifestyle behaviors, and medication adherence every three months for 12 months. The primary outcome is the mean change in systolic BP from baseline to 12 months. The secondary outcomes are rates of BP control at 12 months; levels of physical activity, percent change in weight, and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables at 12 months; and sustainability of intervention effects at 24 months. All outcomes will be assessed at baseline, six months and 12 months. Trained community health nurses will deliver the intervention as part of Ghana’s community-based health planning and services (CHPS) program.DiscussionFindings from this study will provide policy makers and other stakeholders needed information to recommend scalable and cost-effective policy with respect to comprehensive CV risk reduction and hypertension control in resource-poor settings.Trial registrationNCT01802372.

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“…80 Although not expressly referring to urgency, the Tribunal was clearly concerned with the protection of the rights of the parties which were at issue there. 81 Urgency is also implicit in the requirement that in the circumstances immediate action is necessary and cannot wait until a final decision in a case, to protect the rights of both parties from irreparable harm. 82 Thus, the state of proceedings when a request is made and the estimated period likely to elapse before a decision on the principal claim will also be elements relevant to assessing the urgency of a matter.…”

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Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity (2 vols.)

Seibert-Fohr¹,

Röben²,

Vöneky³

et al. 2012

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On the occasion of Judge and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum's 70 th birthday, it gives us great pleasure to contribute to this Festschrift in his honour with a chapter on provisional measures in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Judge Wolfrum, as a Member of that Tribunal since 1996 and its President from 2005 to 2008, has greatly contributed to the evolution of the practice of the Tribunal and the development of its jurisprudence. Moreover, from both his judicial office in Hamburg and his academic office as Director of the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, he has made a great contribution to the international law of the sea and to international law more generally. The topic of our piece is thus perhaps a fitting tribute. A. General Comments on Provisional MeasuresThe essence of provisional measures is to protect the rights at issue of either party in a case pendente litis, and to prevent the extension or aggravation of a dispute. Such measures were * Vice-President of the International Court of Justice. ** Lecturer in Law, Durham University. Served as Associate Legal Officer/Law Clerk to Vice-President Tomka, as well as Judge Bruno Simma, at the International Court of Justice from 2007-2010. 1 One of the classic statements justifying the indication of provisional measures was given by the International Court of Justice in Fisheries Jurisdiction (United Kingdom v. Iceland; Federal Republic of Germany v. Iceland), Provisional Measures, ICJ Reports 1972, 16, para. 21, and 34, para. 22: "Whereas the right of the Court to indicate provisional measures as provided for in Article 41 of the Statute has its objective to preserve the respective rights of the Parties pending the decision of the Court, and presupposes that irreparable prejudice should not be caused to rights which are the subject of dispute in judicial proceedings, and that the Court's judgements should not be anticipated by reason of any initiative regarding the measures which are in issue …".discretion therefore permeates the very nature of provisional measures, although, in the case law of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at least, some criteria have been articulatedwhich help to define objectively the exercise of the power to indicate provisional measures. 2 ITLOS is not in a formal relationship with the ICJ, as both bodies stand independent of and separate from each other; yet in substance, there is a relationship between the two which follows from the fact that the substantive competences of both institutions are broadly situated in the field of the peaceful settlement of international disputes through judicial means. 3 There are of course differences in competence ratione materiae between the ICJ and the Tribunal.The ICJ has wider material jurisdiction over legal inter-state disputes in all areas of international law, whilst the Tribunal's jurisdiction is confined to the interpretation or application of UNCLOS or an international instrument related to the purposes of UNCLOS. 4How...

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Change and Continuity in the Practice and Development of Geography in Ghana

Cited by 4 publications

References 72 publications

Users’ Perception on Knowledge Transfer via Mobile Money Services

Users’ Perception on Knowledge Transfer via Mobile Money Services

A cluster-randomized trial of task shifting and blood pressure control in Ghana: study protocol

Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity (2 vols.)

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