Africa: History and Culture

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Authors: Jacob Owusu Sarfo

Our team at Academic Publishing House Researcher s.r.o. began a new electronic journal, Africa: History and Culture to tell the story of Africans and Africa in 2016. Two years after, the journal has published papers focusing on the role of Africa’s history and culture in fields like agriculture, arts, development, social sciences, health sciences, education, law, humanities, applied sciences, pure science, engineering, technology and other related disciplines.

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Authors: Jacob Owusu Sarfo

Ghana, which is part of sub-Saharan Africa is also noted for preterm and low-birthweight births. Following the inception of Kangaroo Mother Care in Colombia, this method has gained the approval of the World Health Organization as a standard approach for the care of preterm and low-birthweight infants. Though Ghana adopted this method in 2007, the standard Colombian approach was comprehensively introduced in Ghana after the 2015 training of 3 health professionals from the Eastern Regional Hospital. Consequently, the Eastern Regional Hospital has championed this care and trained several health workers and students. The centre has participated in several clinical and scientific meetings to share their findings.

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Authors: Priscilla Ofosu-Appiah

Globally, Evidence-Based Practice is most preferable for care of patients and training of nurses. Nonetheless, organisational culture in most developing African countries may serve as an impediment to its success. This paper seeks to explore some organisational cultural factors that can impact on the use of evidence in Africa among nurses. As Africa seeks to raise the quality of nursing practice and education, much has to be invested into the organisational culture frame of the healthcare environment.