About the Authors

Engelbert A. Nonterah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

drenanonterah@gmail.com

Affiliations Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana, Navrongo War Memorial Hospital, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana, Julius Global Health, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Isaiah A. Agorinya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Peterplatz, Basel, Switzerland

Edmund W. Kanmiki

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

Juliana Kagura

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

Mariatu Tamimu

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Emmanuel Y. Ayamba

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana

Esmond W. Nonterah

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana

Michael B. Kaburise

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana, Navrongo War Memorial Hospital, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana

Majeedallahi Al-Hassan

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Navrongo War Memorial Hospital, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana

Winfred Ofosu

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Upper East Regional Health Directorate, Ghana Health Service, PMB, Bolgatanga, Ghana

Abraham R. Oduro

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Navrongo, Ghana

John K. Awonoor-Williams

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Policy, Planning Monitoring Division, Ghana Health Service, Headquarters, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.