Association between frequency of mass media exposure and maternal health care service utilization among women in sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for tailored health communication and education

• Richard Gyan Aboagye ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Gyan Aboagye, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

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

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

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• Abdul-Aziz Seidu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Gyan Aboagye, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

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

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Estate Management, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana, Centre for Gender and Advocacy, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-9054

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• Bright Opoku Ahinkorah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Richard Gyan Aboagye, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Abdul Cadri ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Social and Behavioural Science, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4993-6737

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• James Boadu Frimpong ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frimpongboadujames@gmail.com

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-1176

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• John Elvis Hagan ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Neurocognition and Action-Biomechanics-Research Group, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Nigussie Assefa Kassaw ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Sanni Yaya

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ All these authors are contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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