Gender disparities of chronic musculoskeletal disorder burden in the elderly Ghanaian population: study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE WAVE 1).

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Published in BMC Musculoskelet Disord on August 19, 2015

Authors

Emmanuel Kweku Nakua1, Easmon Otupiri2, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku3, Ellis Owusu-Dabo4,5, Peter Agyei-Baffour6, Alfred Edwin Yawson7, Gloria Folson8, Sandra Hewlett9

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. emmanngh@gmail.com.
2: Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. easmono@yahoo.com.
3: Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. vmdzomeku@gmail.com.
4: Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. owusudabo@yahoo.com.
5: Kumasi Collaborative Center for Tropical Research, Kumasi, Ghana. owusudabo@yahoo.com.
6: Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. agyeibaffour@yahoo.co.uk.
7: Department of Community, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, School of Public Health, Korle-Bu, Accra, Ghana. aeyawson@yahoo.com.
8: Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana. GFolson@noguchi.mimcom.org.
9: College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana School of Medicine and Dentistry, Korle-Bu, Accra, Ghana. sandrahewlett@yahoo.co.uk.

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