Valentine Golden Ghanem with the Cocoa Clinic medical team and cocoa-sector community members during the 2024 Goaso health screening

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Ghana health indicators by region and district.

The atlas presents population, social determinants, service coverage and selected health outcomes for Ghana's 16 regions and 261 districts.

261
district profiles
5
mapped health indicators
3
medical-screening sites
7
mapped field records
Cocoa-farmers medical screening Valentine Golden Ghanem Goaso / 6 November 2024

01 — Interactive Atlas

National health geography at two scales

Compare Ghana's 16 regions, then move to any of its 261 districts. Every selection updates the adjacent evidence card without leaving the map.

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Bespoke HI-EI atlas engine · ECharts SVG Regional SDG health score
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Preparing Ghana's regional and district boundaries

Colours show quintiles for the selected indicator. They support comparison; they do not represent clinical thresholds or formal local-cluster tests.

02 — Comparative Context

Compare each selection with the national distribution

Select any region or district below to return to the atlas above and open its evidence card. The comparison follows the active map indicator and geographic level.

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Greater Accra

Regional SDG health score

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Ranked geography

Highest indicator values

16 regions
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03 — Mapped Field Activities

Seven documented activities at their recorded coordinates

Medical screening, scientific conferences, technical training and community health education are shown as dated field records. Hover over or focus a marker to preview its photograph; select it to update the record card.

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District boundaries are shown with seven verified field locations. Select a marker to open its photograph and record.

District boundary

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04 — Data Sources and Scope

Three data layers and seven analytical tables

The atlas combines administrative geography, district and regional health data, and a separate set of dated field records. Seven complete 261-row analytical tables were selected after review of 53 source CSV files. Incomplete fields are not reported as national measures.

261
district records joined
7
analytical tables in the evidence card
53
source CSV files reviewed
P1
Administrative boundaries

District polygons come from Ghana administrative boundary GeoJSON documented in the contributing repositories as Ghana Statistical Service-derived or OCHA HDX public geography. The same geometry supplies district perimeters, representative coordinates and the 16-region aggregation.

P2
Population and health evidence

District determinants draw chiefly from the 2021 Population and Housing Census. Ghana DHS 2019 and 2022 indicators remain identified as regional estimates assigned to districts within each survey region; NHIA and study-derived indices retain their stated analytical resolution.

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Dated field records

The seven event markers come from the site's documented activity register, with recorded dates, locations, coordinates, descriptions and local image paths. They are a professional field archive, not a national facility registry or epidemiological sample.

Interpretation: these indicators describe geographic context. Regional summaries are population-weighted. The atlas does not estimate individual risk, test causal effects or replace the methods reported by each source study.

  1. T1
    Demography and structural determinants

    GSS PHC 2021 population, poverty, literacy, employment, insurance and dependency measures at district level.

  2. T2
    Insurance and women's education

    PHC district context combined with DHS 2019/2022 regional insurance, education and facility-delivery estimates; regional proxies are disclosed in the source repositories.

  3. T3
    SDG, WASH, services and outcomes

    Census context, regional service indicators and derived health scores. Regional DHIMS2 measures remain uniform within their source region.

  4. T4
    Nutrition, anaemia and child health

    DHS 2022 regional outcomes modelled to district surfaces with PHC 2021 covariates; estimates are model-based, not direct district observations.

  5. T5
    Maternal and reproductive health

    DHS 2022 service indicators, PHC 2021 determinants and NHIA summaries assembled as an ecological district dataset.

  6. T6
    Immunisation coverage

    DHS 2022 regional immunisation estimates linked to district-varying PHC 2021 socioeconomic context; geographic resolution is retained in interpretation.

  7. T7
    Ranked structural vulnerability

    A reproducible index derived from six PHC 2021 structural determinants and ranked across 261 districts.