Kwadwo Ansong Asante

ORCID: 0000-0002-8772-7389
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Research Areas
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
  • Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
  • Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment
  • African cultural and philosophical studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
  • Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Environmental remediation with nanomaterials
  • Fatty Acid Research and Health
  • Petroleum Processing and Analysis

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
2006-2021

Water Resources Commission of Ghana
2013-2020

Ehime University
2006-2019

Kintampo Health Research Centre
2019

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
1998

SummaryExposures to environmental pollutants during windows of developmental vulnerability in early life can cause disease and death infancy childhood as well chronic, non-communicable diseases that may manifest at any point across the span. Patterns pollution pollution-related change countries move through economic development. Environmental is now recognized a major morbidity mortality low- middle-income (LMICs). According World Health Organization, responsible for 8.9 million deaths...

10.1289/ehp.1510517 article EN public-domain Environmental Health Perspectives 2016-02-29

10.1016/j.cogsc.2019.04.001 article EN Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry 2019-04-09

The distribution and toxic equivalents (TEQs) of brominated chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans (PBDD/Fs PCDD/Fs) in soils from Agbogbloshie e-waste site (Ghana) were investigated. composition brominated/chlorinated dibenzofurans (PXDFs) diphenyl ethers (PBDEs, PCDEs, PXDEs) was examined using two-dimensional gas chromatography–time-of-flight mass spectrometry to elucidate possible formation pathways dioxins recycling. highest concentrations PCDD/Fs PBDD/Fs found, respectively, the...

10.1021/acs.est.8b06929 article EN Environmental Science & Technology 2019-02-22

Childhood cancer is not a high priority in health care financing for many countries, including Ghana. Delayed seeking and treatment abandonment, often due to the financial burden of families, are common reasons relatively low overall survival (OS) low-and middle-income countries. In this study, we analyzed cost-effectiveness extending insurance coverage children with Burkitt lymphoma (BL) We developed Markov model Microsoft Excel estimate costs effects BL when National Health Insurance...

10.1186/s12962-025-00603-1 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2025-01-27
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