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“You Can’t Look at an Orange and Draw a Banana”: Using Research Evidence to Develop Relevant Health Policy in Ghana

Ayaga A. Bawah, Adriana A.E. Biney and Pearl Kyei
Global Health: Science and Practice September 2022, 10(Supplement 1):e2100693; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00693
Ayaga A. Bawah
aUniversity of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
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vol. 10 no. Supplement 1 e2100693
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00693
PubMed 
36109053

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Global Health: Science and Practice
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2169-575X
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  • Received: November 3, 2021
  • Accepted: February 16, 2022
  • Published online September 15, 2022.

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© Bawah et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-21-00693

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  1. Ayaga A. Bawaha⇑,
  2. Adriana A.E. Bineya,
  3. Pearl Kyeia
  1. aUniversity of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
  1. Correspondence to Ayaga Bawah (aabawah{at}ug.edu.gh).
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