Papers by Chernor Aruna Bah
The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2022
6 months of the pandemic, the global incidence of orphanhood more than doubled from about 127 000... more 6 months of the pandemic, the global incidence of orphanhood more than doubled from about 127 000 per month to just over 250 000 per month. This increase occurred when vaccines were widely available in many countries. Since then, a new variant (omicron) has increased mortality again, and future variants might again change the geographical pattern of orphaning. Optimal interventions will continue adapting to young people's changing developmental stage, specific situation, and cultural context. Unwin and colleagues focus our attention on children and adolescents who are affected by parental deaths; it is worth remembering post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (ie, long COVID-19) has not been well defined yet. 9 We do not know population prevalence or case trajectories for long COVID-19, or how long COVID-19 presents challenges to affected parents and their children. Children of parents with other chronic health challenges face various social, physical, educational, and economic adversities. 10 These potential adversities will need to be explored among parents with long COVID-19 to inform multilevel, multisystemic responses to support child resilience. COVID-19 orphanhood confronts us at a time nearing resource exhaustion across multiple systems. The consequences of orphanhood linger throughout the course of a lifetime, affecting futures of families, communities, and societies. We determine how long our communities will suffer the effects of COVID-19 by urgently determining the quality and force of our concern for orphaned young people. We declare no competing interests.
This paper empirically investigates the existence of the resource curse in Sierra Leone through l... more This paper empirically investigates the existence of the resource curse in Sierra Leone through looking at the relationship between economic growth and resource dependence. The study adopted a Barrow-type growth model to analyze the effect of natural resource dependence on economic growth. A time series approximation technique was employed using relevant data from Sierra Leone from 1975-2014. The results from the time series regressions found a positive relationship between the rate of economic growth and natural resource dependence. This means that, the findings of this paper rejected the resource curse hypothesis in the Sierra Leone context relative to the data and method (time series analysis) employed. The findings suggests that a 1% increase in total natural resources rents (% of GDP), as a proxy of resource dependence, improves the economic growth of the country by approximately 9% in the long run. To this end, the government should endeavor to improve the means and methods of...
The Lancet, 2019
The Sustainable Development Goals offer the global health community a strategic opportunity to pr... more The Sustainable Development Goals offer the global health community a strategic opportunity to promote human rights, advance gender equality, and achieve health for all. The inability of the health sector to accelerate progress on a range of health outcomes brings into sharp focus the significant impact of gender inequalities and restrictive gender norms on health risks and behaviours. In this paper we draw on evidence from the Series on Gender Equality, Norms and Health to dispel three myths on gender and health and describe persistent barriers to progress. We propose an agenda for action to reduce gender inequality and shift gender norms for improved health outcomes, calling on leaders in national governments, global health institutions, civil society organisations, academia, and the corporate sector to 1) focus on health outcomes and engage actors across sectors to achieve them; 2) reform the workplace and workforce to be more gender equitable; 3) fill gaps in data and eliminate gender bias in research; 4) fund civil society actors and social movements; and 5) strengthen accountability mechanisms. Paper 5 Lancet Series on Gender Equality, Norms and Health Key Messages of the Series • Gender norms and inequalities affect health outcomes for girls and women, boys and men, and gender minorities.
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Papers by Chernor Aruna Bah