research

Refereed Publications:

Journal Articles:

J1. Dobe, I. S., Afoakwah, C., Canana, N., Stewart, S., & Mocumbi, A. (2025). The cost and health-related quality of life of stroke management and care of acutely hospitalized cases in Mozambique. PloS one, 20(7), e0328823.

J2. Afoakwah, C., Warren, J., McCreanor, V., Banu, S., Schuetz, M., McPhail, S. M., & Vallmuur, K. (2025). Counting the cost of hospitalised injury using administrative data in Australia: three considerations from a retrospective cohort data linkage study. BMJ open, 15(2), e087878.

J3. Afoakwah, C., Kuwornu, P., Koomson, I., Brain, D., Xia, Q., McPhail, S., & Vallmuur, K. (2025). Recovery trajectories after a serious injury or illness: a longitudinal evaluation of health-related quality of life in an Australian cohort. Quality of Life Research, 1-11 

J4. Afoakwah, C., Warren, J., Watson, A., & Vallmuur, K. (2025). Data linkage between health and compensation systems improves the profiling of transport-related injuries. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 30, 101372.

J5. Kuwornu, J. P., Afoakwah, C., Koomson, I., Tyack, Z., Brain, D., Naicker, S., ... & McPhail, S. M. (2025). Improving our understanding of the longitudinal relationship between health-related quality of life and multimorbidity: The role of personality traits. Social Science & Medicine, 117820.

J6. Xia, Q., McPhail, S. M., Afoakwah, C., Vo, L. K., Lim, M., Brain, D., ... & Carter, H. E. (2025). Growth and changing landscape of the cost-utility literature: an Australian perspective, 1992-2022. Health Policy, 105319.

J7. Xu, H., Corley, A., Young, E. R., Doubrovsky, A., Ware, R. S., Afoakwah, C., ... & Marsh, N. (2024). Long guidewire peripheral intravenous catheters in emergency departments for management of difficult intravenous access: A multicenter, pragmatic, randomized controlled trial. Academic Emergency Medicine.

J8. Byrnes, J., Vale, M. J., Afoakwah, C., Grant, P., & Barnard, S. (2024). Coaching people with cardiovascular disease to close their ‘treatment gaps’ reduces hospital utilization, saves lives, and delivers net cost savings over 10 years. American Journal of Medicine Open, 100075.

J9. Koomson I, Afoakwah, C & Twumasi, MA (2024) Racial Diversity, Child Stunting and Underweight: policies design and promotion in South Africa, Journal of Policy Modeling.

J1. Koomson I, Lenzen S.& Afoakwah, C (2024) Informal care and financial stress: Longitudinal evidence from Australia, Stress & Health.

J11. Amoah J & Afoakwah C. (2023) Unravelling the health inequalities in Ghana: An intersectional perspective, Social Indicators Research.  

J12.  Okafor, C, Byrnes J., Stewart, S., Scuffham, P.& Afoakwah, C. (2023) Cost effectiveness of strategies to manage Atrial Fibrillation in middles-and-high-income countries: A systematic review, PharmacoEconomics.

J13. Afoakwah, C., Byrnes, J., Scuffham, P., & Nghiem, S. (2022). Testing for selection bias and moral hazard in private health insurance: Evidence from a mixed public‐private health system. Health Economics.

J14. Afoakwah, C., Deng, X., & Onur, I. (2022) Reforms on Education Inequality in Ghana, Review of Development Economics.

J15. Asfaw. A.M & Afoakwah, C. (2022)  Saving children’s lives through Interventions: A Quasi-Experimental  Analysis of GAVI, Health Economics, Policy and Law.

J16. Stewart, Y. Afoakwah, C, Chan, J. Strom, D. Playford, G. Strange. Counting the cost of premature mortality with progressively worse aortic stenosis: A clinical cohort study, The Lancet Healthy Longevity.

J17. Koomson, I.& Afoakwah, C. (2022) Can financial inclusion improve children’s learning outcomes and late school enrollment in a developing country? Applied Economics, 1-18

J18. Koomson, I., Afoakwah, C. & Ampofo, A. (2022) How does Ethnic Diversity affect Energy Poverty? Insights from South Africa, Energy Economics 106079

J19. Nghiem, S., Afoakwah, C., Scuffham, P., & Byrnes, J. (2022). A baseline profile of the Queensland Cardiac Record Linkage Cohort (QCard) study. BMC Cardiovascular disorders, 22(1), 1-9

J20. Nghiem, S., Afoakwah, C., Scuffham, P., & Byrnes, J. (2022). Benchmarking hospital safety and identifying determinants of hospital-acquired complication: the case of Queensland cardiac linkage longitudinal cohort. Infection Prevention in Practice, 4(1), 100198.

J21. Afoakwah, C., & Koomson, I (2021). How does school travel time impact children’s learning outcomes in a developing country? Review of Economics of the Household, 1-21.

J22. Nghiem, S., Tran, B., Afoakwah, C., Byrnes, J., & Scuffham, P. (2021). Wealthy, healthy and green: Are we there yet?. World Development, 147, 105628. 

J23. Afoakwah, C., Nghiem, S., Scuffham, P., Stewart, S., & Byrnes, J. (2021). Weather Trumps Festivity? More Cardiovascular Disease Events Occur in Winter than in December Holidays in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(19), 10158.

J24. Afoakwah, C., Nghiem, S., Scuffham, P., & Byrnes, J. (2021). Rising unemployment reduces the demand for healthcare services among people with cardiovascular disease: an Australian cohort study. The European Journal of Health Economics, 1-16.

J25. Nghiem, S., Williams, J., Afoakwah, C., Huynh, Q., Ng, S.k., Byrnes, J. (2021). Can Administrative Health Data Improve the Gold Standard? Evidence from a Model of the Progression of Myocardial Infarction. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

J26. Nghiem, S., Afoakwah, C., Scuffham, P., & Byrnes, J. (2021). Hospital frailty risk score and adverse health outcomes: evidence from longitudinal record linkage cardiac data. Age and Ageing, 50(5), 1778-1784. 

J27. Moholdt, T., Afoakwah, C., Scuffham, P., McDonald, C. F., Burrell, L. M., & Stewart, S. (2021). Excess mortality at Christmas due to cardiovascular disease in the HUNT study prospective population-based cohort in Norway. BMC Public Health, 21(1), 1-11.

J28. Nghiem, S., Afoakwah, C., Byrnes, J., & Scuffham, P. (2021). Lifetime Costs of Hospitalised Cardiovascular Disease in Australia: An Incidence-Based Estimate. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 30(8), 1207-1212. 

J29. Austin, R., Afoakwah, C, Quinn, M. C.,., Metke-Jimenez, A., Leroux, H., Atherton, J., ... & McGaughran, J. (2021). Investigation of current models of care for genetic heart disease in Australia: A national clinical audit. International Journal of Cardiology, 330, 128-134.

J30. Raatz, M., Ward, E. C., Marshall, J., Burns, C. L., Afoakwah, C., & Byrnes, J. (2021). A time and cost analysis of speech pathology paediatric feeding services delivered in-person versus via telepractice. Journal of telemedicine and telecare, 1357633X211012883. 

J31. Afoakwah, C., Deng, X., & Onur, I. (2020). Women’s bargaining power and children’s schooling outcomes: evidence from Ghana. Feminist Economics, 26(3), 1-29.

J32. Afoakwah, C., Nghiem, S., Scuffham, P., Huynh, Q., Marwick, T., & Byrnes, J. (2020). Impacts of air pollution on health: evidence from longitudinal cohort data of patients with cardiovascular diseases. The European Journal of Health Economics, 21, 1025-1038.

J33. Nghiem, S., Sajeewani, D., Henderson, K., Afoakwah, C., Byrnes, J., Moyle, W., & Scuffham, P. (2020). Development of frailty measurement tools using administrative health data: A systematic review. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 104102.

J34. Raatz, M., Ward, E. C., Marshall, J., Afoakwah, C., & Byrnes, J. (2020). “It Takes a Whole Day, Even Though It’s a One-Hour Appointment!” Factors Impacting Access to Pediatric Feeding Services. Dysphagia, 1-11.

J35. Tran, B. X., Nghiem, S., Afoakwah, C., Ha, G. H., Doan, L. P., Nguyen, T. P., ... & Ho, R. C. (2020). Global mapping of interventions to improve the quality of life of patients with cardiovascular diseases during 1990–2018. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 18(1), 1-10.

J36. Byrnes, J., Nghiem, S., Afoakwah, C., & Scuffham, P. A. (2020). Queensland cardiovascular data linkage (QCard): a population-based cohort study. F1000Research, 9, 282.

J37. Tran, B. X., Nghiem, S., Afoakwah, C., Latkin, C. A., Ha, G. H., Nguyen, T. P., ... & Ho, R. (2019). Characterizing obesity interventions and treatment for children and youths during 1991–2018. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(21), 4227.

J38. Afoakwah, C., Deng, X., & Onur, I. (2018). Malaria infection among children under-five: the use of large-scale interventions in Ghana. BMC Public Health, 18(1), 1-13.

J39. Afoakwah, C., Nunoo, J., & Andoh, F. K. (2015). Effect of insecticide-treated bed net usage on under-five mortality in northern Ghana. Malaria Journal, 14(1), 1-6.

J40. Peprah, J. A., Afoakwah, C., & Koomson, I. (2015). Savings, entrepreneurial trait and self-employment: evidence from selected Ghanaian Universities. Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, 5(1), 1-17.

Book Chapters:

B1. Peprah, J. A., Afoakwah, C., & Koomson, I. (2020). Analysis of Crop Yield Volatility Among Smallholder Farmers in Ghana. In Inclusive Green Growth (pp. 69-89). Springer, Cham.

 B2. Novignon, J., Frempong, R. B., & Afoakwah, C. Access to Markets, Food Security and Poverty in Ghana: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers. Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets. Available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clifford-Afoakwah/publication/323028095_Access_to_Markets_Food_Security_and_Poverty_in_Ghana_Evidence_from_Smallholder_Farmers/links/5a7d4c3baca272341aedbd41/Access-to-Markets-Food-Security-and-Poverty-in-Ghana-Evidence-from-Smallholder-Farmers.pdf#page=59

 Other Refereed Publications:

O1. Peprah, J. A., Afoakwah, C., & Koomson, I. (2017). Reducing Crop Yield Volatility Among Smallholder Farmers. UNU-INRA Policy Briefs. United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.

O2. Peprah, J. A., Afoakwah, C., & Koomson, I. (2016). Crop yield volatility among smallholder farmers in Ghana. United Nations University Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.

O3. Afoakwah, C., & Dauda, F. (2016). Employment status and educational attainment among disabled Ghanaians (No. 2016/56). WIDER Working Paper.

Completed Reports: 

R1. Afoakwah, C, Nghiem, S. Scuffham, P. & Byrnes (2019) Improving rural health through interventions: the role of telehealth.  Metro North Hospital and Health Service (MNHS), Brisbane, Queensland.

R2. Vij, A., Connor, J., Afoakwah, C. & Baddeley, M. (2019). Future Urban and Regional Settlement Patterns: Scenario Analysis. Regional Australia Institute: Canberra