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Dr Kwasi Frimpong

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 0405026844
Mobile: 0451 345 551
Email: K.FRIMPONG@ECU.EDU.AU, frimpongk@hotmail.com, frimyaam@gmail.com
Campus: Joondalup  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5021-7804

Kwasi is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Medical and Health Sciences.

Background

My research interests are in climate change adapatation and mitigation for sustainable development, climate change and environmental health, and heat stress vulnerability in the developing world. Perhaps foremost, I've examined heat vulnerability and climate change on farmers in Africa region with special emphasis on Ghana using mixed methodology (qualitative, quantitative and heat stress measuring equipment) to identify heat perception, adapataion and barriers of heat exposure in the context of climate change and projections of future vulnerability. I am also interested in all other aspects of applied climatology, including climate and sustainable development, climate and mining, climate and health of farm workers. All in all I am interested in promoting sustainable development through advancing population health and ensuring climate change adaptaion and mitigation.

Professional Associations

  • International Society of Biometrology
  • Environmental Health Australia
  • Australian Ecological Society

Research Areas and Interests

  • Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation
  • Health Promotion and Health Program Planning
  • Biometeorology
  • Climate
  • Climate Change
  • Climate And Health
  • Environmental/climate security for sustainable Health Mnagement
  • Heat stress, Climate change and Developing  World
  • Health System Assessment
  • Sustainable Management of Land Resources and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Social Impact Assessment
  • Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Carbon Management and Green Development Mechanism

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2015.
  • Master of Health Sciences, Finland, 2010.
  • Bachelor of Education, Ghana, 2001.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Nunfam, VF., Kwanin, BA., Frimpong, K. (2024). Ecology of emergency care in lower‑tier healthcare providers in Ghana: an empirical data‑driven Bayesian network analytical approach. Internal and Emergency Medicine, 2024(Article in press), 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-024-03607-6.

2022

Journal Articles

2021

Journal Articles

  • Nunfam, V., Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Adusei-Asante, K., Van Etten, E., Frimpong, K., Adjei-Mensah, I., Oosthuizen, J. (2021). Construct validity and invariance assessment of the social impacts of occupational heat stress scale (SIOHSS) among Ghanaian mining workers. Science of the Total Environment, 771(1 June 2021), Article number 144911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144911.
  • Adua, E., Afrifa-Yamoah, E., Frimpong, K., Adama, E., Karthigesu, S., Anto, E., Aboagye, E., Yan, Y., Wang, Y., Tan, X., Wang, W. (2021). Construct validity of the Suboptimal Health Status Questionnaire-25 in a Ghanaian population. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 19(July 2021), Article number 180. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01810-z.
  • Nunfam, V., Adusei-Asante, K., Van Etten, E., Frimpong, K., Oosthuizen, J. (2021). Estimating the magnitude and risk associated with heat exposure among Ghanaian mining workers. International Journal of Biometeorology: the description, causes, and implications of climatic change, 65(12), 2059-2075. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-021-02164-3.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Nunfam, V., Adusei-Asante, K., Frimpong, K., Van Etten, E., Oosthuizen, J. (2020). Barriers to occupational heat stress risk adaptation of mining workers in Ghana. International Journal of Biometeorology: the description, causes, and implications of climatic change, 64(7), 1085–1101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01882-4.
  • Frimpong, K., Odonkor, S., Kuranchie, F., Nunfam, V. (2020). Evaluation of heat stress impacts and adaptations: perspectives from smallholder rural farmers in Bawku East of Northern Ghana. Heliyon, 6(4), Article number e03679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03679.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Nunfam, V., Adusei-Asante, K., Van Etten, E., Oosthuizen, J., Adams, S., Frimpong, K. (2019). The nexus between social impacts and adaptation strategies of workers to occupational heat stress: a conceptual framework. International Journal of Biometeorology: the description, causes, and implications of climatic change, 63(12), 1693-1706. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01775-1.
  • Nunfam, V., Oosthuizen, J., Adusei-Asante, K., Van Etten, E., Frimpong, K. (2019). Perceptions of climate change and occupational heat stress risks and adaptation strategies of mining workers in Ghana. Science of the Total Environment, 657(March 2019), 365-378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.480.
  • Nunfam, V., Van Etten, E., Oosthuizen, J., Adusei-Asante, K., Frimpong, K. (2019). Climate change and occupational heat stress risks and adaptation strategies of mining workers: Perspectives of supervisors and other stakeholders in Ghana. Environmental Research, 169(February 2019), 147-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.11.004.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Ngwenya, B., Oosthuizen, J., Cross, M., Frimpong, K. (2018). Heat Stress and Adaptation Strategies of Outdoors Workers in the City of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health Care, 5(1), Article no.100034. https://doi.org/10.24966/CMPH-1978/100034.
  • Ngwenya, B., Oosthuizen, J., Cross, M., Frimpong, K. (2018). Emerging heat-related climate change influences; a public health challenge to health care practitioners and policy makers: Insight from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 27(March 2018), 596-601. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.10.012.
  • Ngwenya, B., Oosthuizen, J., Cross, M., Frimpong, K., Nombulelo Chaibva, C. (2018). A Review of Heat Stress Policies in the Context of Climate Change and Its Impacts on Outdoor Workers: Evidence From Zimbabwe. International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 9(1), 11 pages. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSESD.2018010101.
  • Nunfam, V., Adusei-Asante, K., Van Etten, E., Oosthuizen, J., Frimpong, K. (2018). Social impacts of occupational heat stress and adaptation strategies of workers: a narrative synthesis of the literature. Science of the Total Environment, 643(1 December 2018), 1542-1552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.255.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Frimpong, K., Van Etten, E., Oosthuizen, J., Nunfam, V. (2017). Heat exposure on farmers in Northeast Ghana. International Journal of Biometeorology: the description, causes, and implications of climatic change, 61(3), 397-406. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-016-1219-7.
  • Adua, E., Roberts, P., Sakyi, S., Yeboah, F., Dompreh, A., Frimpong, K., Anto, E., Wang, W. (2017). Profiling of cardio-metabolic risk factors and medication utilisation among Type II diabetes patients in Ghana: a prospective cohort study. Clinical and Translational Medicine, 6(1), Article 32. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40169-017-0162-5.
  • Adua, E., Frimpong, K., Li, X., Wang, W. (2017). Emerging issues in public health: a perspective on Ghana’s healthcare expenditure, policies and outcomes. EPMA Journal, 8(3), 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13167-017-0109-3.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Frimpong, K., Van Etten, E., Oosthuizen, J. (2016). Barriers of adaptation to heat stress in Northeast Ghana. The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 8(2), 53-65.
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