User:Eowoyele/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.)Healthcare in Ghana

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article based off my area of study. I am currently researching healthcare in Ghana and an organization that I am working with is trying to make healthcare more accessible to its rural communities.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead Section

Although the lead section of this article is interesting, it fails to effectively tell the reader what to expect in the article and fails to introduce its main sections. The idea of herbalists and traditional forms of medicine could possibly another main section or could fit into the history section. There it could explained as a useful form of medicine to Ghanaians in colonial times.

Content

All the content throughout out the article is relevant to the topic of Healthcare in Ghana. The authors should discuss in more detail under the Healthcare in the 21st section. The authors may want to add more information about the current use of traditional medicine and if citizens in rural communities are opting to use it because of the inaccessibility of formal medicine. They also may want to go more in depth about the influence of the church and international organizations on the Ghanaian healthcare sector.

Tone and Balance

The authors are able to maintain a neutral point view throughout the article. They present facts without making the reader feel as though they have a clear opinion about the content.

Sources and Relevance

Some of the sources used could be updated with more recent materials. For example, the data on the Ghanaian expenditure for healthcare is from 2010. It maybe beneficial to update it, as it may provide insight in to how the Ghanaian Government is currently servicing it citizens.

Images and Media

Most of the images used in this article added to the information provided, however the first image in lead section did not seem to fit where it was placed. The image was a chart comparing the monthly income of the Ghanaian nurse to that of nurses in the UK. It just seemed to be unnecessary where it was place and no has relevance to to the written information written in the lead section.

Talk Page

The talk page was empty for this article, so it prompts me to think that there may only be one author currently for this page. Some content from the Health in Ghana article was copied into this article, so perhaps meaningful discussions concerning this articles' content took place on another talk page.

Overall Impressions

Overall this article was well written and was full of relevant sources. It could add a bit more information in some place, but seems to be pretty well developed already. I would like to see more contributions and collaborations on the talk page to ensure that the all the author's content is accurate and relevant.