Differences in physical and mental health symptoms among residents living near municipal solid waste sites: a cross sectional study in the Ashanti Region, Ghana.

"Declarations Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Ethics approval and consent to participateAll procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Committee on Human Research Publication and Ethics (CHRPE), School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana, provided ethical clearance for this study. Informed written and verbal consents were obtained from the study participants before data were collected. The procedures and protocol of the study was conducted according to the tenets of declaration of Helsinki. The study participants were also assured of the strict confidentiality and anonymity of the data they provided. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

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