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Malnutrition and its determinants among older adults people in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2020
BMC Geriatrics
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Therefore, nutritional and social support activities are essential for older adults, particularly of those who are socio-economically disadvantaged and advanced age. ...
Data from 662 older adults were collected through face to face interviews using a structured questionnaire. ...
Acknowledgements We would like to thank study participants for their willingness to participate in the study. Our appreciation will also go to Addis Ababa Health Bureau for materials support. ...
doi:10.1186/s12877-020-01917-w
pmid:33228557
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The role of individual resources, health behaviour and age perception as determinants of sports participation in older age
2019
Ageing & Society
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Our results confirm slight inter-relationships between socio-economic resources and age-specific attitudes. ...
The sample contains 1,560 retired persons, aged 65 years and older, based on the fifth wave (2014) of the German Ageing Survey. ...
Therefore, status-specific and socio-cultural characteristics should be considered when designing sports programmes for older adults, especially regarding physicality and movement. ...
doi:10.1017/s0144686x19001260
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Predictors of participation in preventive health examinations in Austria
2013
BMC Public Health
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Health check-ups must increase among people at a young age, with a lower socio-economic status, migration background and in good health. ...
Preventive health check-ups in Austria are offered free of charge to all insured adults (98% of the population) and focus on early detection of chronic diseases, primary prevention, and health counseling ...
Maria Roberts for proof-reading. ...
doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-1138
pmid:24308610
pmcid:PMC3866300
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Factors Associated with Awareness, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Common Eye Diseases in the General Population in a Rural District in Bangladesh: The Bangladesh Population-based Diabetes and Eye Study (BPDES)
2015
PLoS ONE
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about diabetes and common eye diseases, educational attainment, socio-economic status, and medical history. ...
Public health promotion should be designed to address these knowledge gaps. Awareness, Attitudes and Practice of Common Eye Diseases in Bangladesh PLOS ONE | ...
preparation; Mohamed Dirani for his constructive feedback in the manuscript,
Author Contributions Conceived and designed the experiments: FMAI RC SZI. ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133043
pmid:26200458
pmcid:PMC4511641
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Patterns of health status and quality of life among older people in rural Viet Nam
2010
Global Health Action
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Conclusion: The findings reveal problems of inequality in health status and QoL among older adults in the study setting by sex, age, education and socio-economic status. ...
This paper, taking advantage of the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE study on global ageing and adult health, aims to describe the pattern of health status and QoL among older adults in a rural community of Viet Nam, ...
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Conflict of interest and funding The authors have not received any funding or benefits from industry to conduct this study. ...
doi:10.3402/gha.v3i0.2124
pmid:20959877
pmcid:PMC2957159
fatcat:5f2itt6xx5cnpayyb2ks2dc3tm
Socio-economic inequalities in the chronic diseases management among Chinese adults aged 45 years and above: a cross sectional study
2021
Archives of Public Health
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Results Subjects living in urban setting, with higher education attainment and economic status were more likely to have annual health checks, and to be diagnosed for those with hypertension, diabetes and ...
The aim of this study was to examine whether socio-economic inequalities exist in chronic disease management among Chinese adults, and whether the relationship between SES and chronic disease management ...
It could be beneficial to reduce the socio-economic inequalities in chronic diseases management and protect physic health of people with low SES. ...
doi:10.1186/s13690-021-00678-1
pmid:34462011
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Association of self-perceived income sufficiency with cognitive impairment among older adults: a population-based study in India
2021
BMC Psychiatry
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Methods Data for this study is derived from the 'Building Knowledge Base on Population Ageing in India'. The final sample size for the analysis after removing missing cases was 9176 older adults. ...
Further, while planning geriatric health care for older adults in India, priority must be given to financially backward, with no asset ownership, with poor health status, older-older, widowed, and illiterate ...
Results show that older adults who had never worked for last one year had the highest odds for impaired cognition compared to those who are retired or currently working after adjusting for socio-economic ...
doi:10.1186/s12888-021-03257-4
pmid:34001051
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Knowledge of iodine nutrition in the South African adult population
2005
Public Health Nutrition
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Compared with respondents from high socio-economic households, respondents from low socio-economic households were considerably less informed about aspects of iodine nutrition covered in this study. ...
Abstract Objectives: To determine the level of knowledge regarding iodine nutrition and its relationship with socio-economic status in the South African population. ...
Low LSM values indicated low socio-economic status and high values, high socio-economic status. ...
doi:10.1079/phn2004696
pmid:15975183
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Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: Background and evaluation design of the Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well initiative
2010
BMC Public Health
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The evaluation will capture process, weight status, socio-demographic, obesity-related behavioral and environmental data in intervention and comparison areas. ...
The Victorian Government has recently funded six disadvantaged communities across Victoria, Australia for three years to promote healthy eating and physical activity for children, families, and adults ...
Acknowledgements We acknowledge the assistance of Rebecca Doherty, the project managers/ officers from each of the five community intervention projects, and the editorial assistance of Tara Breheny. ...
doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-65
pmid:20152018
pmcid:PMC2836295
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Willingness to participate in prevention programs for cardiometabolic diseases
2015
BMC Public Health
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Conclusions: Willingness to participate in a health check depended on personal beliefs, whereas social aspects contributed most to willingness to participate in a lifestyle intervention program. ...
Results: The response rate was 63%. 56% of the participants in our study were willing to participate in a health check. ...
Previous studies also found an association between socio-economic status and willingness to participate in both the health check and lifestyle intervention program [15, 17] . ...
doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1379-0
pmid:25637105
pmcid:PMC4323020
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Determinants of dental care utilization by the adult population in Buenos Aires
2010
Medicina Oral
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Given that, as demonstrated in this work, spontaneous demand for attention is extremely low, public policies should aim to include this vulnerable population in preventive and scheduled care. ...
Conclusion: The section of the community that is less likely to visit their dentist regularly are those with higher socio-economic risk. ...
This study was designed with special attention paid to ensuring that the selection of homes in the housing survey reflected the socio-economic and health status of the community and that a representative ...
doi:10.4317/medoral.15.e316
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Impact of Socioeconomic status on depression of Elderly in Punjab, Pakistan
2020
Indian Journal of Science and Technology
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The ability to do routine activities in daily life is based on socioeconomic status was the most prevailing factor of having good mental health in old age. ...
Survey research design was used. Simple random sampling technique was used for the particular research. ...
The lower socio-economic status category illustrated that people having low socioeconomic status are more prone to depression as in the first category of low socio-economic status https://www.indjst.org ...
doi:10.17485/ijst/v13i47.1537
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Socio-economic differences in height and body mass index of children and adults living in urban areas of Karachi, Pakistan
2001
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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In order to determine the socio-economic difference in height status, the mean height in cm of adults was compared. ...
Socio-economic differences in weight status were not uniform among various age ± sex groups. ...
The author is grateful to the following members of the class of 1998 of the Food and Nutrition Department, Rana Liaqat Ali Khan Government College of Home Economics for collecting and inputting data for ...
doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1601172
pmid:11378815
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Prevalence and Socio-Demographic Correlates of Poor Mental Health Among Older Adults in Agricultural Areas of China
2020
Frontiers in Psychiatry
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However, continued surveillance of mental health status among older adults in China is still needed. ...
Conclusion: The prevalence of poor mental health among older adults in a predominantly agricultural area was lower than findings from many other countries and areas in China. ...
For instance, the number of adults over age 65 is expected to increase globally from 703 million to 1.5 billion between 2019 and 2050 (from 9 to 16% of the total population) (1) . ...
doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2020.549148
pmid:33250790
pmcid:PMC7674548
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Psychological Wellbeing, Physical Impairments and Rural Aging in a Developing Country Setting
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2011
Social Work and Community Practice
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There has been very little research on wellbeing, physical impairments and disability in older people in developing countries. ...
Low received support from children interacted with paralysis in being especially associated with low wellbeing. ...
Acknowledgements We thank Dr Bencha Yoddumnern-Attig, Dr Philip Guest and Prof Martin Prince for advice on the study design and methods, Ms Wannee Hutapat and Ms Jongjit Rithirong for data management, ...
doi:10.1201/b13134-17
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