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Relationship between Care Burden and Health Anxiety in the Family Caregivers of the Older Adults with Alzheimer’s Disease
Background : Being a chronic and prevalent disease in older adults, Alzheimer’s disease requires extensive and long-term care from caregivers. The...
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Population, Burden of Disease, and Health Services
Current demographic patterns are very different from one country to another. The most likely pattern for the coming years is one of negative growth...
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The Quintuple Health Burden and Social Policy for Women in Pakistan
This chapter is about health policy for women of Pakistan and attempts to highlight the quintuple health burden facing women in the country,...
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Loss of life expectancy due to respiratory infectious diseases: findings from the global burden of disease study in 195 countries and territories 1990–2017
Understanding of the patterns of and changes in mortality from respiratory infectious diseases (RID) and its contribution to loss of life expectancy...
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Spirituality and Caregiver Burden of People with Intellectual Disabilities: an Empirical Study
In recent years, interest in topics related to disabilities has grown. However, little attention has been devoted to people who constantly care for...
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Disease-Specific Health Spending on Hospitalization among Elderly in India
Prevalence of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and its economic burden on households has drawn considerable attention in current time. However, the...
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Health Insurance as a Tool for Selecting Private Hospitalization and Mitigating Financial Burden in India: An Analysis of National Sample Survey Data
This study aims to investigate the association between having health insurance and the choice of hospitalization (public or private) and examine the...
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Chronic Kidney Disease and the Exposome of Ageing
The gap between improvements in lifespan and age-related health is widening. Globally, the demographic of ageing is increasing and there has emerged...
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Burden of care among primary caregivers’ of spinal cord injury patients attending a tertiary care center in Eastern Nepal
BackgroundNepal is a resource-constrained country where primary caregivers of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients face increasing physical, social,...
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Hepatitis B Virus Infection and the Ghanaian Healthcare Worker: Risk, Standardisation, and Disease Prevention
Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) infection is a global public health problem. Healthcare workers, especially those working in highly endemic regions of the...
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Psychoeducation versus psychoeducation integrated with yoga for family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease: a randomized clinical trial
We evaluate and compare the effectiveness of two psychoeducation programs on the burden and quality of life of family caregivers of people with...
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Protein Restriction in Aging and Disease
Protein restriction has emerged as a promising dietary intervention to promote health and combat age-related diseases. Extensive research conducted...
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Digital health, cardiometabolic disease and ethnicity: an analysis of United Kingdom government policies from 2010 to 2022
Recent health policies in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally have focussed on digitisation of healthcare. We examined UK policies for...
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The Intersection of Climate Crisis and Disease Outbreaks: Cataclysmic Consequences
A few of the negative effects of climate change that are threatening ecosystems include rising temperatures, extreme weather and sea level rise. The...
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Polypharmacy, drug-drug interactions, anticholinergic burden and cognitive outcomes: a snapshot from a community-dwelling sample of older men and women in northern Italy
Polypharmacy (PP) use is very common in older people and may lead to drug-drug interactions (DDIs) and anticholinergic burden (ACB) that may affect...
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Effectiveness of Supportive Educative Programs on the Care Burden of Informal Caregivers and Perceived Social Support of the Older Adults: a Quasi-experimental Study
Improved health facilities have increased life expectancy and longevity; the older adults population has thus been on the rise globally; and most...
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Contribution of modifiable risk factors on the burden of diabetes among women in reproductive age-group in India: a population based cross-sectional study
The diabetes burden is rapidly accelerating in India, particularly since the 2000s. We explore the burden and contribution of modifiable risk factors...
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The Burden of Arteriosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Ancient Populations
Arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are chronic inflammatory afflictions of the vascular system leading to stiffening and occlusion...
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Heart Disease and Ageing: The Roles of Senescence, Mitochondria, and Telomerase in Cardiovascular Disease
During ageing molecular damage leads to the accumulation of several hallmarks of ageing including mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence,...