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Social Isolation in COVID-19: Impact of Loneliness and NCDs on Mental and Physical Health of Older Adults
Social isolation and loneliness have been linked to negative physical and mental health outcomes, including increased depression and anxiety...
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Perceptions about health-risk awareness and lifestyle change among women at risk for develo** cardiometabolic disease: a qualitative study
BackgroundThe reproductive years provide a window into future risk for Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM); women’s risk is seven to 10 times higher after...
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Does High Out-of-Pocket Payment Improves Self-Rated Health Among the Elderly in India?
High disease burden among the elderly often lead to higher demand and use of healthcare. Higher use of healthcare is associated with high...
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Comparative Analysis on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases on Catastrophic Spending and Impoverishment in Tanzania
The question of whether communicable or non-communicable diseases have higher economic effects on households is rarely explored from the global to...
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Roles and Training of Community Health Practitioners in Elderly Care
Primary healthcare covers a wide range of high-quality preventive care services to the public. With the phenomenon of the ageing population,...
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Male Aging, Intersectionality, and Social Change in Indian Society: A Literary Perspective
Older males have got little space in Indian Writing in English. Mir Nihal of Ahmed Ali’s Twilight in Delhi (1940), Aadam Aziz of Salman Rushdie’s...
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How Do We Cope with Pollution, a Form of Environmental Damage? Learning from a Community Devastated by Itai-Itai Disease
The heavy and chemical industries, which flourished during Japan’s era of rapid economic growth, wreaked egregious damage to the environment and...
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Mental Health and SDG3.3, 3d, 3.4 and 3.5
Human health is composed of both mental, physical, and social health. Thus, health and wellbeing are measured by the status of these three categories...
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Introduction: Protection and Patriarchy, Can They Co-exist?
Women of Pakistan suffer from complex and growing challenges related to poverty, disease burden, informal sector employment, violence, and low life...
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Underweight and Overweight Prevalence Among Indian Women
This chapter discusses the prevalence of underweight and overweight among women aged 15–49 in India. The analysis shows that while underweight among...
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“I was Confused About How to Take Care of Mom Because this Disease is Different Everyday”: Vietnamese American Caregivers’ Understanding of Alzheimer’s Disease
Family members provide the majority of caregiving to individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias. Asian American families...
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Multi-country clustering-based forecasting of healthy life expectancy
Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is an indicator that measures the number of years individuals at a given age are expected to live free of disease or...
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Diabetes and Hypertension Among Indian Women
This chapter examines the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes in different regions of India. The prevalence of hypertension is higher among males...
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Drought and disproportionate disease: an investigation of gendered vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS in less-developed nations
Environmental change and climate-related disasters are an under-examined factor impacting women’s health, globally. Drawing on ecofeminist theory, we...
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Climate Change and Health Impacts on Vulnerable Communities: The Case of Kala-Azar (Visceral Leishmaniasis) in Nepal
Leishmaniasis continues to pose a major public health problem in develo** countries, including Nepal. It is climate sensitive. Change in...
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Disruptions of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep/Wake Cycles in Neurologic Disorders
Throughout evolution, the temporal solar cycles of our rotating planet were internalized via circadian rhythms. These ~24-h internal rhythms drive...
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Caregiving intensity and its association with subjective views of ageing among informal caregivers with different sociodemographic background: a longitudinal analysis from Germany
We analysed whether care time, burden and range of caregiving tasks were associated with informal caregivers’ subjective views of ageing (measured as...
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Dementia Among Elderly
Dementia, a disease of the elderly, is characterized by a global decline in cognitive functions. The prevalence of dementia increases with advancing...
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The Mediterranean and MIND Dietary Patterns: Associations with Cognition and Psychological Distress Among Latinos
Background: Latinos experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease (e.g., diabetes, obesity, depression), which increases their risk for...