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Economics of Ageing in India: Thematic Review of Literature
Population ageing is a universal phenomenon. The ageing trends indicate the rapid growth of the elderly population in India. The large number of...
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Equity in the Cuban Policy Response Against the Pandemic
Since the initial case of SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported on March 11, 2020, the Ministry of Health in the Republic of Cuba diligently created and...
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The Impact of Daycare Closures Owing to COVID-19 on Parental Stress: The Case of Japan
The purpose of this study is to quantify the effect of the closure of daycare facilities during the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019...
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Loo** for (Self)Care—Personal Digital Health Technology and Algorithmic Systems
In this chapter, we analyse the practices and experiences of people with diabetes who develop, use and share open-source, non-regulated “recipes” for...
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Improving Health in the Caribbean Region: Challenges and Opportunities
This chapter provides an extensive evaluation of the health status in the Caribbean region prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. It meticulously examines...
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Analysing Diet Composition and Food Insecurity by Socio-Economic Status in Secondary African Cities
This chapter takes as its starting point theorizing around nutrition and food system transitions thought to be increasingly occurring in urban...
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Framing Poverty in Nigerian Online Media Reports on the Inaugural Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are so called because they affect the poor people in the low income tropical and subtropical regions of the world...
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The Disease Burden Morbidity Assessment in older adults and its association with mortality and other health outcomes
The objective of this study was to assess how disease burden caused by chronic conditions is related to mortality (predictive validity) and other...
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Osteosarcopenia and Fragility Fracture: A Community Perspective
Osteosarcopenia is a syndrome with co-existence of osteoporosis and sarcopenia. Osteoporosis is a disease in which the microarchitecture and quality...
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Sustenance and Its Consequences
This chapter explores the multiplicities and entanglements of health and disease at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo. Interpreting patterns of pathology for past...
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Features of Nigeria’s Healthcare System
This chapter highlights several features, more illustrative than exhaustive, of Nigeria’s healthcare system: a huge burden of diseases relative to...
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Cellular Senescence and Ageing
Cellular senescence has become a subject of great interest within the ageing research field over the last 60 years, from the first observation in...
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How Susceptible is the Black and Ethnic Minority (BAME)? An Analysis of COVID-19 Mortality Pattern in England
UK’s Office for National Statistics has recognized a greater risk of COVID-19 disease burden for minority ethnic groups but underlying socio-economic...
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Recruitment of African American and Non-Hispanic White Older Adults for Alzheimer Disease Research Via Traditional and Social Media: a Case Study
The increasing prevalence of Alzheimer disease (AD), higher risk among certain ethnoracial groups, and lack of effective therapies highlights the...
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Association Between Character Strengths and Caregiver Burden: Hope as a Mediator
Caregiver burden is the negative impact that caregivers perceive as a result of their caregiving tasks. According to the stress process model,...
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Clinical Ageing
Ageing is generally characterised by the declining ability to respond to stress, increasing homeostatic...
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Pattern and Correlates of Out-of-Pocket Payment Among Older People in Bangladesh
In low- and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, most older people neither receive pensions nor have public or private health insurance. In...
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Health Status and Disease Burden of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Adolescents at a Single Centre in Bielefeld
Unaccompanied asylum seeking adolescents (UAAs) are regarded as more vulnerable than other refugees, arriving on their own without family in a...