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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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The Impact of Long-Term Care Insurance on Intergenerational Interaction Behavior Change in China
China’s population shows obvious characteristics of rapid aging and growing old before getting rich. There are about 40 million disabled and...
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Low-wage migrant workers during coronavirus disease 2019: a social determinants analysis
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic has had disproportionate effects on economically and socially marginalized people. We...
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Modeling the impact of control strategies on malaria and COVID-19 coinfection: insights and implications for integrated public health interventions
This work discusses the challenge posed by the simultaneous occurrence of malaria and COVID-19 coinfection on global health systems. We propose a...
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Challenges of Female Older Adults Caring for Their very old Parents in Rural Southeast Nigeria: A Qualitative Descriptive Inquiry
As a result of population aging, more family caregivers are maturing into older adult status alongside their parents who constitute the ‘very old.‘...
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Emerging Trends of Chronic Diseases and Their Care Among Older Persons Globally
The global aging population (aged 60 years and above) has been rising, and it is expected to reach 2.1 billion in 2050. Along with the aging...
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Gaps in Sexual and Reproductive Health in Young People
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is not merely about physical health, whether one is suffering from a certain medical condition, but it is also...
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Providing Care When There Is No Cure: How FemTech Can Help Destigmatize Autoimmune Diseases
Considering that over two-thirds of all autoimmune cases occur in people assigned female at birth, the majority of whom are diagnosed during...
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Ecological and social correlates of violent crime
Resilient communities often experience deprivation in multiple areas. Understanding how these areas relate to each other can help policymakers...
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Comparison of Simple-Summated Scoring and Toxicity Index Scoring of Symptom Bother in the NSABP B-30 Clinical Trial
BackgroundLevel of symptom burden for cancer patients can be summarized using simple-summated scoring of multiple patient-reported symptoms. The...
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Elderly Women During COVID 19
COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis of which elderly constituted a high-risk group for severe illness and mortality. Restricted access to...
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Geospatial variations in socioeconomic conditions and health outcomes in COVID-19 era: insights from South Africa (2020–2022)
South Africa also has the highest burden of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related comorbidities in Africa. We aimed to quantify the temporal...
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Urban Health Infrastructure: Governance Issues
Employment generation initiatives of the Indian government have attracted rural populace to urban centres who face challenges relating to healthy...
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Exploring Handgrip Strength as a Cross-cultural Correlate of Body Composition and Upper Body Strength in Older Adults from Costa Rica and Kansas
Sarcopenia and disability in older adults are often characterized by body composition measurements; however, the gold standard of body composition...
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Melanoma and Quality of Life
Melanoma is a skin cancer affecting mostly people of fair skinned ancestry. Treatment of melanoma at each stage of disease is very different, and...
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The Social Determinants of Health and Illness
Health professionals now realize that contemporary health problems have their roots in social conditions rather than being a function of biological...
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COVID-19 and All-Cause Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, and Age Across Five Periods of the Pandemic in the United States
Racial/ethnic and age disparities in COVID-19 and all-cause mortality during 2020 are well documented, but less is known about their evolution over...
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Introduction
This chapter briefly introduces the evolution of health aid, its forms, and its objectives. In consonance with the prevailing emphasis on combatting...