From the search, six core themes were generated: neglect of aged care;aged care for the younger generation;aged living arrangements;government neglect;preparedness;and care of the aged in Ghana. Conclusion: This review offered significant insight into care for the aged in their homes. The ...
Our first measure of EPOV (EPOV1) is a commonly used method, regarding EPOV as the standard that the proportion of energy expenditure in income exceeds a certain threshold. The most widely used measure proposed by Boardman (1991) in the book “Fuel Poverty: From Cold Homes to Affordable ...
In both sites, community health workers visited the homes of all selected children and invited the children to participate in the study. Caregivers were given an ap- pointment card for enrollment of the selected child at a designated fieldwork site (Tabitha Clinic for Kibera and Lwak Mission ...
First, stratified random selection is used to choose enumeration areas from national census regions (strata), and then homes are chosen at random for survey administration within these areas. The study utilized aggregate data from the most recent DHS, which was carried out in 26 sub-Saharan ...
We started our analysis from age 5 years because children enter school at or around this age, and their nutrition, physical activity, and health are influenced by food and environment at their homes, schools, and communities. Statistical analysis We used a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate ...
In 2009, the Tobacco Hazards Prevention Act (Taiwan) was amended to more effectively restrict smoking in indoor public places and workplaces in Taiwan. However, the lack of prohibitions for smoking in private homes may place family members at increased r
It examines how conventional (i.e., access to money for children—conceived as experience of poverty—, family support, and experience of social isolation) and contemporary (i.e., health literacy) factors shape the health-related well-being of children in single-parent homes in Ghana in the ...
Studies in school-aged children in other African contexts, including in Ethiopia, Uganda, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanzania, have reported Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 9130 8 of 12 dietary diversity scores that were relatively comparable with scores in our ...