Impact of socioeconomic status and medical conditions on health and healthcare utilization among aging Ghanaians
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Impact of socioeconomic status and medical conditions on health and healthcare utilization among aging Ghanaians
BACKGROUND This study attempts to examine the impact of socioeconomic and medical conditions in health and healthcare utilization among older adults in Ghana. Five separate models with varying input variables were estimated for each response variable. METHODS Data (Wave 1 data) were drawn from the World Health Organization Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) conducted during 2007-2008 and i...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1603-y