Prevalence of Older Adult Disability and Primary Health Care Responsiveness in Low-Income Communities
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Prevalence of Mathematic Disability in Primary Schools
Objectives: One of the issues that have consistently been the concern for the health affair specialists and cure and massive social governors in health fields is the rate of disorders prevalence, diseases and the related subjects to epidemiology. Purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of mathematic disability amongst primary schools of Karaj. Methods: Totally 432 students were ...
متن کاملAchieving Universal Health Coverage by Focusing on Primary Care in Japan: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
When the Japanese government adopted Western medicine in the late nineteenth century, it left intact the infrastructure of primary care by giving licenses to the existing practitioners and by initially setting the hurdle for entry into medical school low. Public financing of hospitals was kept minimal so that almost all of their revenue came from patient charges. When social health insurance (S...
متن کاملInequalities in Health Status from EQ-5D Findings: A Cross-Sectional Study in Low-Income Communities of Bangladesh
Background Measuring health status by using standardized and validated instrument has become a growing concern over the past few decades throughout the developed and developing countries. The aim of the study was to investigate the overall self-reported health status along with potential inequalities by using EuroQol 5 dimensions (EQ-5D) instrument among low-income people of Bangladesh. Metho...
متن کاملHealth Care Use Patterns for Diarrhea in Children in Low-Income Periurban Communities of Karachi, Pakistan
Diarrhea causes 16% of all child deaths in Pakistan. We assessed patterns of healthcare use among caretakers of a randomly selected sample of 959 children ages 0-59 months in low-income periurban settlements of Karachi through a cross-sectional survey. A diarrheal episode was reported to have occurred in the previous 2 weeks among 298 (31.1%) children. Overall, 280 (80.3%) children sought care....
متن کاملDisability, Work, and Income Maintenance: Prevalence of Disability, 1966
MORE THAK one-sixth of the civilian noninstitutional population of working age were limited in their ability to work because of a chronic health condition or impairment in 1966. A major proportion of the waste of manpower through involuntary nonparticipation in the labor force, unemployment, and underemployment may be attributed to disability. Public income-support programs provided income for ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Life
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2075-1729
DOI: 10.3390/life10080133