Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are now prevalent in many low- and middle-income countries and confer a heightened risk of disability. It is unclear how public health programs can identify the older adults at highest risk of disability related to NCDs within diverse developing country populations. We studied nationally representative survey data from 7,150 Indian adults older than 50 ye...

BACKGROUND In 2010 more than 7.7 million children died before their fifth birthday. Over 98% of these deaths occurred in developing countries, and recent estimates have attributed hundreds of thousands of these deaths to suboptimal breastfeeding. METHODS This study estimated prevalence of suboptimal breastfeeding for 137 developing countries from 1990 to 2010. These estimates were compared ag...

The aim of this study was to assess the economic difference in nutrition of under-five children. Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey data 2011 were used for this study. In this study, quintiles were calculated on the basis of asset and wealth score by use of principal component analysis. To understand the nutrition status and health inequality concentration index was also calculated. The ratio...

BACKGROUND Rest deprivation (rest/napping/sleep 6 or less hours daily) is a clinically recognised risk factor for poor health, but its epidemiology is little studied. This study reports prevalence's and social correlates of rest deprivation in Ghana. METHODS Data are from the 2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey. Women ages 15-49 were recruited in a national sampling design. Respondents w...

The DHS Wealth Index originally was constructed from existing data on household assets, services, and amenities in order to tabulate health, population, nutrition, education, and other indicators according to economic status. The Wealth Index has proved to be one of the most useful background characteristics available from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data. It is now standard in DHS ...

Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with depressive disorder among Peruvian older adults over 60 years of age.Materials methods: An observational, analytical cross-sectional study was conducted based on a secondary analysis 2019 Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (ENDES - National Demographic Family Health Survey),administered at national level by Instituto Nacio...

BACKGROUND Similar to other developing countries, Pakistan is going through a rapid nutrition transition where shift from underweight to overweight and obesity is occurring. In this paper, we report on the relationship of household socioeconomic position (SEP), community SEP and urbanicity with under- and over-weight categories of BMI among Pakistani women. METHODS We analyzed data on 4,767 w...

BACKGROUND Although the Republic of Vanuatu has improved maternal indicators, more needs to be done to improve equity among the poorest in the use of reproductive health services to expedite the progress towards the Millennium Development Goal 5(MDG 5) target. While large developing country studies provide evidence of a rich-poor gap in reproductive health services utilization, not much is writ...

Research on micro-level assessment of the changes of socio-economic status following health interventions is very scarce. The use of household asset data to determine wealth indices is a common procedure for estimating socio-economic position in resource poor settings. In such settings information about income is usually lacking, and the collection of individual consumption or expenditure data ...

BACKGROUND Inadequate water and sanitation during childbirth are likely to lead to poor maternal and newborn outcomes. This paper uses existing data sources to assess the water and sanitation (WATSAN) environment surrounding births in Tanzania in order to interrogate whether such estimates could be useful for guiding research, policy and monitoring initiatives. METHODS We used the most recent...