Purpose Recent public health policy emphasizes the achievement of healthy aging as average life expectancy increases worldwide. Evidence for from low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is limited. The purpose this paper to assess prospects its associated factors in Indian context. Design/methodology/approach study was based on a national-level panel survey, Human Development Survey (IHDS) cond...

This study examines the impact of natural resource extraction, population, affluence, and trade openness on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions energy consumption in 17 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from 1971 to 2019, using stochastic impacts technology (STIRPAT) model. The Westerlund Kao cointegration tests were employed determine long-run relationships among variables. Pooled mean group auto...

BACKGROUND In Western countries, tobacco use is most prevalent among adolescents in lower socioeconomic groups. The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and tobacco use among adolescents in developing countries is unexplored. Using multiple SES measures, we investigated this association among adolescents in Ghana. METHOD A school-based survey of a representative sample of 13-18-year...

BACKGROUND Economic inequality has been hypothesized to be a health determinant, independent of poverty and household income. The goal of this study was to explore the contextual influences of income inequality on alcohol use and frequency of drunkenness in adolescents. METHODS The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study surveyed 162 305 adolescents (ages 11, 13 and 15 years) in 34 cou...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationships between education, social conditions, and mortality. DESIGN An ecological study relating several measures of mortality to local rates of educational attainment at age 15/16 years and scores on the Department of the Environment's index of local conditions. SETTING England and its 107 local education authority areas in 1991. MAIN RESULTS Educ...