An investigation of factors associated with the health and well-being of HIV-infected or HIV-affected older people in rural South Africa

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Nyirenda, Makandwe ^a,b   Chatterji, Somnath ^c   Falkingham, Jane ^b   Mutevedzi, Portia ^a   Hosegood, Victoria ^a,b   Evandrou, Maria ^b   Kowal, Paul ^c   Newell, Marie Louise ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Functional ability; Health status; Older people; Quality of life; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABILITY; ECONOMICS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84862206475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-259     Document Type: Article

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