Sociodemographic and socioeconomic patterns of chronic non-communicable disease among the older adult population in Ghana

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Minicuci, Nadia ^a,b   Biritwum, Richard B ^b   Mensah, George ^b   Yawson, Alfred E ^b   Naidoo, Nirmala ^c   Chatterji, Somnath ^c   Kowal, Paul ^c,d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Ghana; Health behavior; Non communicable disease; Sage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SAGE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

AGING; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; SAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904382710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.21292     Document Type: Article

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