Social conditions and disability related to the mortality of older people in rural south africa

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1531-1541

  Gómez Olivé, F Xavier ^a,b   Thorogood, Margaret ^a,b,c   Bocquier, Philippe ^a,d   Mee, Paul ^a,b,e   Kahn, Kathleen ^a,b,e   Berkman, Lisa ^f,g   Tollman, Stephen ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Disability; Hiv; Mortality; Quality of life; South africa

Indexed keywords

AGING; DISABILITY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL CHANGE; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

SOUTH AFRICA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84913590230     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu093     Document Type: Article

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