The present study investigates the state of health of the older adults in India from a socioeconomic and cultural … round of the National Sample Survey in 2004. The state of physical health is defined in terms of the count of chronic … health and the socioeconomic and cultural factors. The findings based on the Poisson regression models affirm the association …

This work attempts to develop a conceptual framework to model health of older adults (OA) in India in association with … Sample Survey (NSS) (2004) has been used for the purpose. Diseases and disabilities are two aspects of the health of OAs … model these aspects of health. The association between these two aspects is not found to be strong in all the four …

The issue of whether faith-inspired providers are able to reach the poor depends in part on the cost of the health … assess to what extent the cost of healthcare is a major reason for not being satisfied with health services and whether …

satisfaction of patients with FII-health services in Africa today. Second, we present new evidence from household surveys in six … predict a range of health-related behaviors and outcomes. What can be said about patient satisfaction with faith …Patient service satisfaction has become a critical concept, utilized both in the assessment of quality of care and to …

provided by faith-inspired health care providers in Ghana: how satisfied are patients with the services received?; and why are … patients choosing faith-inspired providers for care? The quantitative survey data suggests that the level of satisfaction with … non-religious facilities. The qualitative data suggests that the reasons that lead patients to choose faith …

, political decentralization affects citizen’s satisfaction with education and health delivery in different ways. The influence of … perception of the state of the education system and of health services, by using the 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 waves of the … effect of fiscal decentralization on the perception of the state of the health and education system is unambiguously positive …

The public health literature focusing on the detrimental effects of social isolation has shown that the quantity of … social connections is positively correlated with individual health. Drawing on pooled cross-sectional data, we test this … is their quality – as measured by subjective satisfaction derived from relationships with friends – that works as the …

This is an effort at explaining the reasons and rationale behind the rising mortality rate (CDR) in the South Indian … health care and Rajiv Aryogyasri (RAS), a health insurance scheme to cover the catastrophic health expenditure of BPL …

: Longitudinal data was drawn from the Health and Retirement Survey and the RAND-HRS data base for more than 6,000 individuals aged … of six measures including: self-rated health; self-rated memory; activities of daily living; instrumental activities of … work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …

This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …