Saeed Bashiru I I, Abdul-Aziz A R, Nguah Samuel Blay, Zhao Xicang
Jiangsu University.
Glob J Health Sci. 2013 Jun 16;5(5):115-23. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v5n5p115.
Socio-economic predictors of chronic diseases in Ghana are not well understood and their influence has been relatively overlooked. This paper seeks to examine the influence of socio-economic predictors of chronic diseases in Ghanaians three different age groups. The data employed in the study were drawn from Global Ageing and Adult Health survey conducted in Ghana by SAGE and was based on the design for the World Health Survey. The survey was conducted in 2007 and collected data on socio-economic characteristics and other variables of the individuals interviewed. The overall results suggest that chronic diseases in relatively older Ghanaians reflects social and economic exposures with the differentials observed only partially explained by current social and economic conditions. Our results were by and large very much expected from the current medical knowledge available.
加纳慢性病的社会经济预测因素尚未得到充分理解,其影响也相对被忽视。本文旨在研究慢性病的社会经济预测因素对加纳三个不同年龄组人群的影响。该研究使用的数据来自于由全球老龄化和成人健康研究(SAGE)在加纳开展的调查,其基于世界卫生调查的设计。该调查于2007年进行,收集了受访者的社会经济特征及其他变量的数据。总体结果表明,相对年长的加纳人患慢性病反映了社会和经济暴露情况,观察到的差异仅部分由当前的社会和经济状况所解释。从现有的医学知识来看,我们的结果大体上是在意料之中的。