Stress Due to Inflation and Its Association with Anxiety and Depression Among Working-Age Adults in the United States.

Inflation generates stress, which may lead to high rates of anxiety and depression. Given the recent surge and subsequent decline in the inflation rate in the United States, the prevalence of stress due to inflation may vary, as well as its relationship with anxiety and depression. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of stress due to inflation and its association with anxiety and depression over time among working-age adults in the United States.

Association of Marijuana Use With Psychological Distress Among Adults in United States.

Purpose: Determine the association of marijuana use with serious psychological distress (SPD) among adults aged 18 years or older using a large, nationally representative sample of US households.

Design: Cross-sectional analysis.

Setting: Data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2021.

Did high frequency phone surveys during the COVID-19 pandemic include disability questions? An assessment of COVID-19 surveys from March 2020 to December 2022.

Objectives: In the midst of the pandemic, face-to-face data collection for national censuses and surveys was suspended due to limitations on mobility and social distancing, limiting the collection of already scarce disability data. Responses to these constraints were met with a surge of high-frequency phone surveys (HFPSs) that aimed to provide timely data for understanding the socioeconomic impacts of and responses to the pandemic. This paper provides an assessment of HFPS datasets and their inclusion of disability questions to evaluate the visibility of persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stress Due to Inflation: Changes over Time, Correlates, and Coping Strategies among Working-Age Adults in the United States.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual US inflation rate increased from 1.2% in July 2020 to 8% in July 2022. It has since declined to 3.

Differences between persons with and without disability in HIV prevalence, testing, treatment, and care cascade in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study using population-based data.

Background: Persons with disability may have a higher HIV prevalence and be less likely than persons without disability to know their HIV-positive status, access antiretroviral therapy (ART), and suppress their HIV viral load (HIV care cascade). However, studies examining differences between persons with and without disability in HIV prevalence and the HIV care cascade are lacking. Using the Tanzania HIV Impact Survey (THIS) data collected between October 2016 and August 2017, we assessed differences in HIV prevalence and progress towards achieving the 2020 HIV care cascade target between persons with and without disability.

Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures Associated with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability in China.

The objective of this study is to estimate the extra costs of living associated with chronic health conditions and disabilities in China. Leveraging the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study involving 13,530 respondents aged 50 and over, we apply both an ordinary least squares linear regression model and a logistic model to analyze the correlation between medical out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPEs) and chronic health conditions, as well as disabilities measured by Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) limitations. This paper bridges the gap in the literature on OOPEs and their association with disabilities and chronic health conditions, respectively.

What cut-off(s) to use with the Washington Group short set of questions?

The Washington Group short set (WG-SS) questions are increasingly integrated into national household surveys, censuses, and international survey programs. They enable the monitoring of disability rights and the production of internationally comparable statistics. Disability statistics on prevalence and inequalities can be estimated using different cut-offs on the degree of functional difficulties based on the WG-SS.

Association of multimorbidity with the use of health information technology.

Objective: To examine the association of multimorbidity with health information technology use among adults in the USA.

Methods: We used cross-sectional study design and data from the Health Information National Trends Survey 5 Cycle 4. Health information technology use was measured with ten variables comprising access, recent use, and healthcare management.

Whole Health in Parts: Omissions from National Data Sets.

The Whole Health model is a holistic approach to facilitate whole health practices by addressing (1) the physical, mental, and social health of individuals and (2) associated support systems. Several national organizations such as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) movement and, the U.S.

Awareness and access to mass media sources of information about modern family planning methods among women with disabilities in Nigeria: An analysis of 2018 demographic and health survey.

Background: Family planning is the foundation of sexual and reproductive health, and necessary for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, the needs of women with disabilities and their access to these services have been neglected for decades, especially in Low and Middle-income Countries. To improve utilization of these services among women with disabilities, they have to be aware and informed about the services.

Midlife Work Limitations are Associated with Lower Odds of Survival and Healthy Aging.

Objectives: Health conditions that limit work are associated with myriad socioeconomic disadvantages and around half of Americans could face a work limitation at some point in their working career. Our study examines the relationship between midlife work limitations and two aging outcomes: longevity and healthy aging.

Methods: Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and restricted mortality data, multivariate logistic regressions estimate the odds of desirable aging outcomes around age 65 for individuals with various midlife work limitation histories in samples of around 2,000 individuals.

Rising Income Inequality Through a Disability Lens: Trends in the United States 1981-2018.

Objectives: In a context of rising income inequality and policies to improve rights and inclusion for persons with disabilities, this paper examines income inequality trends by household work limitation status in the United States from 1981-2018.

Methods: Data comes from the March Supplement of the Current Population Survey using the work limitation disability measure to estimate decomposable Generalized Entropy measures of income inequality, and progressivity of government transfers and disability payments.

Results: Over the 1981-2018 period, inequality within the group of households with work limitations has been around 30 percent higher than inequality within the group of households without work limitations.

Are responses to the pandemic inclusive? A rapid virtual audit of COVID-19 press briefings in LMICs.

Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic may leave many people behind through a variety of exclusion processes as basic information about the virus and its spread is shared with the public. We conduct a rapid virtual audit of pandemic related press briefings and press conferences issued by governments and international organizations in order to assess if responses have been inclusive to the hearing-impaired communities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We analyze COVID-19 press conferences and press briefings issued during Feb-May 2020, for over 123 LMICs and for international organizations (e.

Disability and aging: From successful aging to wellbeing through the capability and human development lens.

This commentary explores the use of the capability approach and one of its recent applications, the human development model of disability, health and wellbeing, as a lens that can guide aging-related research as well as policy and practice in ways that are inclusive of older persons who have health conditions and impairments. As an alternative to biomedical theories of aging, the capability and human development lens includes human diversity and agency at its core while also reconsidering success to be the practical opportunities that older people value. The practical opportunities that older people value, including older people with disabilities, are what research, policy and practice should aim to expand.

Wellbeing at older ages: Towards an inclusive and multidimensional measure.

Background: With population aging, there is a growing need to measure and monitor the wellbeing of older people, including older people with disabilities.

Objective: To estimate the extent of wellbeing for individuals age 60+ in the U.S.

The dynamic relationships between economic status and health measures among working-age adults in the United States.

We examine the dynamic relationships between economic status and health measures using data from 8 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2013. Health measures are self-rated health (SRH) and functional limitations; economic status measures are labor income (earnings), family income, and net wealth. We use 3 different types of models: (a) ordinary least squares regression, (b) first-difference, and (c) system-generalized method of moment (GMM).

Dynamics in Health and Employment: Evidence from Indonesia.

This paper examines the consequences of disability, identifying for the first time, the separate impacts of onsets and recoveries from disability on both employment status and hours worked using panel data from Indonesia. We find that changes in physical functioning have no affect hours worked among the employed. However, we find that onsets of physical limitations lead to an increase in the probability of leaving employment, while recoveries increase the probability of returning to work.

Heterogeneous Relationships between Labor Income and Health by Race/Ethnicity.

Objective: To examine the race-stratified relationships between labor income and health among working-age adults in the United States.

Data Sources: Data from eight waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 through 2013 were used for this study.

Study Design: The study utilized a retrospective observational longitudinal design with repeated measures of labor income and health measures.

Extra costs of living with a disability: A review and agenda for research.

Background: There has been a growing interest in disability and poverty on the international research and policy stages. Poverty assessments for persons with disabilities may be affected by the experience of extra costs associated with a disability.

Objective: This article provides a systematized review of the global literature on the direct costs associated with living with a disability at the individual or household level.

The Economic Lives of People with Disabilities in Vietnam.

Through a series of focus group discussions conducted in northern and central Vietnam, this study gives voice to the lived economic experience of families with disabilities and how they manage the economic challenges associated with disability. The dynamic of low and unstable income combined with on-going health care and other disability-related costs gives rise to a range of coping mechanisms (borrowing, reducing and foregoing expenditures, drawing upon savings and substituting labour) that helps to maintain living standards in the short-run yet threatens the longer-term welfare of both the individual with disability and their household. Current social protection programs were reported as not accessible to all and while addressing some immediate economic costs of disability, do not successfully meet current needs nor accommodate wider barriers to availing benefits.