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Intersection between individual, household, environmental and system level factors in defining risk and resilience for children in Kenya's ASAL: A qualitative study.
PLoS One
January 2025
Institute for Human Development, Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
Introduction: Children growing up in arid and semi-arid regions of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face heightened risks, often resulting in poor developmental outcomes. In Kenya, the arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) exhibit the lowest health and developmental indicators among children. Despite these risks, some children grow up successfully and overcome the challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharacterizing the within-person variability of food insecurity in everyday life.
PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
Food insecurity (FI), the lack of access to adequate food, is linked with negative health and psychological outcomes. FI is typically measured retrospectively over the last year; although this measurement is useful to understand FI prevalence to inform broad policy, it leaves the experience of FI in everyday life poorly understood. Understanding how FI varies across shorter periods of time (days or weeks) can help inform FI prevention and/or intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDementia and Cognitive Impairment in an Urban Multiethnic Indigenous Community from Amazonas.
Dement Geriatr Cogn Dis Extra
December 2024
Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Introduction: Studies about dementia in Indigenous communities are still scarce worldwide, especially in low-middle-income countries, limiting timely intervention in minority groups. Our research aimed to bridge this gap by determining the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment no dementia (CIND), and the associated factors, in a multiethnic Indigenous community in Manaus, Brazil.
Methods: A cross-sectional observational study evaluated the cognitive and functional performances of 141 Indigenous individuals (aged 50 and above).
Socioeconomic disparities in mortality from indoor air pollution: A multi-country study.
PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Family and Community Medicine and Medical Education, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Al-Madinah Al-Munawara, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Indoor air pollution is a major public health concern, contributing to approximately 2.9 million deaths and 81.1 million disability-adjusted life years lost annually.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Care Utilization and Costs for Older Adults Aging Into Medicare After the Affordable Care Act.
JAMA Health Forum
January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Importance: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded Medicaid and Marketplace insurance to nonelderly adults in 2014, but whether these policies improved outcomes later in life is unknown.
Objective: To examine whether exposure to ACA expansions during middle age (50-64 years) was associated with changes in health, utilization, and spending after these adults entered Medicare at 65 years of age.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This serial analysis of the Health and Retirement Study cohort linked to Medicare enrollment and claims data from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2018.
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