The impact of anaemia on functioning in older people in a rural population in South West Uganda

Mugisha, Joseph; Baisely, Kathy J.; Seeley, Janet; Kuper, Hannah

doi:10.1111/bjh.13018

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“…Recognizing such vulnerabilities, the Ugandan Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development (MGLSD) issued its 2009 comprehensive policy statement to promote quality of life for among aging persons, specifically adults 60 years and older,5. The policy calls for focused health studies on the elderly population; to date, studies have been predominantly focused on the burden of HIV/AIDS6–11, diabetes and stroke and their risk factors4,12–15, and health care seeking behavior16,17.…”

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Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda

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Background Uganda's ageing population (age 50 years and older) will nearly double from 2015 to 2050. HIV/AIDS, diabetes, stroke among other disease processes have been studied in the elderly population. However, the burden of disease from surgically-treatable conditions is unknown. Objectives To determine the proportion of adults above 50 years with unmet surgical need and deaths attributable to probable surgically-treatable conditions. Methods A cluster randomized sample representing the national population of Uganda was enumerated. The previously validated Surgeons Overseas assessment of surgical need instrument, a head-to-toe verbal interview, was used to determine any surgically-treatable conditions in two randomly-selected living household members. Deaths were detailed by heads of households. Weighted metrics are calculated taking sampling design into consideration and Taylor series linearization was used for sampling error estimation. Results The study enumerated 425 individuals above age 50 years. The prevalence proportion of unmet surgical need was 27.8% (95%CI, 22.1–34.3). This extrapolates to 694,722 (95%CI, 552,279–857,157) individuals living with one or more surgically treatable conditions. The North sub-region was observed to have the highest prevalence proportion. Nearly two out of five household deaths (37.9%) were attributed to probable surgically treatable causes. Conclusion There is disproportionately high need for surgical care among the ageing population of Uganda with approximately 700,000 consultations needed.

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Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda

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World Health Organization disability assessment schedule 2.0: An international systematic review

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The growing number of studies indicates increasing interest in the WHODAS 2.0 for assessing individual functioning and disability in different settings and individual health conditions. The WHODAS 2.0 shows strong correlations with several other measures of activity limitations; probably due to the fact that it shares the same disability latent variable with them. Implications for Rehabilitation WHODAS 2.0 seems to be a valid, reliable self-report instrument for the assessment of disability. The increasing interest in use of the WHODAS 2.0 extends to rehabilitation and life sciences rather than being limited to psychiatry. WHODAS 2.0 is suitable for assessing health status and disability in a variety of settings and populations. A critical issue for rehabilitation is that a single "minimal clinically important .difference" score for the WHODAS 2.0 has not yet been established.

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The impact of anaemia on functioning in older people in a rural population in South West Uganda

Cited by 2 publications

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Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda

Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda

World Health Organization disability assessment schedule 2.0: An international systematic review

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