Socioeconomic position and later life prevalence of hypertension, diabetes and visual impairment in Nakuru, Kenya

George Ploubidis (), Wanjiku Mathenge, Bianca Stavola, Emily Grundy, Allen Foster and Hannah Kuper

International Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 58, issue 1, 133-141

Abstract: The pattern of associations between education, material resources and the three health outcomes varied, suggesting that in Kenya, unlike the observed pattern of inequalities in high income countries, different dimensions of SEP provide different aspects of protection as well as risk. Smoking and alcohol use did not appear to mediate the observed associations, in contrast with countries past the epidemiologic transition. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2013

Keywords: Socioeconomic position; Education; Material resources; Hypertension; Diabetes; Kenya; Health inequalities; Visual impairment; Alcohol; Smoking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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