Browsing 2025 by Issue Date
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Gender Equality and Quality of Life Must Be Central to the Design and Delivery of Sanitation
(BMJ, 2025)Effective sanitation systems must safeguard not just physical health but also dignity, gender equality, and quality of life. Too often, these broader dimensions are overlooked in design and delivery. In this commentary, ... -
Conflict at Work and Incident Chronic Low Back Pain: a Retrospective Cohort of More than 101,000 Adults from Germany
(Springer, 2025)Purpose: Little is known about the relationship between conflict at work and incident chronic low back pain (CLBP). This retrospective cohort study analyzed the association between workplace conflict and the 5-year incidence ... -
Psychiatric Comorbidity and In-hospital Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for Physical Conditions in Germany
(ScienceDirect, 2025)Objective: To investigate the association between psychiatric comorbidity and in?hospital mortality in patients hospitalized for physical conditions in Germany. Methods: This retrospective study utilized hospital data ... -
Meeting the Who Physical Activity Guidelines and Health-related Quality of Life of Single Parents in Ghana
(Frontiers, 2025)Purpose: Improving physical activity (PA) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is critically important for achieving the health-related sustainable development goal (SDG?3). However, data on the association between ... -
Determinants of Limitations in Activities of Daily Living among Community-dwelling Persons Aged 80 Years and Older: Longitudinal National Evidence from the Health, Aging and Retirement in Thailand Study, 2015-2022
(Wiley Online Library, 2025)Aim: Few studies have longitudinally assessed the determinants of limitations in activities of daily living (LADL) among persons aged???80?years. This study estimated the determinants of LADL using four waves (2015, 2017, ... -
Behavioural Systems Mapping of Solid Waste Management in Kisumu, Kenya, to Understand the Role of Behaviour in a Health and Sustainability Problem
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2025)Poor solid waste management in Kisumu, Kenya, contributes to adverse health, social, and environmental outcomes as a result of open burning, illegal dumping, and reliance on landfills. Taking Kisumu as a case study, we use ... -
Socio-economic Determinants and Spatial Analysis of Access to Sanitation among Older Adults in Ghana
(Springer Nature, 2025)Access to sanitation is a fundamental human right essential for health and dignity, yet inadequate access remains a significant challenge globally�particularly for vulnerable populations like older adults. This study ... -
Behind Closed Doors: Homeboundness and Psychosocial Outcomes. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Middle-aged and Older Adults
(ScienceDirect, 2025)Objectives: To examine how homeboundness is associated with psychosocial outcomes—including life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and loneliness—among middle-aged and older adults. Methods: Longitudinal data ... -
Creative Aging: Unraveling the Psychosocial Benefits of Art among Germany's Oldest Old. Findings from the Nationally Representative Study "old Age in Germany (d80+)"
(International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2025)Objective: There is a dearth of studies examining the link between artistic activity and psychosocial outcomes exclusively among the oldest old. Therefore, this study investigates the association between artistic activity ... -
Translation and Validation of the German Version of the Pet-related Stress Scale
(2025)Pet related stress refers to the stress of living with a pet. The aim of this study was to translate and validate the German version of the Pet Related Stress Scale (PRSS G), and to establish reference values. Data were ... -
Validity and Reliability of the Sanitation-related Quality of Life Index (sanqol-5) in Six Countries
(Nature, 2025)Sustainable Development Goal�6.2 measures sanitation progress by toilet type. However, improving people�s subjective sanitation experiences�such as feeling safe, avoiding disgust, maintaining privacy, reducing shame, and ... -
Caregiving Dynamics and Labor Market Outcomes of Unorganized Caregivers of Older Adults in Ghana
(2025)Unorganized caregivers increasingly face significant challenges that impact their participation in the labor market, particularly in low and middle income countries. This paper explores the effects of both care intensity ... -
Willingness-to-pay and Costs for Novel Manual Emptying Services for Shared Onsite Sanitation Facilities in an Informal Settlement of Nairobi, Kenya
(London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2025)This study evaluates willingness-to-pay (WTP) and cost structures for innovative, group-based manual emptying services for onsite sanitation in low-income urban settlements. Combining household surveys with service provider ... -
How Informal Water Markets Serve the Urban Population: Dynamics of Invisible Hand in Nairobi’s Water Sector
(PLOS, 2025)Globally, attaining universal access to safe, affordable drinking water remains a major challenge. In two informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, this qualitative study investigates three modalities of informal water ... -
Barriers and Enablers for Group-based Manual Emptying Services for Onsite Sanitation Facilities in Nairobi, Kenya: a Qualitative Study
(Elsevier, 2025)Onsite sanitation, such as pit latrines, is essential to achieving universal access to safe sanitation, as outlined in Sustainable Development Goal?6.2. However, manual emptying for pit latrines in low?income areas is often ... -
Bodily Pain Severity and Emotional Pain Experience in Old Age: Analyses of Potential Mediators from Representative Ghana Aging Survey
(ScienceDirect, 2025)Data on the association between pain and emotional health outcomes in old age primarily come from high-income samples. This study examines the cross-sectional association of bodily pain with emotional pain in a representative ... -
Lived Experiences of Nonmedical Use of Tramadol among Urban Slum-dwelling Youth in Ghana: a Qualitative Study
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2025)The world is witnessing a pharmaceutical opioid crisis, and in Africa�s version, the nonmedical use of Tramadol is prevalent in vulnerable populations. However, data on the factors promoting nonmedical use of Tramadol in ... -
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depressive Symptoms and Major Depressive Disorder among the Oldest-old in India
(WILEY, 2025)The study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of major depressive disorder (MDD) and depressive symptoms among individuals aged 80 and older in India, as there is limited research on this demographic in ... -
Factors Associated with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Amongst the Oldest Old: Findings Based on the Nationally Representative "old Age in Germany (d80+)" Study Study
(Springer, 2025)Factors associated with mild cognitive impairment and dementia amongst the oldest old: findings based on the nationally representative �old age in Germany (D80+)� study," addresses a knowledge gap regarding factors associated ... -
Determinants of Health-care Utilization among Community-dwelling Persons 45 Years and Older: National Longitudinal Data from the 2015-2022 Health, Aging, and Retirement in Thailand Research Retirement in Thailand Research
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2025)This study aimed to investigate the determinants of healthcare utilization among individuals 45 years and older based on longitudinal and nationally representative data on community residents from 2015 to�2022 in Thailand. ...
