2025: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
