Pensions, consumption and health
Evidence from rural South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15360496 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Lloyd-Sherlock (0000-0002-1367-0703, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Sutapa Agrawal (0000-0001-8088-2143, Public Health Foundation of India), Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé (0000-0002-4876-0848, Harvard University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1577-1577 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMC Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458 |
| Publisher | BioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-020-09666-6 |
| PMID | 33081729 |
| OpenAlex | W3094213222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
The paper does not show significant associations between pension receipt and the selected risk factors. However, the context of prevalent obesity and high shares of household spending allocated to tobacco and alcohol call into question widely-made claims that pensions enhance healthy consumption among older people in low and middle-income countries
Biostatistics · Body mass index · Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Overweight · Pension · Population · Public health · Receipt · Scarcity · Underweight · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Gerontology
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |