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Healthcare seeking behaviour during illness among older adults in Ghana: does food security status matter?

BACKGROUND: Ghana’s growing older adult population raises critical questions regarding healthcare for these older adults. At the same time, food insecurity is high among older adults in Ghana. This underscores the need to investigate the issues of food security and healthcare seeking behaviour among...

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Autores principales:	Braimah, Joseph Asumah, Agyemang-Duah, Williams, Amoak, Daniel, Sano, Yujiro, Antabe, Roger, Dassah, Ebenezer
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2023
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10214562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37231374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-04023-9

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