Paul Kowal

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What would you want included in a national health survey in your country?

If you had the opportunity to run a large household health survey in your country, what would be included and why? Just remember that interviews longer than 1 or 1.5 hours are a challenge for...

01 January 2019 5,509 5 View

About how much do you pay for urine Na, K, creatinine as part of your studies?

We are collecting urine over a 24 hour period in research respondents, and are getting quotes from labs to run n=1000 urine aliquot samples for sodium, potassium and creatinine. About how much...

10 October 2017 7,048 1 View

Have any national or sub-national level ageing and health studies been conducted in Lao PDR, Malaysia and the Philippines in the last 10 years?

I am trying to locate surveys/data sets that provide information about ageing and health in a number of countries in the Asian region - including, for example, the 2014 Myanmar Ageing Study, 2011...

01 January 2017 8,451 9 View

What local and global social innovations are keeping adults healthier for longer?

Social innovation can be defined generally as effective practical responses to a variety of major social challenges - in this case, demographic ageing and the health of older adults. This may come...

08 August 2016 8,752 1 View

Has a comparative analysis of social capital vs cohesion vs networks & impacts on health care utilization been published anywhere?

Could someone please point me to a comparative analysis of social capital vs cohesion vs networks & impacts on health care utilization? Measures of social capital, social cohesion and social...

07 July 2016 3,060 4 View

Could someone please point me to a comparative analysis of social capital vs cohesion vs networks & impacts on health/health care utilization?

Measures of social capital, social cohesion and social networks are many and varied: is the differentiation mainly in the perspective of the analyst (i.e. coming from health economics vs public...

08 August 2015 854 0 View

Does sleep quantity and quality impact cognition in older adults in lower and middle income countries?

Some answers here: http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2014/3/sleep-quality-and-duration-improve-cognition-aging-populations "This study (SAGE) is hugely powerful and so different from...

06 June 2014 7,018 1 View

Are the results of this survey available for analysis?

Dear Mirjana, I am keen to access more information about your study, including the data. Would this be possible, please? This would be used so that we can include Serbia in a report on health...

01 January 1970 8,342 2 View

What are your SAGE-related questions?

We welcome MPH students in Sweden and outside Sweden using SAGE, SAGE-INDEPTH, SAGE-HIV WOPS, or any data sets to engage on this project - add yourself as a contributor, and contribute to the...

01 January 1970 7,107 3 View

What is "older" age in today's world?

Is the often used threshold of 60 years changing? And if so, is it the ongoing changes in life expectancy or social/economic/political issues that are driving the change? See also: Definition of...

01 January 1970 9,022 16 View

What is the validity of measuring blood pressure over time using a wrist-worn device?

The relationship between a wrist-worn automated device and a gold standard sphygmomanometer has been largely established, but what about using one to track individuals or populations over time?...

01 January 1970 5,320 12 View