Open AccessPrevalence of anemia among elderly persons residing in old age homes in national capital territory, Delhi, India
Author(s) -
Abhishek Pathania,
Partha Haldar,
Shashi Kant,
Sanjeev Kumar Gupta,
Chandrakant S Pandav,
Damodar Bachani
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_412_18
Subject(s) - medicine , anemia , confidence interval , odds ratio , logistic regression , hemoglobin , pediatrics , cross sectional study , socioeconomic status , demography , population , environmental health , pathology , sociology
Anemia is a common morbidity in elderly persons (aged 60 years or above). In India, in recent years, the number of old age homes (OAHs) and the residents living in them has increased significantly.