Guest Editorial: The INDEPTH WHO-SAGE multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being among people aged 50 years and over in eight countries in Africa and Asia

Abstract

This supplement to Global Health Action presents the first results from the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE multicentre study, comprising background information, site-specific results (2-9) and an overall multicentre analysis. Reporting on one of the first cross-national studies of ageing in Africa and Asia, this supplement might be termed historic, especially when coupled with the demographic circumstances of population ageing, and the simultaneous public release of the microdata from the eight sites. According to a UN projection, the world is only a few years away from a historic watershed - when for the first time in human history those aged 65 and over will outnumber those under age 5.

(Published: 27 September 2010)

Citation: Global Health Action Supplement 2, 2010. DOI: 10.3402/gha.v3i0.5480