Growing older in Africa and Asia: Multicentre study on ageing, health and well-being. Global health Action journal, supplement 2

Selection of articles looking at the status of the elderly in Asia and Africa, resulting from the collaboration of the International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE).

Article titles include:

• Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration, looking at South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Viet Nam, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India
• Assessing health and well-being among older people in rural South Africa
• Health status and quality of life among older adults in rural Tanzania
• The health and well-being of older people in Nairobi’s slums
  
• Self-reported health and functional limitations among older people in the Kassena-Nankana District, Ghana 
• Patterns of health status and quality of life among older people in rural Viet Nam
  
• Socio-demographic differentials of adult health indicators in Matlab, Bangladesh: self-rated health, health state, quality of life and disability leve
• Health and quality of life among older rural people in Purworejo District, Indonesia
  
• Social gradients in self-reported health and well-being among adults aged 50 and over in Pune District, India
  
• Health inequalities among older men and women in Africa and Asia: evidence from eight Health and Demographic Surveillance System sites in the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE study