Factors associated with self-reported ill health among older Ugandans: A cross sectional study
Identifieur interne : 002151 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 002150; suivant : 002152Factors associated with self-reported ill health among older Ugandans: A cross sectional study
Auteurs : Stephen Ojiambo Wandera ; Valerie Golaz ; Betty Kwagala ; James NtoziSource :
- Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics [ 0167-4943 ] ; 2015.
Abstract
We estimate the prevalence of self-reported ill health among older people in Uganda. Cross sectional national survey data of 2382 older persons is used. Most (62%) older Ugandans reported ill health. The women, oldest old, household heads, Catholics reported poorer health. Those with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and disability reported poor health.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2015.05.006
PubMed: 26043957
PubMed Central: 4534344
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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Factors associated with self-reported ill health among older Ugandans: A cross sectional study</title><author><name sortKey="Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo" sort="Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo" uniqKey="Wandera S" first="Stephen Ojiambo" last="Wandera">Stephen Ojiambo Wandera</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0010">Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA Cohort 2) Fellow, Program Based at the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Golaz, Valerie" sort="Golaz, Valerie" uniqKey="Golaz V" first="Valerie" last="Golaz">Valerie Golaz</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Institut National D’etudes Demographiques (INED), 133 Boulevard Davout, Paris, France</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kwagala, Betty" sort="Kwagala, Betty" uniqKey="Kwagala B" first="Betty" last="Kwagala">Betty Kwagala</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ntozi, James" sort="Ntozi, James" uniqKey="Ntozi J" first="James" last="Ntozi">James Ntozi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></titleStmt><publicationStmt><idno type="wicri:source">PMC</idno><idno type="pmid">26043957</idno><idno type="pmc">4534344</idno><idno type="url">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4534344</idno><idno type="RBID">PMC:4534344</idno><idno type="doi">10.1016/j.archger.2015.05.006</idno><date when="2015">2015</date><idno type="wicri:Area/Pmc/Corpus">002151</idno><idno type="wicri:explorRef" wicri:stream="Pmc" wicri:step="Corpus" wicri:corpus="PMC">002151</idno></publicationStmt><sourceDesc><biblStruct><analytic><title xml:lang="en" level="a" type="main">Factors associated with self-reported ill health among older Ugandans: A cross sectional study</title><author><name sortKey="Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo" sort="Wandera, Stephen Ojiambo" uniqKey="Wandera S" first="Stephen Ojiambo" last="Wandera">Stephen Ojiambo Wandera</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0010">Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA Cohort 2) Fellow, Program Based at the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Golaz, Valerie" sort="Golaz, Valerie" uniqKey="Golaz V" first="Valerie" last="Golaz">Valerie Golaz</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0015">Institut National D’etudes Demographiques (INED), 133 Boulevard Davout, Paris, France</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kwagala, Betty" sort="Kwagala, Betty" uniqKey="Kwagala B" first="Betty" last="Kwagala">Betty Kwagala</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda</nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ntozi, James" sort="Ntozi, James" uniqKey="Ntozi J" first="James" last="Ntozi">James Ntozi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff0005">Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics</title><idno type="ISSN">0167-4943</idno><idno type="eISSN">1872-6976</idno><imprint><date when="2015">2015</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><title>Highlights</title><p><list list-type="simple"><list-item id="lsti0005"><label>•</label><p>We estimate the prevalence of self-reported ill health among older people in Uganda.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0010"><label>•</label><p>Cross sectional national survey data of 2382 older persons is used.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0015"><label>•</label><p>Most (62%) older Ugandans reported ill health.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0020"><label>•</label><p>The women, oldest old, household heads, Catholics reported poorer health.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0025"><label>•</label><p>Those with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and disability reported poor health.</p></list-item></list></p></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Aboderin, I" uniqKey="Aboderin I">I. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arch Gerontol Geriatr</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Arch Gerontol Geriatr</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">0167-4943</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1872-6976</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Elsevier Biomedical Press</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">26043957</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4534344</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">S0167-4943(15)00084-9</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1016/j.archger.2015.05.006</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Factors associated with self-reported ill health among older Ugandans: A cross sectional study</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Wandera</surname><given-names>Stephen Ojiambo</given-names></name><email>swandera@gmail.com</email><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref><xref rid="aff0010" ref-type="aff">b</xref><xref rid="cor0005" ref-type="corresp">⁎</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Golaz</surname><given-names>Valerie</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0015" ref-type="aff">c</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kwagala</surname><given-names>Betty</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ntozi</surname><given-names>James</given-names></name><xref rid="aff0005" ref-type="aff">a</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff0005"><label>a</label>Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda</aff><aff id="aff0010"><label>b</label>Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA Cohort 2) Fellow, Program Based at the African Population and Health Research Centre (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya</aff><aff id="aff0015"><label>c</label>Institut National D’etudes Demographiques (INED), 133 Boulevard Davout, Paris, France</aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor0005"><label>⁎</label>Corresponding author at: Department of Population Studies, School of Statistics and Planning, College of Business and Management Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda. Tel.: +256 774976879. <email>swandera@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="pmc-release"><day>1</day><month>9</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><pmc-comment> PMC Release delay is 0 months and 0 days and was based on .</pmc-comment>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><season>Sep-Oct</season><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>61</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>231</fpage><lpage>239</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>13</day><month>3</month><year>2015</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>18</day><month>4</month><year>2015</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>19</day><month>5</month><year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2015 The Authors</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2015</copyright-year><license license-type="CC BY" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).</license-p></license></permissions><abstract abstract-type="author-highlights"><title>Highlights</title><p><list list-type="simple"><list-item id="lsti0005"><label>•</label><p>We estimate the prevalence of self-reported ill health among older people in Uganda.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0010"><label>•</label><p>Cross sectional national survey data of 2382 older persons is used.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0015"><label>•</label><p>Most (62%) older Ugandans reported ill health.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0020"><label>•</label><p>The women, oldest old, household heads, Catholics reported poorer health.</p></list-item><list-item id="lsti0025"><label>•</label><p>Those with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and disability reported poor health.</p></list-item></list></p></abstract><abstract><sec><title>Introduction</title><p>There is limited research on the prevalence and factors associated with self-reported ill health among older people in Uganda.</p></sec><sec><title>Objective</title><p>Therefore, the aim of this paper was to estimate the prevalence of self-reported ill health and to identify associated risk factors among older people (age 50+) in Uganda.</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and methods</title><p>We conducted secondary analysis of a cross sectional survey data from a weighted sample of 2382 older persons from the 2010 Uganda National Household survey. We used frequency distributions for descriptive statistics, chi-square tests (significance set at 95%) to identify initial associations and multivariable logistic regressions reporting odds ratios to examine observed associations with self-reported ill health.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Over half (62%) of the older people reported ill health in the 30 days preceding the survey. Self-reported ill health was positively associated with being a woman, being among the oldest old, living in the eastern region, being a household head, being Catholic, self-reported non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and being disabled.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Gender differentials exist in self-reported ill health among older persons in Uganda.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Sub-Saharan Africa</kwd><kwd>Uganda</kwd><kwd>Elderly</kwd><kwd>Health status</kwd><kwd>Self-rated health</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec sec-type="intro" id="sec0005"><label>1</label><title>Introduction</title><p>Population aging is a global concern in the World today. Two thirds of older people (age 60+) live in developing countries including sub-Saharan Africa (<xref rid="bib0275" ref-type="bibr">UNFPA & HAI, 2012</xref>). In Uganda, the population of persons age 60 and older increased from 1.1 million in 2002 to 1.3 million in 2010 (<xref rid="bib0260" ref-type="bibr">UBOS, 2010</xref>) and is expected to increase from 1.6 million in 2014 to 5.5 million by 2050 (<xref rid="bib0270" ref-type="bibr">UN, 2013</xref>). In Uganda, the retirement age of 60 years is used to define older persons (<xref rid="bib0155" ref-type="bibr">MoGLSD, 2009</xref>). In this paper however, we defined older persons as those aged 50 years and above, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the INDEPTH network data for African contexts (<xref rid="bib0075 bib0080 bib0130 bib0175 bib0295" ref-type="bibr">Gómez-Olivé, Thorogood, Clark, Kahn, & Tollman, 2013; Hirve, Juvekar, Lele, & Agarwal, 2010; Kyobutungi, Egondi, & Ezeh, 2010; Mwanyangala et al., 2010a; WHO, 2015</xref>).</p><p>One of the growing concerns related to population aging and health in SSA is the “vulnerability of older persons to poor health outcomes” (<xref rid="bib0005" ref-type="bibr">Aboderin, 2010</xref>) such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs), disabilities or functional limitations; and the lack of access to healthcare or age-related exclusion in access to healthcare (<xref rid="bib0005 bib0010 bib0265" ref-type="bibr">Aboderin, 2010; Aboderin & Ferreira, 2008; UN, 2002</xref>).</p><p>To address the health needs of older persons, international, regional, and national institutions enacted several policy frameworks. These include the 2002 Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging abbreviated as the MIPAA (<xref rid="bib0265" ref-type="bibr">UN, 2002</xref>), the African health strategy (<xref rid="bib0025" ref-type="bibr">AU, 2007</xref>) and in Uganda, the policy on older persons (<xref rid="bib0155" ref-type="bibr">MoGLSD, 2009</xref>). As result of the policy, Uganda is piloting a non-contributory scheme for older persons called social assistance grants for empowerment (SAGE) in 14 out of 112 districts. In this scheme, older persons age 65 years or 60 years in Karamoja region, receive 25,000 Uganda shillings monthly, an equivalent of $10 (<xref rid="bib0160" ref-type="bibr">MoGLSD, 2011</xref>). The Ugandan policy for older persons also recommended research on the health of older persons because of the poorly developed medical records. So far, self-reported health has been a key source of data on health needs.</p><p>Although self-rated health or self-reported health (SRH) is primarily subjective, it is useful for assessing the health of a population for which objective measures are scarce. SRH focuses on one's health status – whether it is excellent, very good, good, fair or poor (<xref rid="bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>). SRH has also been measured using self-reports on physical functioning or disability, morbidity (including non-communicable disease) and hospitalization (<xref rid="bib0030 bib0135 bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Bodde, Seo, & Frey, 2009; Lee, Huang, Lee, Chen, & Lin, 2012; Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>). In addition, SRH can be measured by self-reporting on the incidence of ill health or illness (<xref rid="bib0045 bib0090 bib0260" ref-type="bibr">Drum, Horner-Johnson, & Krahn, 2008; Kabir et al., 2003a; UBOS, 2010</xref>) in national surveys. In this paper, we used the incidence of being sick or ill during the past 30 days preceding the survey (<xref rid="bib0260" ref-type="bibr">UBOS, 2010</xref>) to measure ill health among older people.</p><p>Factors associated with SRH range from demographic to socio-economic. Advanced age was associated with poor physical health (<xref rid="bib0210 bib0255 bib0290" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013; Tomás, Gutiérrez, Sancho, & Galiana, 2012; Wasiak et al., 2014</xref>) for instance in Angola (<xref rid="bib0255" ref-type="bibr">Tomás et al., 2012</xref>), self-reported NCDs in South Africa (<xref rid="bib0215 bib0285" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013; Ward & Schiller, 2013</xref>), multi-morbidity in Ghana (<xref rid="bib0190" ref-type="bibr">Nimako, Baiden, Sackey, & Binka, 2013</xref>). Advanced age leads to reduced immune response against illnesses, increased mobility limitations, and NCDs (<xref rid="bib0215 bib0285" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013; Ward & Schiller, 2013</xref>). However, the Ghanaian study was hospital-based and did not predict the community level prevalence. In developed countries like Sweden, the pattern is similar (<xref rid="bib0140" ref-type="bibr">Marengoni, Winblad, Karp, & Fratiglioni, 2008</xref>).</p><p>With respect to gender and aging, older women report poorer health outcomes than the men. Paradoxically, older men experience higher mortality than older women (<xref rid="bib0100" ref-type="bibr">Kakoli & Anoshua, 2008</xref>). Being a woman was associated with depression in South Africa (<xref rid="bib0195 bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Nyirenda, Chatterji, Rochat, Mutevedzi, & Newell, 2013; Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>) and non-communicable diseases (<xref rid="bib0110 bib0140 bib0215 bib0250 bib0285" ref-type="bibr">Khanam et al., 2011a; Marengoni et al., 2008; Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013; Stelmach, Kaczmarczyk-Chałas, Bielecki, Stelmach, & Drygas, 2004; Ward & Schiller, 2013</xref>), poor physical health (<xref rid="bib0210 bib0290" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013; Wasiak et al., 2014</xref>), multi-morbidity in Ghana (<xref rid="bib0190" ref-type="bibr">Nimako et al., 2013</xref>) and Bangladesh (<xref rid="bib0115" ref-type="bibr">Khanam et al., 2011b</xref>) and hospitalization. The possible explanations are that women live in unfavorable socio-economic conditions (<xref rid="bib0190" ref-type="bibr">Nimako et al., 2013</xref>). The female gender disadvantage prevails even in developed countries (<xref rid="bib0140" ref-type="bibr">Marengoni et al., 2008</xref>) except in an Australian study (<xref rid="bib0040" ref-type="bibr">Britt, Harrison, Miller, & Knox, 2008</xref>). In addition, women easily report their health challenges more than the men, because the latter are not expected to acknowledge illness as readily as women do (<xref rid="bib0090" ref-type="bibr">Kabir et al., 2003a</xref>). Women are more sensitive to their health conditions than men due to their frequent interface with the health care system earlier in life (<xref rid="bib0100 bib0220" ref-type="bibr">Kakoli & Anoshua, 2008; Razzaque, Nahar, Khanam, & Streatfield, 2010</xref>).</p><p>Residing in urban areas is associated with poor SRH including NCDs in South Africa (<xref rid="bib0215" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013</xref>). Urban areas are associated with sedentary lifestyles and poor dietary habits (<xref rid="bib0085" ref-type="bibr">Hosseinpoor et al., 2012</xref>). Rural residents engage in active lifestyles which increases their physical activity, lowers the risk of obesity and hypertension and therefore improves their survival rates (<xref rid="bib0050" ref-type="bibr">Fantahun, Berhane, Hogberg, Wall, & Byass, 2009</xref>). Being not married (never married, separated and or divorced) is associated with poor health (<xref rid="bib0015 bib0070 bib0110 bib0210 bib0220" ref-type="bibr">Agrawal & Keshri, 2014; Gómez-Olivé, Thorogood, Clark, Kahn, & Tollman, 2010; Khanam et al., 2011a; Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013; Razzaque et al., 2010</xref>).</p><p>Low levels of education are associated with poor health (<xref rid="bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>), depression in Amsterdam, Netherlands (<xref rid="bib0120 bib0250" ref-type="bibr">Koster et al., 2006; Stelmach et al., 2004</xref>) and NCDs in South Africa (<xref rid="bib0215" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013</xref>) and Sweden (<xref rid="bib0140" ref-type="bibr">Marengoni et al., 2008</xref>). Low education limits access to health services especially for older persons (<xref rid="bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>). On the other hand, better education is associated with a lower prevalence of NCDs in South Africa because the more educated utilize health education or information better than the less educated (<xref rid="bib0020" ref-type="bibr">Alaba & Chola, 2013</xref>).</p><p>Low income is associated with depression among older persons in Amsterdam, Netherlands (<xref rid="bib0120" ref-type="bibr">Koster et al., 2006</xref>). High income is associated with self-reported non-communicable diseases in South Africa (<xref rid="bib0020 bib0215" ref-type="bibr">Alaba & Chola, 2013; Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013</xref>) and Bangladesh (<xref rid="bib0115" ref-type="bibr">Khanam et al., 2011b</xref>). Affluent households in developing countries, including South Africa, are more likely to adopt a western lifestyle and diets (<xref rid="bib0020 bib0085" ref-type="bibr">Alaba & Chola, 2013; Hosseinpoor et al., 2012</xref>). Disability or functional limitations have been associated with poor health in Angola (<xref rid="bib0255" ref-type="bibr">Tomás et al., 2012</xref>) and South Africa (<xref rid="bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>).</p><p>In Uganda, studies on the health of older persons have explored disability (<xref rid="bib0280" ref-type="bibr">Wandera, Ntozi, & Kwagala, 2014</xref>), and HIV and AIDS (<xref rid="bib0170 bib0185" ref-type="bibr">MRC & UVRI, 2011; Nankwanga, Phillips, & Neema, 2009</xref>). However, investigating self-reported ill health and associated factors among older people, preferably using a nationally representative sample, has received limited attention. Despite the available evidence about ill health in other developing countries, there is limited evidence on the risk factors for ill health among older persons in Uganda. Therefore, the objective of this paper was to estimate the prevalence of ill health and identify the associated risk factors, among older people in Uganda.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods" id="sec0010"><label>2</label><title>Materials and methods</title><sec id="sec0015"><label>2.1</label><title>Data</title><p>The study used the 2010 Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) data. The UNHS was a cross-sectional design, which used a two-stage stratified sampling. At the first stage, 712 enumeration areas were drawn using probability proportional to size. At the second stage, households were drawn using systematic sampling. A total of 6800 households were interviewed in the survey (<xref rid="bib0260" ref-type="bibr">UBOS, 2010</xref>).</p><p>Using the variable age, we selected older persons (50+) from the sample for further analysis. We obtained unweighted and weighted samples of 2628 and 2382 older persons respectively. We applied individual weights using the survey command (svy) in STATA 13 to account for the survey design including clustering and stratification. In the results, we reported weighted analyses. The decision to select persons aged 50 years and above was based on the fact that several studies using WHO and INDEPTH network data define older persons starting at age 50 for African contexts (<xref rid="bib0075 bib0080 bib0130 bib0175" ref-type="bibr">Gómez-Olivé et al., 2013; Hirve et al., 2010; Kyobutungi et al., 2010; Mwanyangala et al., 2010a</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="sec0020"><label>2.2</label><title>Explanatory variables</title><p>The UNHS data covered individual and household characteristics - demographic and socio-economic characteristics, disability, health, and housing conditions. Demographic factors included: gender (male or female), age group, region, place of residence (rural or urban), living arrangement, relationship to household head, and marital status. Age was recoded into four age categories: 50–59, 60–69, 70–79 and 80+. Region was recoded into four categories (1 = central, 2 = eastern, 3 = northern and 4 = western). Living arrangements was recoded into two categories (living alone and with others). Relationship to household head was recoded into three categories (1 = head, 2 = spouse and 3 = relative). Non-relatives were only six in number and we merged them with relatives to avoid losing cases. Marital status was recoded into three categories (1 = married, 2 = separated or divorced or never married and 3 = widowed). We merged three never married older persons with the separated and divorced category in the data in order to retain the cases.</p><p>Socio-economic factors included education level, religion, household poverty status, household major source of earnings, having learnt a technical skill, ownership of bicycle. Education level was recoded into no education, primary and secondary or higher education. Religion was recoded into Catholic, Anglican, Muslim, Pentecostal and Seventh Day Adventists and others. Household poverty status was generated from household expenditures and recoded 1 = poor if a household spent less than $1 a day and 0 = not poor, if a household spent greater than $1 a day). Household major source of earnings was recoded into farming, wages and remittances. There were no older persons without a form of earnings. Having learnt a technical skill or trade and household bicycle ownership were binary variables (0 = no, 1 = yes).</p><p>Disability questions focused on six domains or indicators in the UNHS survey. The six domains included seeing, hearing, walking or climbing, remembering or concentrating, self-care and communication. Therefore, being disabled was operationalized as either (a) having a lot of difficulty on any of the six indicators; (b) being unable to perform at all on any of the six indicators; or (c) having some difficulty with at least two of the six indicators. This approach to measuring disability has been used in other studies (<xref rid="bib0035 bib0150 bib0165" ref-type="bibr">Braithwaite & Mont, 2009; Mitra & Sambamoorthi, 2013; Mont, 2007</xref>). A detailed description of how this variable was generated can be found elsewhere (<xref rid="bib0280" ref-type="bibr">Wandera et al., 2014</xref>). Self-reporting of diabetes, heart diseases and high blood pressure were used to estimate the prevalence of NCDs, recoded as a binary variable (<xref rid="bib0260" ref-type="bibr">UBOS, 2010</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="sec0025"><label>2.3</label><title>Outcome variable</title><p>Health related information was collected on illnesses in the last 30 days preceding the survey, and self-reported NCDs (<xref rid="bib0260" ref-type="bibr">UBOS, 2010</xref>). All usual or regular household members were asked the following question: During the past 30 days, did you suffer from any illness or injury? The response to this question was binary (0 = no, 1 = yes).</p></sec><sec id="sec0030"><label>2.4</label><title>Statistical analyses</title><p>Statistical analyses were done in STATA version 13. In the first place, descriptive statistics (frequency and percent distributions) were analyzed to describe the sample. Secondly, we performed statistical tests of associations between demographic, socio-economics, and health factors, and being sick in the past 30 days using chi-square tests. The level of statistical significance was set at 95% confidence (<italic>p</italic> = 0.05). Finally, we did a full binary logistic regression model to predict the factors associated with ill health or being sick in the past 30 days among older people in Uganda. We weighted the analysis (using survey (svy) commands) to account for the survey design including clustering, and stratification.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="results" id="sec0035"><label>3</label><title>Results</title><sec id="sec0040"><label>3.1</label><title>Descriptive characteristics</title><p><xref rid="tbl0005" ref-type="table">Table 1</xref> presents the descriptive characteristics of older persons stratified by gender. Overall, older women were slightly more numerous than men were (52% vs 48%). Majority of older people were aged 50–59 years (45%). The mean age was for both men and women was 62 years (minimum = 50, maximum = 98 and standard deviation = 11 years; results not presented in <xref rid="tbl0005" ref-type="table">Table 1</xref>). The majority of the older people were from the eastern region (31%), lived in rural areas (90%), and with other people – not alone (91%). There were no significant differences between men and women by age (<italic>p</italic> = 0.56), region (<italic>p</italic> = 0.08), and living arrangement (<italic>p</italic> = 0.12).</p><p>Seven in ten (70%) older people headed households, over half (59%) were married and had no formal education (68%). Men, compared to women, were more likely to head household heads (88% vs 54%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001); be in union or marriage (81% vs 38%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.01); and had better education levels (37% vs 27%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.01).</p><p>The majority (45%) of older persons (both men and women) were Catholics and were from non-poor households – spent >$1 a day (77%). A higher proportion of older persons depended on farming (61%) and wages (27%). However, a higher proportion of older women than men depended on remittances (17% vs 8%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.01). About one in five (22%) older persons had learnt a technical skill or trade. Four in ten (40%) of older people owned a bicycle. More older men's households than women owned bicycles (48% vs 32%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.01). There were no significant differences between men and women by poverty status (<italic>p</italic> = 0.48) and having learnt a technical skill or trade (<italic>p</italic> = 0.26).</p><p>About two in ten (23%) older persons reported at least one NCD (diabetes, heart diseases and high blood pressure) and a third (33%) had a disability. A higher proportion of women than men reported having an NCD (30% vs 16%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.01) or a disability (38% vs 28%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.01). Overall, six in ten (62%) older persons had been sick in the last 30 days. A higher proportion of women than men were sick in the last 30 days (67% vs 56%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.01).</p></sec><sec id="sec0045"><label>3.2</label><title>Association between self-reported ill health and demographic and socio-economic factors</title><p><xref rid="tbl0010" ref-type="table">Table 2</xref> presents chi-square test results for association between self-reported ill health and socio-economic, demographic and health factors, stratified by gender. Surprisingly, education and poverty status consistently had no association with self-reported ill health among older men, women, and all older persons.</p><p>Among all older persons, the prevalence of self-reported ill health was highest among women (67%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001), oldest old – age 80+ (73%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001), rural residents (63%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.045), those living alone (73%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.001) and the widowed (68%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.001). In addition, self-reported ill health was highest among Muslims (68%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.002), those who depended on remittances (75%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001), had a technical skill (66%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.041), did not own a bicycle (65%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.004), reported NCDs (75%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001) and had a disability (79%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001). However, self-reported ill health did not vary significantly by region (<italic>p</italic> = 0.083), headship status (<italic>p</italic> = 0.051).</p><p>Among men, the prevalence of self-reported ill health was highest among those aged 70–79 years (71%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001), those living alone (67%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.02), those who headed households (59%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001) and those without a partner – separated or divorced or never married (66%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.05). Self-reported ill health was highest among men who were Muslims (62%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.014), did not own a bicycle (60%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.02), reported NCDs (65%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.02) and had a disability (77%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001). However, self-reported ill health among men did not vary significantly by region (<italic>p</italic> = 0.662), residence (<italic>p</italic> = 0.996), source of earnings (<italic>p</italic> = 0.146), having learnt a technical skill (<italic>p</italic> = 0.353), education and poverty status.</p><p>Self-reported ill health among women was highest among the oldest old (76%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.01), those from eastern region (75%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.03), rural residents (69%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.035), those living alone (80%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.011), and headed households (71%; <italic>p</italic> = 0.01). Self-reported ill health among women was highest among those who depended on remittances (78%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001), had a technical skill (73%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.032), reported NCDs (79%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001) and had a disability (80%; <italic>p</italic> < 0.001). However, self-reported ill health among women did not vary significantly by marital status (<italic>p</italic> = 0.545), education (<italic>p</italic> = 0.569), religion (<italic>p</italic> = 0.104), poverty status (<italic>p</italic> = 0.09), and bicycle ownership (0.447). The prevalence of self-reported ill health was slightly higher among older women than that of men, on several demographic and socio-economic variables (<xref rid="tbl0010" ref-type="table">Table 2</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="sec0050"><label>3.3</label><title>Multivariable results</title><p><xref rid="tbl0015" ref-type="table">Table 3</xref> presents results of the multivariable logistic regression of self-reported ill health among older persons in Uganda, stratified by gender. Among all older persons, self-reported ill health was associated with advanced age, being a woman, eastern region, being household head, Catholic, reporting NCDs, and disability. Older persons age 70–79, compared to those aged 50–59, had increased odds (OR = 1.53, 95% CI: 1.14–2.05) of reporting ill health. Older people who resided in the eastern region, relative to central region, were more likely (OR = 1.41, 95% CI: 1.04–1.91) to report illness during the past 30 days preceding the survey. Household heads, compared to their relatives, had increased odds of reporting ill health. Compared to Catholics, Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) and other religions, had decreased (OR = 0.41, 95% CI: 0.24–0.72) odds of being sick in the last 30 days.</p><p>Self-reported NCDs increased the risk (OR = 1.69, 95% CI: 1.31–2.17) of self-reported ill health among older persons. Similarly, disabled older persons had a higher likelihood (OR = 2.51, 95% CI: 1.98–3.18) of reporting ill health compared to those who were not. Finally, older women had increased odds (OR = 1.71; 95% CI: 1.29–2.27) of reporting ill health, compared to older men.</p><p>Among older men alone, self-reported ill health was associated with advanced age, being household head, being Catholic, and being disabled. Among older women alone, self-reported ill health was associated with eastern region, being household head, depending on farming relative to wages, reporting NCDs and having a disability (see <xref rid="tbl0015" ref-type="table">Table 3</xref>).</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="discussion" id="sec0055"><label>4</label><title>Discussion</title><p>The aim of this paper was to estimate the prevalence of self-reported ill health and its associated factors among older persons in Uganda. More than half (62%) of the older persons reported ill health in the last 30 days. The prevalence of ill health among older persons in Uganda was higher (62%) in comparison to 42% in South Africa (<xref rid="bib0075" ref-type="bibr">Gómez-Olivé et al., 2013</xref>) or 48% in Singapore (<xref rid="bib0060" ref-type="bibr">George et al., 2012</xref>). In Addition, this prevalence of poor SRH was higher than the national estimate of 43% in the UNHS survey (<xref rid="bib0260" ref-type="bibr">UBOS, 2010</xref>). Self-reported ill health among all older persons was associated with advanced age, eastern region, being household head, being catholic, self-reported NCDs, disability, and being a woman.</p><p>Advanced age was associated with poor health. Advancement in age is associated with reduced immune response against illnesses, increased mobility limitations, and NCDs that impede access to healthcare and non-communicable diseases (<xref rid="bib0215 bib0285" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013; Ward & Schiller, 2013</xref>). In addition, physiological changes that inhibit intake of nutrients and the factors already highlighted, contribute to poor physical health (<xref rid="bib0210 bib0255 bib0290" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013; Tomás et al., 2012; Wasiak et al., 2014</xref>). However, the effect of advanced age on self-reported ill health was significant for older men alone and all older persons but not for older women alone (in the final model). For older women alone, the effect of age was mediated by disability in the final model.</p><p>Self-reported ill health among all older persons was associated with eastern region. It is important to note that the prevalence of self-reported ill health was highest in this region among men (59%), women (75%) and all older persons (67%). This finding was consistent with the prevalence of ill health in the general population in the 2010 UNHS report, where 43% of Ugandans reported ill health and eastern region had the highest prevalence (51%). In addition, eastern region had the highest prevalence of ill health among children under five years in the UNHS survey. This was due to the poorest socio-economic status (poverty) compared to other regions (<xref rid="bib0260" ref-type="bibr">UBOS, 2010</xref>). On the other hand, there were no regional variations in self-reported ill health among older men.</p><p>Household headship among older persons is an indicator of vulnerability (<xref rid="bib0065" ref-type="bibr">Golaz & Rutaremwa, 2011</xref>). Other studies in Uganda have reported that older persons were household heads and caregivers of HIV and AIDS orphaned children (<xref rid="bib0200 bib0230 bib0235 bib0245" ref-type="bibr">Nyirenda, Newell, et al., 2013; Scholten et al., 2011; Seeley, Dercon, & Barnett, 2010; Seeley, Wolff, Kabunga, Tumwekwase, & Grosskurth, 2009</xref>). Older people do not earn viable incomes and are supposed to be dependent, yet they shoulder economic and social/physical and emotional responsibilities as they co-reside with orphaned children. It is difficult for them to think about their health when they have young people under their care who are ill (<xref rid="bib0240 bib0245" ref-type="bibr">Seeley, Kabunga, Tumwekwase, Wolff, & Grosskurth, 2008; Seeley et al., 2009</xref>). Access to proper health care in older age is a challenge for most older people, especially those with limited social or family support (<xref rid="bib0225 bib0245" ref-type="bibr">Schafer, 2013; Seeley et al., 2009</xref>).</p><p>Religion was associated with self-reported ill health among men and all older persons. The Seventh Day Adventists (SDAs) were less likely to be ill during the 30 days preceding the survey, compared to Catholics. SDA older persons are highly devoted to their religion and this could explain their better health outcomes. Studies have reported that deeply religious persons tend to have restrictive diets and are most likely to be healthier in the long term (<xref rid="bib0055 bib0300" ref-type="bibr">Ferraro & Koch, 1994; Yeager et al., 2006</xref>). Restrictive diets reduce the risk of NCDs associated with affluent dietary habits. A cross tabulation of poverty and religion indicated that SDAs had the highest (48%) proportion of poor older persons, compared to (<30%) other religions (results not presented). However, the influence of religion on self-reported health requires further research.</p><p>Earning wages was associated with self-reported ill health among older women only. Women who earn wages were less likely to report ill health. This is not surprising because earning wages indicated that someone was either still in working age (44% of the women and retirement age in Uganda is 60 years) or they are younger older persons. However, the effect of wage earnings was not significant for older men and all older persons. Low socio-economic status has been associated with poor self-reported health in Netherlands (<xref rid="bib0120" ref-type="bibr">Koster et al., 2006</xref>), South Africa (<xref rid="bib0020 bib0215" ref-type="bibr">Alaba & Chola, 2013; Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013</xref>) and Bangladesh (<xref rid="bib0115" ref-type="bibr">Khanam et al., 2011b</xref>) and Korea (<xref rid="bib0205" ref-type="bibr">Park, Cho, & Jang, 2012</xref>).</p><p>As expected, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were associated with self-reported ill health among women and all older persons. NCDs such as heart disease, diabetes and hypertension, lead to regular episodes of attack, which leads to frequent ill health among older persons. In addition, they weaken the immune system, which makes older persons susceptible to frequent illness episodes (<xref rid="bib0110 bib0140 bib0215 bib0250 bib0285" ref-type="bibr">Khanam et al., 2011a; Marengoni et al., 2008; Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Musekiwa, et al., 2013; Stelmach et al., 2004; Ward & Schiller, 2013</xref>). Surprisingly, self-reported NCDs were not significantly associated with self-reported ill health among older men.</p><p>Disability was also associated with ill health among older persons in Uganda. Forms of disability, particularly those that limit mobility, impede physical or spatial accessibility to health care facilities (<xref rid="bib0075" ref-type="bibr">Gómez-Olivé et al., 2013</xref>). A study from Angola (<xref rid="bib0255" ref-type="bibr">Tomás et al., 2012</xref>) and South Africa (<xref rid="bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>) reported this finding.</p><p>Finally, older women reported ill health more than older men. Women's poor health status reflects their lifelong experience of poor socio-economic status (<xref rid="bib0190" ref-type="bibr">Nimako et al., 2013</xref>), discrimination, deprivation and neglect (<xref rid="bib0100 bib0220" ref-type="bibr">Kakoli & Anoshua, 2008; Razzaque et al., 2010</xref>). This finding confirms findings from IN-DEPTH network data (<xref rid="bib0070 bib0075 bib0080 bib0180" ref-type="bibr">Gómez-Olivé et al., 2010, 2013; Hirve et al., 2010; Mwanyangala et al., 2010b</xref>) and other developing countries (<xref rid="bib0095" ref-type="bibr">Kabir et al., 2003b</xref>), where women reported poorer health status than men (<xref rid="bib0105" ref-type="bibr">Keskinoglu, Giray, Pıcakcıefe, Bilgic, & Ucku, 2005</xref>). Differential reporting might account for gender difference in ill health between men and women. It is also possible that men's health problems are under-reported because men are not expected to acknowledge illness as readily as women do (<xref rid="bib0090" ref-type="bibr">Kabir et al., 2003a</xref>). In addition, scholars have argued that women are more sensitive and easily report health conditions than men (<xref rid="bib0100 bib0220" ref-type="bibr">Kakoli & Anoshua, 2008; Razzaque et al., 2010</xref>). They also interface with the healthcare system as caregivers of their children, more often than men do during their lifetime (<xref rid="bib0075" ref-type="bibr">Gómez-Olivé et al., 2013</xref>). Women also suffer from debilitating conditions but not fatal ones and this explains the paradox of high morbidity and less mortality among them compared to the men (<xref rid="bib0145" ref-type="bibr">Minh, Byass, Chuc, & Wall, 2010</xref>). However, new evidence suggests that this gender disparity in health status does not emerge when acute and chronic conditions are measured (<xref rid="bib0125" ref-type="bibr">Krause, Liang, Jain, & Sugisawa, 1998</xref>).</p><sec id="sec0060"><label>4.1</label><title>Study limitations and strengths</title><p>From the data, it is hard to ascertain the type or kind of sickness, which older persons suffered from. A follow up question to those who were sick asked about two primary symptoms that they suffered from. The symptoms included the following: diarrhea, weight loss, fever, malaria, skin rash, weakness, severe headache, fainting, chills (feeling hot and cold), vomiting, cough, coughing blood, pain on passing urine, genital sores, mental disorder, abdominal pain, sore throat, difficulty breathing, burn, fracture, wound, and child birth related illness. From the categories of the two symptoms, it is hard to tell the disease suffered from. The categories presented in the questionnaire did not include non-communicable diseases yet some of the older persons had them.</p><p>Self-reported health is a subjective measure of health status. In some studies, self-reported health was validated by taking objective measurements (<xref rid="bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>), which was not the case in the Uganda National and Household survey. Under-reporting of health conditions such as NCDs and disability could have led to inaccuracies in self-reported data. However, subjective measures have been applauded for being “good measures for complex health problems” (<xref rid="bib0210" ref-type="bibr">Phaswana-Mafuya, Peltzer, Chirinda, Kose, et al., 2013</xref>) and providing estimates where objective measures are scarce.</p><p>The cross sectional nature of the UNHS does not allow cause-effect investigations (<xref rid="bib0100" ref-type="bibr">Kakoli & Anoshua, 2008</xref>). This implies that there is a need for longitudinal data to ascertain the direction of relationships among the variables under investigation. Nonetheless, the findings provide benchmarks for follow-up studies.</p><p>However, the strength of this study is that its findings are based on a nationally representative sample and they illuminate the knowledge gap about the health status of older persons in Uganda. Such vital information is useful in national planning for health service delivery tailored to addressing the needs of older persons in the country. In addition, it is representative of all older persons in Uganda.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="conclusions" id="sec0065"><label>5</label><title>Conclusions</title><p>Self-reported ill health among all older persons was associated with advanced age, eastern region of residence, being a household head, being Catholic, self-reported non-communicable diseases (NCDs), being disabled and being a woman.</p><p>Inequalities in health status exist among older people in Uganda. Interventions to improve the health of older people need to target the oldest old, the eastern region, those who head households, report NCDs and those who are disabled.</p><p>The primary healthcare system needs to scale up its efforts in the prevention and management of NCDs in old age in Uganda. The Ministry of Health (MoH) should prioritize NCDs especially hypertension, diabetes and heart disease, which predisposes older people to other disabling conditions like stroke. This will reduce co-morbidities and mortality among older people especially men. In addition, the disabled older persons need special attention.</p><p>There is need for further research on the health of older persons using the World Health Organization (WHO) life course approach. In particular, we need specialized surveys on older people to cover a broad spectrum of aging and health issues, to explore the relationship between region of residence, religious affiliation, and self-reported ill health. In particular, longitudinal studies including qualitative methods would be ideal. 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We acknowledge the comments and contributions of the members of the Doctoral Committee (DC): Associate Professor Gideon Rutaremwa and Dr. Sandra Kasoma.</p><p>This research was partially supported by the <funding-source id="gs1">Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA)</funding-source>. CARTA is jointly led by the African Population and Health Research Center and the University of the Witwatersrand and funded by the <funding-source id="gs2">Wellcome Trust (UK)</funding-source> (Grant No: 087547/Z/08/Z), the Department for International Development (DfID) under the Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE), the <funding-source id="gs3">Carnegie Corporation of New York</funding-source> (Grant No: B 8606), the <funding-source id="gs4">Ford Foundation</funding-source> (Grant No: 1100-0399), <funding-source id="gs5">Google.Org</funding-source> (Grant No: 191994), <funding-source id="gs6">SIDA</funding-source> (Grant No: 54100029) and <funding-source id="gs7">MacArthur Foundation</funding-source> (Grant No: 10-95915-000-INP).</p><p>In addition, we acknowledge the support of <funding-source id="gs8">DAAD Uganda</funding-source> (Grant No: A/12/94627) for the payment of tuition and functional fees and research allowance.</p></ack></back><floats-group><table-wrap id="tbl0005" position="float"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>Distribution of older persons by demographic, socio-economics, health factors and self-reported ill health, stratified by gender in Uganda.</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th></th><th colspan="2" align="left">Men<hr></hr></th><th colspan="2" align="left">Women<hr></hr></th><th colspan="3" align="left">All<hr></hr></th></tr><tr><th align="left">Variables</th><th align="left">Number (<italic>n</italic>)</th><th align="left">Percent (%)</th><th align="left">Number (<italic>n</italic>)</th><th align="left">Percent (%)</th><th align="left">Number (<italic>n</italic>)</th><th align="left">Percent (%)</th><th align="left"><italic>p</italic>-value</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">Gender</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Men</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">1136</td><td align="char">47.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Women</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">1246</td><td align="char">52.3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Age group</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.56</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 50–59</td><td align="char">524</td><td align="char">46.1</td><td align="char">542</td><td align="char">43.5</td><td align="char">1066</td><td align="char">44.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 60–69</td><td align="char">313</td><td align="char">27.6</td><td align="char">356</td><td align="char">28.6</td><td align="char">670</td><td align="char">28.1</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 70–79</td><td align="char">206</td><td align="char">18.1</td><td align="char">228</td><td align="char">18.3</td><td align="char">433</td><td align="char">18.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 80+</td><td align="char">94</td><td align="char">8.2</td><td align="char">120</td><td align="char">9.6</td><td align="char">213</td><td align="char">9.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Region</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.08</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Central</td><td align="char">278</td><td align="char">24.5</td><td align="char">311</td><td align="char">24.9</td><td align="char">589</td><td align="char">24.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Eastern</td><td align="char">371</td><td align="char">32.6</td><td align="char">358</td><td align="char">28.7</td><td align="char">728</td><td align="char">30.6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Northern</td><td align="char">216</td><td align="char">19.1</td><td align="char">253</td><td align="char">20.3</td><td align="char">470</td><td align="char">19.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Western</td><td align="char">271</td><td align="char">23.8</td><td align="char">324</td><td align="char">26.0</td><td align="char">595</td><td align="char">25.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Place of residence</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.95</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Rural</td><td align="char">1032</td><td align="char">90.8</td><td align="char">1131</td><td align="char">90.7</td><td align="char">2162</td><td align="char">90.8</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Urban</td><td align="char">104</td><td align="char">9.2</td><td align="char">115</td><td align="char">9.3</td><td align="char">220</td><td align="char">9.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Living alone</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.12</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">1022</td><td align="char">90.0</td><td align="char">1145</td><td align="char">91.9</td><td align="char">2167</td><td align="char">91.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">114</td><td align="char">10.0</td><td align="char">101</td><td align="char">8.1</td><td align="char">215</td><td align="char">9.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Relationship to household head</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Head</td><td align="char">995</td><td align="char">87.6</td><td align="char">669</td><td align="char">53.7</td><td align="char">1664</td><td align="char">69.9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Spouse</td><td align="char">72</td><td align="char">6.3</td><td align="char">387</td><td align="char">31.0</td><td align="char">458</td><td align="char">19.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Relative</td><td align="char">69</td><td align="char">6.1</td><td align="char">191</td><td align="char">15.3</td><td align="char">260</td><td align="char">10.9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Marital status</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Married</td><td align="char">919</td><td align="char">80.9</td><td align="char">477</td><td align="char">38.3</td><td align="char">1396</td><td align="char">58.6</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Div/Sep/never married<xref rid="tblfn0005" ref-type="table-fn">a</xref></td><td align="char">84</td><td align="char">7.4</td><td align="char">158</td><td align="char">12.7</td><td align="char">242</td><td align="char">10.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Widowed</td><td align="char">133</td><td align="char">11.7</td><td align="char">611</td><td align="char">49.0</td><td align="char">744</td><td align="char">31.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Education level</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> None</td><td align="char">713</td><td align="char">62.8</td><td align="char">908</td><td align="char">72.8</td><td align="char">1621</td><td align="char">68.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Primary</td><td align="char">302</td><td align="char">26.6</td><td align="char">287</td><td align="char">23.0</td><td align="char">589</td><td align="char">24.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Secondary+</td><td align="char">121</td><td align="char">10.7</td><td align="char">51</td><td align="char">4.1</td><td align="char">172</td><td align="char">7.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Total</td><td align="char">1136</td><td align="char">100.0</td><td align="char">1246</td><td align="char">100.0</td><td align="char">2382</td><td align="char">100</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Religion</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Catholic</td><td align="char">527</td><td align="char">46.4</td><td align="char">549</td><td align="char">44.1</td><td align="char">1076</td><td align="char">45.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Anglican</td><td align="char">398</td><td align="char">35.0</td><td align="char">448</td><td align="char">36.0</td><td align="char">846</td><td align="char">35.5</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Muslim</td><td align="char">110</td><td align="char">9.7</td><td align="char">96</td><td align="char">7.7</td><td align="char">206</td><td align="char">8.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Pentecostal</td><td align="char">56</td><td align="char">4.9</td><td align="char">108</td><td align="char">8.7</td><td align="char">164</td><td align="char">6.9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> SDA & Others</td><td align="char">45</td><td align="char">4.0</td><td align="char">44</td><td align="char">3.6</td><td align="char">90</td><td align="char">3.8</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Poverty status</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.48</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Non-poor</td><td align="char">883</td><td align="char">77.7</td><td align="char">955</td><td align="char">76.7</td><td align="char">1838</td><td align="char">77.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Poor</td><td align="char">253</td><td align="char">22.3</td><td align="char">291</td><td align="char">23.3</td><td align="char">544</td><td align="char">22.8</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Household source of earnings</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Farming</td><td align="char">720</td><td align="char">63.4</td><td align="char">731</td><td align="char">58.7</td><td align="char">1451</td><td align="char">60.9</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Wages</td><td align="char">330</td><td align="char">29.0</td><td align="char">307</td><td align="char">24.7</td><td align="char">637</td><td align="char">26.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Remittances</td><td align="char">86</td><td align="char">7.6</td><td align="char">208</td><td align="char">16.7</td><td align="char">294</td><td align="char">12.3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Learnt a trade or technical skill</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.26</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">875</td><td align="char">77.0</td><td align="char">983</td><td align="char">78.9</td><td align="char">1858</td><td align="char">78.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">261</td><td align="char">23.0</td><td align="char">263</td><td align="char">21.1</td><td align="char">524</td><td align="char">22.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Household owns bicycle</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">590</td><td align="char">51.9</td><td align="char">846</td><td align="char">67.9</td><td align="char">1436</td><td align="char">60.3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">546</td><td align="char">48.1</td><td align="char">400</td><td align="char">32.1</td><td align="char">946</td><td align="char">39.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Reported NCDs (heart disease, hypertension or diabetes)</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">949</td><td align="char">83.6</td><td align="char">878</td><td align="char">70.4</td><td align="char">1827</td><td align="char">76.7</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">187</td><td align="char">16.4</td><td align="char">368</td><td align="char">29.6</td><td align="char">555</td><td align="char">23.3</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Disabled</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">823</td><td align="char">72.4</td><td align="char">777</td><td align="char">62.4</td><td align="char">1600</td><td align="char">67.2</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">314</td><td align="char">27.6</td><td align="char">469</td><td align="char">37.6</td><td align="char">782</td><td align="char">32.8</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Sick in last 30 days</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">495</td><td align="char">43.6</td><td align="char">409</td><td align="char">32.8</td><td align="char">904</td><td align="char">38.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">641</td><td align="char">56.4</td><td align="char">837</td><td align="char">67.2</td><td align="char">1478</td><td align="char">62.0</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="8" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Total</td><td align="char">1136</td><td align="char">100.0</td><td align="char">1246</td><td align="char">100.0</td><td align="char">2382</td><td align="char">100</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><fn id="tblfn0005"><label>a</label><p>Never married were only 3 cases.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><table-wrap id="tbl0010" position="float"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p>Association between self-reported health and demographic, socio-economics, health factors and self-reported ill health, stratified by gender in Uganda.</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left">Variables</th><th colspan="3" align="left">Men<hr></hr></th><th colspan="3" align="left">Women<hr></hr></th><th colspan="3" align="left">All<hr></hr></th></tr><tr><th></th><th align="left">% Sick</th><th align="left">Number (<italic>n</italic>)</th><th align="left"><italic>p</italic>-value</th><th align="left">% Sick</th><th align="left">Number (<italic>n</italic>)</th><th align="left"><italic>p</italic>-value</th><th align="left">% Sick</th><th align="left">Number (<italic>n</italic>)</th><th align="left"><italic>p</italic>-value</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left">Gender</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Women</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">67.2</td><td align="char">1246</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Men</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">56.4</td><td align="char">1136</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Age group</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 50–59</td><td align="char">49.1</td><td align="char">524</td><td></td><td align="char">62.1</td><td align="char">542</td><td></td><td align="char">55.7</td><td align="char">1066</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 60–69</td><td align="char">56.0</td><td align="char">313</td><td></td><td align="char">67.4</td><td align="char">356</td><td></td><td align="char">62.1</td><td align="char">670</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 70–79</td><td align="char">70.5</td><td align="char">206</td><td></td><td align="char">74.1</td><td align="char">228</td><td></td><td align="char">72.4</td><td align="char">433</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 80+</td><td align="char">67.9</td><td align="char">94</td><td></td><td align="char">76.2</td><td align="char">120</td><td></td><td align="char">72.6</td><td align="char">213</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Region</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.66</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.03</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.08</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Central</td><td align="char">55.3</td><td align="char">278</td><td></td><td align="char">64.5</td><td align="char">311</td><td></td><td align="char">60.1</td><td align="char">589</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Eastern</td><td align="char">59.1</td><td align="char">371</td><td></td><td align="char">74.7</td><td align="char">358</td><td></td><td align="char">66.8</td><td align="char">728</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Northern</td><td align="char">56.9</td><td align="char">216</td><td></td><td align="char">64.7</td><td align="char">253</td><td></td><td align="char">61.1</td><td align="char">470</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Western</td><td align="char">53.4</td><td align="char">271</td><td></td><td align="char">63.4</td><td align="char">324</td><td></td><td align="char">58.9</td><td align="char">595</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Place of residence</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.99</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.03</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.05</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Rural</td><td align="char">56.4</td><td align="char">1032</td><td></td><td align="char">68.5</td><td align="char">1131</td><td></td><td align="char">62.7</td><td align="char">2162</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Urban</td><td align="char">56.4</td><td align="char">104</td><td></td><td align="char">53.7</td><td align="char">115</td><td></td><td align="char">55.0</td><td align="char">220</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Living alone</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.02</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">55.2</td><td align="char">1022</td><td></td><td align="char">66.0</td><td align="char">1145</td><td></td><td align="char">60.9</td><td align="char">2167</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">67.0</td><td align="char">114</td><td></td><td align="char">80.0</td><td align="char">101</td><td></td><td align="char">73.1</td><td align="char">215</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Relationship to household head</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.05</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Head</td><td align="char">58.8</td><td align="char">995</td><td></td><td align="char">70.6</td><td align="char">669</td><td></td><td align="char">63.6</td><td align="char">1664</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Spouse</td><td align="char">31.5</td><td align="char">72</td><td></td><td align="char">65.9</td><td align="char">387</td><td></td><td align="char">60.5</td><td align="char">458</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Relative</td><td align="char">47.4</td><td align="char">69</td><td></td><td align="char">57.5</td><td align="char">191</td><td></td><td align="char">54.8</td><td align="char">260</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Marital status</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.05</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.55</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Married</td><td align="char">54.7</td><td align="char">919</td><td></td><td align="char">65.6</td><td align="char">477</td><td></td><td align="char">58.4</td><td align="char">1396</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Div/Sep/never married<xref rid="tblfn0010" ref-type="table-fn">a</xref></td><td align="char">65.6</td><td align="char">84</td><td></td><td align="char">65.2</td><td align="char">158</td><td></td><td align="char">65.4</td><td align="char">242</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Widowed</td><td align="char">62.7</td><td align="char">133</td><td></td><td align="char">68.9</td><td align="char">611</td><td></td><td align="char">67.7</td><td align="char">744</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Education level</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.39</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.57</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.98</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> None</td><td align="char">55.8</td><td align="char">713</td><td></td><td align="char">67.2</td><td align="char">908</td><td></td><td align="char">62.2</td><td align="char">1621</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Primary</td><td align="char">55.4</td><td align="char">302</td><td></td><td align="char">68.3</td><td align="char">287</td><td></td><td align="char">61.7</td><td align="char">589</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Secondary+</td><td align="char">62.5</td><td align="char">121</td><td></td><td align="char">60.2</td><td align="char">51</td><td></td><td align="char">61.8</td><td align="char">172</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Religion</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.11</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Catholic</td><td align="char">58.2</td><td align="char">527</td><td></td><td align="char">68.0</td><td align="char">549</td><td></td><td align="char">63.2</td><td align="char">1076</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Anglican</td><td align="char">56.0</td><td align="char">398</td><td></td><td align="char">66.1</td><td align="char">448</td><td></td><td align="char">61.4</td><td align="char">846</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Muslim</td><td align="char">62.2</td><td align="char">110</td><td></td><td align="char">74.5</td><td align="char">96</td><td></td><td align="char">67.9</td><td align="char">206</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Pentecostal</td><td align="char">53.3</td><td align="char">56</td><td></td><td align="char">67.6</td><td align="char">108</td><td></td><td align="char">62.7</td><td align="char">164</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> SDA & Others</td><td align="char">29.7</td><td align="char">45</td><td></td><td align="char">49.6</td><td align="char">44</td><td></td><td align="char">39.6</td><td align="char">90</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Poverty status</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.36</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.09</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.58</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Non-poor</td><td align="char">55.6</td><td align="char">883</td><td></td><td align="char">68.6</td><td align="char">955</td><td></td><td align="char">62.4</td><td align="char">1838</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Poor</td><td align="char">59.1</td><td align="char">253</td><td></td><td align="char">62.5</td><td align="char">291</td><td></td><td align="char">60.9</td><td align="char">544</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Household earnings</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.15</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Farming</td><td align="char">55.5</td><td align="char">720</td><td></td><td align="char">68.2</td><td align="char">731</td><td></td><td align="char">61.9</td><td align="char">1451</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Wages</td><td align="char">55.5</td><td align="char">330</td><td></td><td align="char">57.5</td><td align="char">307</td><td></td><td align="char">56.5</td><td align="char">637</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Remittances</td><td align="char">67.6</td><td align="char">86</td><td></td><td align="char">77.7</td><td align="char">208</td><td></td><td align="char">74.8</td><td align="char">294</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Learnt a trade or technical skill</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.35</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.03</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">55.6</td><td align="char">875</td><td></td><td align="char">65.5</td><td align="char">983</td><td></td><td align="char">60.8</td><td align="char">1858</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">59.2</td><td align="char">261</td><td></td><td align="char">73.4</td><td align="char">263</td><td></td><td align="char">66.3</td><td align="char">524</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Household owns bicycle</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.02</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.45</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">59.9</td><td align="char">590</td><td></td><td align="char">68.0</td><td align="char">846</td><td></td><td align="char">64.7</td><td align="char">1436</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">52.6</td><td align="char">546</td><td></td><td align="char">65.4</td><td align="char">400</td><td></td><td align="char">58.0</td><td align="char">946</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Reported an NCD (heart disease, hypertension or diabetes)</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">0.02</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">54.7</td><td align="char">949</td><td></td><td align="char">62.1</td><td align="char">878</td><td></td><td align="char">58.2</td><td align="char">1827</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">65.2</td><td align="char">187</td><td></td><td align="char">79.3</td><td align="char">368</td><td></td><td align="char">74.5</td><td align="char">555</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Disabled</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td><td></td><td></td><td align="char"><0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> No</td><td align="char">48.8</td><td align="char">823</td><td></td><td align="char">59.4</td><td align="char">777</td><td></td><td align="char">53.9</td><td align="char">1600</td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Yes</td><td align="char">76.5</td><td align="char">314</td><td></td><td align="char">80.0</td><td align="char">469</td><td></td><td align="char">78.6</td><td align="char">782</td><td></td></tr><tr><td colspan="10" align="left">
</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Total</td><td align="char">56.4</td><td align="char">1136</td><td></td><td align="char">67.2</td><td align="char">1246</td><td></td><td align="char">62.0</td><td align="char">2382</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><fn id="tblfn0010"><label>a</label><p>Never married were only 3 cases.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><table-wrap id="tbl0015" position="float"><label>Table 3</label><caption><p>Results of multivariable logistic regression of self-reported ill health on socio-economic, demographic and health-related factors among older people in Uganda.</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left">Variables</th><th colspan="2" align="left">Men<hr></hr></th><th colspan="2" align="left">Women<hr></hr></th><th colspan="2" align="left">All<hr></hr></th></tr><tr><th></th><th align="left">Odds ratio</th><th align="left">95% CI</th><th align="left">Odds ratio</th><th align="left">95% CI</th><th align="left">Odds ratio</th><th align="left">95% CI</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="7" align="left">Age group (rc = 50–59)</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 60–69</td><td align="char">1.14</td><td align="left">[0.81–1.61]</td><td align="char">1.05</td><td align="left">[0.78–1.43]</td><td align="char">1.12</td><td align="left">[0.87–1.44]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 70–79</td><td align="char">1.84<sup>**</sup></td><td align="left">[1.25–2.71]</td><td align="char">1.24</td><td align="left">[0.81–1.90]</td><td align="char">1.53<sup>**</sup></td><td align="left">[1.14–2.05]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> 80+</td><td align="char">1.43</td><td align="left">[0.78–2.60]</td><td align="char">1.61</td><td align="left">[0.88–2.95]</td><td align="char">1.51</td><td align="left">[0.96–2.37]</td></tr><tr><td colspan="7" align="left">Region (rc = central)</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Eastern</td><td align="char">1.27</td><td align="left">[0.85–1.89]</td><td align="char">1.86<sup>**</sup></td><td align="left">[1.18–2.92]</td><td align="char">1.41<sup>*</sup></td><td align="left">[1.04–1.91]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Northern</td><td align="char">1.16</td><td align="left">[0.76–1.78]</td><td align="char">1.24</td><td align="left">[0.82–1.87]</td><td align="char">1.15</td><td align="left">[0.86–1.54]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Western</td><td align="char">0.99</td><td align="left">[0.62–1.56]</td><td align="char">1.10</td><td align="left">[0.68–1.78]</td><td align="char">1.02</td><td align="left">[0.73–1.43]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Place of residence (rc = rural)</td><td align="char">1.10</td><td align="left">[0.59–2.07]</td><td align="char">0.66</td><td align="left">[0.38–1.16]</td><td align="char">0.83</td><td align="left">[0.58–1.19]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Living alone (rc = live with others)</td><td align="char">0.80</td><td align="left">[0.43–1.46]</td><td align="char">1.41</td><td align="left">[0.78–2.57]</td><td align="char">1.29</td><td align="left">[0.88–1.90]</td></tr><tr><td colspan="7" align="left">Relationship to household head (rc = head)</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Spouse</td><td align="char">0.34<sup>***</sup></td><td align="left">[0.19–0.61]</td><td align="char">0.91</td><td align="left">[0.55–1.51]</td><td align="char">0.73</td><td align="left">[0.52–1.02]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Relative</td><td align="char">0.41<sup>**</sup></td><td align="left">[0.21–0.78]</td><td align="char">0.64<sup>*</sup></td><td align="left">[0.43–0.96]</td><td align="char">0.62<sup>**</sup></td><td align="left">[0.44–0.85]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Marital status (rc = married)</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Divorced/separated/never married</td><td align="char">1.41</td><td align="left">[0.74–2.68]</td><td align="char">0.90</td><td align="left">[0.48–1.66]</td><td align="char">0.88</td><td align="left">[0.59–1.31]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Widowed</td><td align="char">1.33</td><td align="left">[0.80–2.22]</td><td align="char">0.88</td><td align="left">[0.52–1.48]</td><td align="char">0.82</td><td align="left">[0.60–1.13]</td></tr><tr><td colspan="7" align="left">Religion (rc = Catholic)</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Anglican</td><td align="char">0.88</td><td align="left">[0.63–1.25]</td><td align="char">0.83</td><td align="left">[0.60–1.16]</td><td align="char">0.86</td><td align="left">[0.67–1.11]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Muslim</td><td align="char">1.14</td><td align="left">[0.68–1.92]</td><td align="char">1.02</td><td align="left">[0.59–1.76]</td><td align="char">1.07</td><td align="left">[0.73–1.58]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Pentecostal</td><td align="char">0.92</td><td align="left">[0.49–1.73]</td><td align="char">0.91</td><td align="left">[0.55–1.50]</td><td align="char">0.88</td><td align="left">[0.60–1.30]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> SDA and others</td><td align="char">0.32<sup>**</sup></td><td align="left">[0.15–0.66]</td><td align="char">0.59</td><td align="left">[0.29–1.19]</td><td align="char">0.41<sup>**</sup></td><td align="left">[0.24–0.72]</td></tr><tr><td colspan="7" align="left">Household earnings (rc = farming)</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Wages</td><td align="char">1.05</td><td align="left">[0.74–1.48]</td><td align="char">0.69<sup>*</sup></td><td align="left">[0.50–0.97]</td><td align="char">0.88</td><td align="left">[0.69–1.12]</td></tr><tr><td align="left"> Remittances</td><td align="char">0.98</td><td align="left">[0.57–1.68]</td><td align="char">1.21</td><td align="left">[0.79–1.86]</td><td align="char">1.13</td><td align="left">[0.80–1.59]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Learnt a trade or technical skill (rc = no)</td><td align="char">1.14</td><td align="left">[0.82–1.59]</td><td align="char">1.34</td><td align="left">[0.91–1.98]</td><td align="char">1.17</td><td align="left">[0.93–1.49]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Household owns bicycle (rc = no)</td><td align="char">0.77</td><td align="left">[0.59–1.00]</td><td align="char">1.03</td><td align="left">[0.75–1.42]</td><td align="char">0.90</td><td align="left">[0.73–1.11]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Self-reported NCDs (rc = no)</td><td align="char">1.33</td><td align="left">[0.92–1.93]</td><td align="char">2.06<sup>***</sup></td><td align="left">[1.46–2.90]</td><td align="char">1.69<sup>***</sup></td><td align="left">[1.31–2.17]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Disabled (rc = no)</td><td align="char">3.06<sup>***</sup></td><td align="left">[2.18–4.31]</td><td align="char">2.17<sup>***</sup></td><td align="left">[1.59–2.96]</td><td align="char">2.51<sup>***</sup></td><td align="left">[1.98–3.18]</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Gender (rc = men)</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="char">1.71***</td><td align="left">[1.29–2.27]</td></tr><tr><td colspan="7" align="left">
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