Adaptation of a social vulnerability index for measuring social frailty among East African women

• Main Authors: Sandeep Prabhu (Author), George Wanje (Author), Brenda Oyaro (Author), Francis Otieno (Author), Kishor Mandaliya (Author), Walter Jaoko (Author), R. Scott McClelland (Author), Wayne McCormick (Author), Melissa K. Andrew (Author), Frances M. Aunon (Author), Jane M. Simoni (Author), Susan M. Graham (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The number of older women living with HIV in Africa is growing, and their health outcomes may be adversely impacted by social frailty, which reflects deficits in social resources that accumulate over the lifespan. Our objective was to adapt a Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) orig...