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Smart and age-friendly cities in russia: An exploratory study of attitudes, perceptions, quality of life and health information needs

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dc.contributor.author Ziganshina L.E.
dc.contributor.author Yudina E.V.
dc.contributor.author Talipova L.I.
dc.contributor.author Sharafutdinova G.N.
dc.contributor.author Khairullin R.N.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-26T20:40:49Z
dc.date.available 2021-02-26T20:40:49Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.issn 1661-7827
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/163098
dc.description.abstract © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. In Russia, initiatives for healthy ageing have been growing over the last two decades; however, none use an evidence-based (EB) approach. It is proposed that Kazan, a city with a population of over a million in the European part of Russia, has good chances of moving towards age-friendliness and contributing to raising awareness about healthy ageing through Cochrane evidence. One of the eight essential features of age-friendly cities by the World Health Organisation (WHO) directly points to health services. This exploratory study assesses the health information needs of the ageing population of Kazan and the challenges people face in improving their health and longevity. Survey data were used from 134 participants, patients, caregivers and healthcare providers of the Interregional Clinical Diagnostic Centre (ICDC), aged from 30 to over 80 years, and potential associations of the studied parameters with age, gender, quality of life and other characteristics were analysed. Older people (60+) were less positive about their quality of life, took medicines more often on a daily basis (10/16 compared to 29/117 of people under 60), encountered problems with ageing (9/16 compared to 21/117 of people under 60) and rated their quality of life as unsatisfactory (4/14 compared to 9/107 of people under 60). Awareness of EB approaches and Cochrane was higher within health professions (evidence-based medicine: 42/86 vs. 13/48; Cochrane: 32/86 vs. 2/48), and health information needs did not differ between age or gender groups or people with a satisfactory and unsatisfactory quality of life. The minority (10%—13/134) were aware of ageism without age or gender differences. The low awareness calls for the need of Cochrane intervention both for consumers and those in the health profession to raise awareness to contribute to Kazan moving towards an age-friendly city.
dc.relation.ispartofseries International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.subject Age-friendly cities
dc.subject Ageing
dc.subject Ageism
dc.subject Awareness
dc.subject Cochrane
dc.subject Consumers
dc.subject Evidence-based
dc.subject Health information
dc.subject Kazan
dc.subject Medicines
dc.subject Quality of life
dc.subject Russia
dc.title Smart and age-friendly cities in russia: An exploratory study of attitudes, perceptions, quality of life and health information needs
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-issue 24
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 17
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.relation.startpage 1
dc.source.id SCOPUS16617827-2020-17-24-SID85097566513


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    Коллекция содержит публикации сотрудников Казанского федерального (до 2010 года Казанского государственного) университета, проиндексированные в БД Scopus, начиная с 1970г.

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