Assessing the Indispensable Routine Health Behaviors and Social Economic Classes of Senior Citizens for Living Longer: A Case Study of Rwanda
Abstract
Rwanda is land-locked small country located in east-central Africa
Land area of 26,338 km2.
Highly populated country with estimation 11.55million population in 2016, with 447 sqkm2 inhabitant (NISR, 2016).
The socio-economic statuses of a household is directly proportional to the household income (Patel et al., 2020).
Rwanda social protection has used home grown solutions to categorize citizens based on social economic status through the system known as “ubudehe” (Ezeanya-Esiobu, 2017).
Four (4) social classes have been identified comprising
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