Qualitative studies on wellbeing in developing countries, including Ethiopia, Thailand, Peru and Bangladesh, highlight the same themes and determinants of wellbeing found in the Ugandan study group.
Taking London as a case study, where older citizens have free access to a relatively extensive public transport network through a Freedom Pass, we explore from a public health perspective the mechanisms that link this travel benefit to determinants of wellbeing.
No reference to, or understanding of, the link between health, social care, housing, neighbourhood, transport, employment, deprivation and other determinants of wellbeing is evident.
According to the Resolution Foundation report, the statistics show the most important determinants of wellbeing to be good health, a job and a partner.
To identify suitable measures, managers need to understand how different dimensions of equality impinge on the determinants of wellbeing and performance.
But as the author and academic Michael Marmot's groundbreaking 2010 report, Fair Society Healthy Lives, has shown, many of the most important determinants of wellbeing have nothing to do with personal choice or destiny.
Research by the University of Brighton and others has shown that levels of social interaction are one of the biggest determinants of wellbeing in old age, more important even than physical health, and a vital part of helping people to live independently for longer.
The major determinants of wellbeing based on the survey's results are a sense of purpose in life, financial security, and strong personal relationships.
Thus, the generalizability of findings from urban studies about the determinants of wellbeing and the efficacy of health interventions for remote populations remain unknown.
With a high level of retention, this number of participants will be adequate for modelling the determinants of wellbeing in women living with BC.
