Similarly, in Ghana, the households in the wealthiest wealth quintile(WQ) are more likely to use antenatal services and deliver their babies in a health facility, than those in poorer and poorest WQs [29].
The result also reveals that the ratio of the differences between the bottom two quintiles and the top two quintiles was well above 1.0 in eight states, indicating that the difference in MNCH care coverage between the top two (wealthiest and wealthier) wealth quintiles was relatively small compared to the difference between the bottom two (poorest and poorer) wealth quintiles.
Who would invest in a sector where the business model has been so recently and so completely overturned and where the last investors – wealthy sovereign wealth funds – are nursing big losses.
But tech giants are wealthy and wealth comes with advantages, such as lobbying dollars, political donations and the finest legal offense and defense that you can buy.
Nobody begrudges the wealthy their wealth.
"I am immensely wealthy, but wealth has no dominion over me," he tells us.
"I am immensely wealthy, but wealth has no dominion over me," is what he's not-so-subtly saying.
Condom use with occasional partners was generally concentrated amongst the wealthy, but wealth quintiles were particularly important for demonstrating that concentration amongst the wealthy was driven by high use in Q5, with generally low consistent condom use in less wealthy quintiles.
Last but not least, just this week the world's wealthiest sovereign wealth fund Norges announced its divestment from 114 companies with the aim to strengthen its work on responsible investment.
Relative to subjects who were not hypertensive, hypertensive subjects were older (42.2 vs. 38.2 years, p<0.001) and more likely to be male (35.63% vs. 30.48%, p=0.03), less likely to attain a secondary or higher education (44.55% vs. 55.17%, p=0.001), and belonged to the wealthiest household wealth quintile (20.51 vs. 26.64%, p=0.007).
