ABSTRACT
International debate on the policy challenges associated with the health of ageing populations in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has intensified in recent years. The recommendations, echoed in a recent United Nations report on the right to health of older persons. SSA health sector strategies give priority to reduce the rates of child and maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Building on the proposed global monitoring framework for noncommunicable diseases (NCD) proposed by the WHO together with developing a body on 'ageing and health' modelled on the WHO Information and Accountability. Individual states pledge relevant measures as part of national health sector plans and broader national policy frameworks on ageing The 'Health Access and Livelihood' framework provides a useful starting point for and can be further refined. Subjective measures of individual economic well-being, as employed in recent US and Latin American research may be useful alternatives. However, measures of social status, based on occupational and educational class as used in industrialized countries.
