Socio-economic predictors of chronic diseases in Ghana are not well understood and their influence has been relatively overlooked. This paper seeks to examine the influence of socio-economic predictors of chronic diseases in Ghanaians three different age groups. The data employed in the study were drawn from Global Ageing and Adult Health survey conducted in Ghana by SAGE and was based on the d...

Scholars have approached the study of rabbinic sage stories from a wide range of methodological perspectives, including historical, literary, folkloric and, most recently, cultural studies. Despite this variety of approaches, there exists a broad consensus among scholars on one key issue: sage stories are an essentially aggadic, and therefore non-halakhic, genre. As such, the question of how be...

Rural sage culture is a cultural phenomenon in traditional China. This article explores the emergence and development of rural shrine uses former Henan provincial administrative commissioner Wan Yi’s rituals to 1614 as case study illustrate that Confucian tradition local permeated influenced election society during Ming Dynasty. The abolition imperial examination system at end Qing Dynasty abse...