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Health Care Reform and Disparities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Health Care Reform and Disparities

This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequity—the root cause of our dysfunctional health care system, and the reason for the rising cost of health care for all Americans. In Health Care Reform and Disparities: History, Hype, and Hope, prolific author Toni P. Miles, MD, PhD, uniquely expands the usual discussion of health disparities by including and emphasizing the voice and perspective of the consumer, and by featuring policy, media, and financing data. Highlighting the subjective experience humanizes the effects of bureaucratic inequity and inefficiency, while examining the f...

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 25, 2005
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 25, 2005

This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics helps readers see the local problem and concern of aging as a global epidemic affecting all areas of the health care workplace. It is written for expert administrative leaders and policymakers who can help make a difference at both local and regional levels.

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 34, 2014
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 34, 2014

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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 31, 2011
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 33, 2013
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 33, 2013

Developed countries and certain regions of economically emerging nations have displaying a rapidly growing population of the oldest-oldónonagenarians, centenarians, and supercentenarians. As this trend continues, we must redirect some of our research on aging to the experience of advanced old age and discovering individual and community factors that improve the quality of life during this life stage. This state-of-the science, multidisciplinary Annual provides a comprehensive discussion of the factors promoting healthy survival and/or ensuring a good quality of life for the oldest elderly. It features an international representation that includes Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherl...

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 35, 2015
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 32, 2012
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 32, 2012

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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 30, 2010
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 30, 2010

A must-have professional reference for researchers and educators in psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health, genetics, medicine, and the biological sciences, this issue of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics discusses how complex biological, behavioral, and social systems interact to create and impact health. This knowledge is essential to maintaining positive health outcomes over the life span and across a variety of populations and settings. With contributions by leading world scientists, this trusted annual volume reviews the current literature and presents examples of how biological factors underlie behavioral factors to impact health in later life. It also offers methods for examining these complex systems of biology and behavior, and explores how social scientists use this information in their research. Key Topics: Genetic and environmental contributions to Alzheimer's disease and age-associated memory changes Vascular depression, including cardiovascular implications for mental health The impact of spirituality on health Family comorbidity and the family context as a source of health Stress and coping Exercise and oxidative damage

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 29, 2009
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 29, 2009

It is increasingly recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics begins with an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of both the Life Span and the Life Course perspectives on health disparities in aging populations, examining them in the context of a changing structure of society. This volume focuses on morbidities in general as well as specific morbidities such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, giving special attention to life-time influences on cognition and functional abilities. Finally, this new volume addresses broader policy issues with relation to Life Span and Life Course perspectives on aging. Key Features: Addresses an important topic of increasing relevance. Addresses the issue of disparities from genes to geography Presents traditional and emerging scientific perspectives

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 27, 2007
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 27, 2007

Though exceptional human longevity has captured the imagination for millennia, it has been only in the past fifteen years or so that some of the secrets to very long lives are finally giving way to scientific inquiry. Written by an international group of experts, this year's review first considers the methodological and design dilemmas faced in conducting centenarian research. It then offers guidance in locating literature and data sources for primary and secondary information on centenarians and the oldest old. This section includes a list of the world's oldest persons and discusses the difficulties in compiling such a list. The remainder of the review is divided in three sections-the biology and genetics of longevity, the behavioral and social predictors of longevity, and methodological issues in qualitative and anthropologic approaches and the study of the very oldest old, supercentenarians, or those who live to 110 years or more. Data is drawn from studies undertaken among populations in diverse parts of the world.