... education is the most important condi-
tion in predicting health, other circumstances external to the sub-
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Table ... de 2000
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS, HEALTH AND SATISFACTION AMONG THE ELDERLY: SOME EMPIRICAL RESULTS
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Tra d i t i o n a l ly, age has...
...
background
Life expectancy among the elderly has been improving for many decades, and there is
evidence that health among the elderly is also improving. We estimated the relation of
health status at 70 ...
health, life expectancy, and health care spending
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ife expectancy among the elderly
has been improving for many decades,
1
and there is evidence tha...
... DI
benefits tend to overstate their health problems. The size of the effect is, however, more pronounced
then the results found in table 1a and the results vary more strongly across the different specifications.
To ... between the work related health concept and the true health concept and H
OG
and Y
2
will be included in the error term and it is likley th...
... present use, and the
more methodologically sophisticated the study, and the greater the reliability and validity of its
measures, the more accurate are the prevalence estimates. These data cannot, ... ways by the
study sites, the sources of the sample and sample selection methods, and the measures used to assess
alcohol and other drug use.
Until recently, infor...
... hospitals, health researchers,
regional health authorities and the
Ministries of Health Services and
Health Planning.
prevention of falls and injuries among the elderly
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1. Introduction
The Provincial ... treating
the broken hip or the fractured wrist and
neglecting to investigate and manage the
cause of the fall and prevent subsequent
falls. To furt...
... size
was341cases. The multistagesamplingtechnique
was used to select the elderly from each of the
target6villagesobtainedfrom the 3districtsof the
northern,central and southernpartof the province.
The research instrument ... on
HPB among the elderlywasfound.
Regarding the results of the study,
recommendationsareasfollows:
1. Health promoting b...
... dentition. WHO and FDI have
set the goal for the oral health of those aged 65 and older to achieve so that there are at least
50% with 20 and more teeth by the year 2000 (WHO 1982). Among elderly ... et al. 2008). Among adults in
the UK the increase has been from 78% to 98% among women and from 64% to 74% among
men between 1978 and 1998 (Kelly et al. 2000). In...
... causality, the elderly with good
health and well-being are able to adopt and maintain
healthy behaviors. There is a need for further investiga-
tion to better assess these associations. Another limita-
tion ... evidence of the effects of health-
related behaviors on health, little is known regarding
the association between these behaviors and different
aspects of quality of...
... Support Policy on Health among the Elderly
There have been only a handful of studies that directly estimate the causal effects of income transfer
policies on the health of the elderly. These have ... examined the health effects of SSI looked at whether the implementation of the
program had any affect on health. Taubman and Sickles (1983) used the Retirement Histo...
... performance and health status on hedonic
ratings and intake of the elderly
The detection and identification scores of the elderly
were explored further, revealing an association between the
scores and the ... only), 25, 50, 75 and
100% consumed of the total amount. The subjects were also
asked to mark the time and meal context in which they ate it.
The data on...