... expected that the changes in thehealth of the elderly have important consequences for the further demand for health services, the need for long-term careand also for the development of health expenditures ... expenditures But other trends could also be essential to determining the extent and structure of the demand for healthcareandhealth expenditures In the case of longterm care, there are other important ... than in the case of acute healthcare Therefore, besides the ageing process, the developments in population health status and disability influences further demand for healthand long-term care services...
... funded research and development center sponsored by OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, andthe defense Intelligence ... Pot, the Vietnamese quickly wore out their welcome With the support of Thailand (and others further abroad), the Khmer Rouge reconstituted itself as a significant insurgency, and several other ... factors minus the bad factors, andthe outcome of the case.5 The good and bad factors summed are the same as those listed in Table S.1 So, for instance, the very first row presents the post-Soviet...
... Medicare and on total healthcare spending for the elderly.6 Some studies have suggested that the improving health of the elderly will moderate fiscal pressures on Medicare.7 The 2000 Medicare ... improving.2-4 The coming influx of the baby-boom generation into Medicare andthe projected depletion of the Medicare trust fund by 20295 have raised interest in the effects of trends in longevity andhealth ... health, life expectancy, andhealthcare spending l ife expectancy among the elderly has been improving for many decades,1 and there is evidence that thehealth of the elderly has...
... U.S.-Turkish discord On the one hand, the Turks felt they had not been sufficiently compensated for either the support they had given the United States or the economic losses they had incurred as ... century Their partnership was forged in the early days of the Cold War and shaped by the Soviet threat Stalins territorial demands after World War IIincluding demands for a base on the Straits and ... the Soviet Union andthe end of the Cold War, (2) the 1990 1991 Gulf War, and (3) the 2003 U.S invasion of Iraq These three factors have had a profound effect on Turkish security perceptionsand...
... women andthehealth system and to discuss women’s healthcare within the context of their lives It focuses on women’s health status, their health insurance coverage, their use of and access to care, ... some of the challenges they face in their interactions with thehealthcare system The sample of the survey was also expanded to include women 65 and older, a vital and growing segment of the population ... women’s access to careand Chapter presents the key findings on the impact of healthcare costs on women’s access to careand prescription drugs Chapter examines women and their healthcare providers...
... if they are to achieve equality and reach their full potential Americans worry about the inadequacies of their healthcare coverage, its high costs, andthe problems they face in getting thehealth ... planning and medical care as part of a seamless continuum of care for women Women’s HealthandHealthCare Reform Staying Healthy in the Reproductive Years There is a 30-year period during which the ... confidentiality laws will also affect whether they accurately disclose their health history and where they go for services.48 Women’s HealthandHealthCare Reform A new national health plan should assure that...
... buildings and condominiums with damp problems could have their health affected by microbial contamination.35–37) On the other hand, physiological and psychological effects of low humidity and low ... thehealth of residents The regulation of chemical emission from furniture andthe education of residents are required COMMUNICATION BETWEEN MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS AND REGIONAL HEALTH CENTERS The ... efforts should be made to improve thehealth of both of the individuals andthe public REFERENCES 1) Chang, C and Gershwin, M E (2004) Indoor air quality and human health: truth vs mass hysteria...
... nature and culture On the one hand, the biography of an individual is incarnated; on the other hand, the body becomes a part of the biography A person’s body is singular not only from the genetic and ... after birth if the parents agree to that and if they can procreate another child which has a good chance to be healthy.24 The question if the ill child may be happy andthe physically healthy child ... well as the reaction of the 34 Regine Kather environment to their actions Therefore, they express their inner life, consciously and unconsciously, by gestures, motion, look, and sounds The feeling...
... build the trust and rapport they need to feel comfortable discussing their reproductive health concerns Research suggests that many Latinos distrust and may even fear thehealthcare system,10 and ... sexual and reproductive healthcare to know their privacy will be respected andthe confidentiality of their personal information will be protected Due to the sensitive and taboo nature of sexual and ... Usdansky, the staff members at Women’s First Falls Church Healthcare Center, the staff members of The Planned Parenthood Trust of San Antonio and South Central Texas, andthe staff at the Teen and...
... likely to control for the underlying confounding problem and therefore help minimize the endogeneity The full Model F adds in the prior health- status and health- condition variables The coefficient of ... for careand less endogenous in the determination of self-perceived health status Other unobservables associated with the preperiod health status in the error term could potentially bias the ... groups: Medicare only, Medicare with some private insurance, Medicare with other public insurance including Medicaid, and Medicare with private and other public insurance The third set of variables...
... dementia and ideation of suicide in the elderly (Devanand et al., 1996; Vannoy et al., 2007) Therefore, healthcare providers need to recognize the factors associated with depression in the institutionalized ... and Japan, the oldest son or daughter of a family traditionally takes care of their elderly parents Today, this tradition is not being practiced to the same extent The nuclear family is now the ... depression Concurrent and discriminant validity of the Korean version of the GDS was established andthe reported Cronbach’s alpha was 90 (Bae & Cho, 2004) Sensitivity and specificity of the Japanese...
... in current trends The nation must either slow the rate of growth of healthcare spending on the elderly or find ways to pay for the additional care • SLOW THE GROWTH OF HEALTHCARE SPENDING Only ... costeffectiveness standards If so, the key question is not, “Shall we it?” but rather, “Who will pay?” If expenditures continue to grow at the same rate as they have in the past, healthcare for the elderly ... to slowing the growth of healthcare spending: (1) reduce the rate of growth of the prices of the resources used in healthcare (for example, squeeze physicians’ incomes); (2) produce the same...
... on the duration of life of one’s mother and father and grandmothers and grandfathers If someone’s grandmothers and grandfathers had lived 80 years, it gives him the chance to live years over the ... andthe elderly“ Together with the quality of life and healthy lifestyles in old age, the most important are premorbid personal characteristics and lifestyle in young and in mature age Even the ... persons to the advantage of the second Lukianov, a Russian scientist, sums up the results of his own and other authors’ studies of the factors influencing healthand longevity He rejects the idea...
... Stanton (RAND) and MAJ Robert Kewley for their reviews of and helpful comments on the report Others at RAND who provided help in the preparation and review of the document include Ken Horn, Leland ... details and full description of the mathematical model at the heart of the IOF Allocator and its implementation are included in Appendixes A and B Here we will cover the details of the data and constraints ... initially unassigned and then tasked on -the- fly during combat, which reduced the time between the tasking andthe mission engagement 4 The Weapons Mix Problem: A Math Model to Quantify the Effects of...
... giver to the elderly and scope for training this lot provide support to the programme Presently Elderly are provided healthcare by the general healthcare delivery system in the country At the primary ... country At the primary care level, the infrastructure is grossly deficient And otherwise thehealth system machinery is geared up to deal with the maternal and child healthand communicable diseases ... of health 1.2 THE VISION, OBJECTIVES & EXPECTED OUTCOME The National Programme for theHealthCare for the Elderly (NPHCE) is an articulation of the International and national commitments of the...
... 95% for the two-tailed test N stands for the number of observations 3.3 Socioeconomic Status andReasons for Delayed HealthCare Table depicts reasons for the delay in seeking healthcareThe statistically ... to healthcare is not assured equally to the elderly despite a universal healthcare system in Japan Under the pressure of curtailing rising healthcare cost, the Ministry of Health, Labor and ... health care) , if they had a regular dentist (regular source of dental care) , if they underwent health check-ups in the past, and if they ever postponed or stopped seeking healthcare in the past year...
... categorised the intensity of the audit and feedback, the complexity of the targeted behaviour, the seriousness of the outcome andthe level of baseline compliance The intensity of the audit and feedback ... Kingdom, five in The Netherlands, four in Denmark and one each in Finland, Sweden and Belgium) nine in Australia, two in Thailand and one in Uganda and Lao.) In most trials thehealth professionals ... They also assessed the impact of the recipient of the information, the format of the information andthe timing of the feedback Studies were included if their design used either a historical or...
... disease and disability The essential inputs to these processes can be identified as people expressing their demand for clinical care, the clinical health workforce and medical technology Together these ... [26,27] To complete the link between healthcare andthe rest of the social system, we also need to add the broader governance structures that link healthcare values to the rest of the social institutional ... perturbation of these networks by disease [31,32] The addition of the concept of 'Policies, Governance and Power' explicitly links the scope of the dynamics of healthandhealthcare to the political...
... where the primary source of data was the district health office andthe district hospital All healthcare providers who not work for the government but have a private practice in which healthcare ... 2006 Here we report the results and discuss the implications for policies for human resources for healthand development of the sector • there was an increase of 680 staff in thehealth sector, more ... contract staff, the total number of health staff has increased There was a small increase in the number of healthcare staff in full-time private practice andthe proportion of the total remained...