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Medicare prevention — moving toward research-based policy
Author(s)	David Haber
Journal title	Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 13, no 1, 2001
Pages	pp 1-14
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Social policy ; United States of America.
Annotation	Prevention is a small but growing part of Medicare, a US national health insurance programme for people aged 65+ and certain younger disabled people. Since Medicare's enactment in 1965, very little of its budget has provided reimbursement for disease prevention, health promotion or chronic disease management. In 1998, nearly 40 million older adults and disabled people covered by Medicare were eligible for new or expanded prevention benefits. This article is a critique of the existing Medicare prevention package, and offers a series of research and policy recommendations for how these services can continue to be improved. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020624210 A
Classmark	CC: LK2: TM2: 7T
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