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| Preventive health care in elderly people needs rethinking | | Author(s) | Dee Mangin, Kieran Sweeney, Iona Heath |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 335 no 7614, 11 August 2007 |
| Pages | pp 285-287 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Medical care ; Preventative medicine ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Medical workers. |
| Annotation | Preventive health care aims to delay the onset of illness and disease and to prevent untimely and premature deaths. However, concerns about equity in access to treatments have focused on ageism. This can result in preventative interventions being encouraged regardless of age, which can be harmful to the patient and expensive for the health service. The authors of this article call for an urgent reappraisal of the relationships between age discrimination, distributive justice, quality, and length of life. A more sophisticated model is needed to assess the benefits and harms of preventive treatments for older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070814218 A |
| Classmark | LK: LK2: TOB: QT * |
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