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Falls and fractures
— a literature review and Welsh perspective | | Author(s) | Gareth Morgan |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 17, no 4, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 170-178 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Falls ; Fractures ; Preventative medicine ; Literature reviews ; Wales. |
| Annotation | This paper draws from the published literature on falls and fractures, and combines this with the professional experience of the author in Wales. Epidemiological calculations are presented using readily available data and summarised diagrammatically. The paper has three main elements. The first is to present some of the epidemiological considerations of this situation. The second is to describe some of the risk factors, and, by extension, the interventions that might be helpful. Third, the paper describes a case study on the Welsh situation. Falls and fractures constitute a significant public health challenge, due to the number of individuals affected and the seriousness of impacts. Risk factors, such as vitamin D deficiency, are open to modification and interventions such as exercise are also helpful. In Wales, policy could be geared to improving the response to this, such as an expansion of cost saving fracture liaison services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150529229 A |
| Classmark | OLF: CUF: LK2: 64A: 9 |
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