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| Health and mortality among elderly populations | | Author(s) | Graziella Caselli, Alan D Lopez |
| Corporate Author | International Union for the Scientific Study of Population - IUSSP |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996 |
| Pages | 360 pp (International Studies in Demography) |
| Source | Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford. OX2 6DP. |
| Keywords | Life expectancy tables ; Death rate [statistics] ; Health [elderly] ; Ageing process ; Social trends ; Social policy ; International. |
| Annotation | This volume pinpoints the most recent worldwide trends in the survival of older people and in their physical and mental health, and describes possible scenarios for the early decades of the twenty-first century. The first section asks at what age people become 'elderly', and examines the application of evolutionary theory to demographic models of human mortality. The second section, on trends and determinants of health status, looks at different aspects of morbidity and mortality trends and their underlying causes. The third section deals with mortality projections, ranging from hypotheses to problems of methodology. The final section covers strategies and policies on formal and informal care, and on provision of social and health care services for older people. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970512005 B |
| Classmark | S7: S5: CC: BG: TM3: TM2: 72 |
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