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Developing policies for health promotion and preventive care for older people
— Preventative Services for Older People and Community Care seminar 1996 | | Corporate Author | Special Interest Group in Health Promotion and Preventive Care, British Geriatrics Society - BGS |
| Journal title | Ageing and Health: the Journal of the Institute of Ageing and Health (West Midlands), no 2, Spring 1997 |
| Pages | pp 12-15 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Geriatricians ; Policy. |
| Annotation | The International Association of Gerontology saw the preparation of preventive measures for age related diseases as one the main tasks of geriatric medicine in its report to the decade of the United Nations World Assembly on Ageing in 1993. In 1994, the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) set a new `Health for all by the year 2000' target, with four dimensions: ensuring equity in health; adding life to years; adding health to life; and adding years to life. This article sets the context for the formation of a British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Special Interest Group in Health Promotion and Preventive Care. In addition to the previously mentioned international initiatives, it also draws on the `Health of the nation' key areas, as the basis for developing a new BGS policy on health promotion and preventive health care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980325214 A |
| Classmark | CC: LK2: QT4: QAD |
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