With today's lower mortality rates, longer expectations of life, and new medical technologies, the nation's health policy focus has shifted from emphasis on individual survival to emphasis on personal health and independent living. Using longitudinal data sets and new methodological techniques, researchers have begun to assess active life expectancies, estimating not only how long a subpopulation can expect to live beyond each age, but what fractions of the expected remaining lifetime will be lived as independent, dependent, or institutionalized. New ideas are addressed, applying recently developed multistate life table methods to Waves One and Two of the Massachusetts Health Care Panel Study. Expectations of active life are presented for those 65 and older who initially are in one of two functional states of well-being. Included are expectations of life, for those, for example, who were independent and remained so, or those who were dependent and became independent. Although public health officials are concerned about the number of elderly who cease being independent, preliminary analysis shows that a significant number of the dependent elderly regain their independence, a situation which needs to be addressed in health care planning.
Pedestrian fatalities caused by motor vehicles in King County, WA, over a 12-month period were reviewed to examine the potential for prevention by various strategies. Cases were identified through the King County Medical Examiner's Office. Between Ap...
A univariate and multivariate analysis of factors associated with suicide for residents of the State of Maryland was conducted. The investigation was statistically oriented in its approach, examining the relationships of age, race, sex, marital statu...
The health status of Indian teenagers in the United States is below that of the general population. The usual barriers to the use of health care services that young people, including young Indians, encounter are compounded in rural areas by distance,...
The nation's supply of family physicians as estimated by the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee appears fairly accurate. At the same time, the demands for family physicians appear to be strong, partially because case-management sy...
Mahoney, M C; Michalek, A M; Cummings, K M; Hanley, J; Snyder, R L;
Published Date:
1989 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(3):279-285
Description:
The determination of years of potential life lost (YPLL) can aid in monitoring changes in premature mortality among various population groups. While premature mortality has been shown to differ among blacks and whites, patterns of YPLL have not been ...
Howe, H L; Wolfgang, P E; Burnett, W S; Nasca, P C; Youngblood, L;
Published Date:
1989 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(3):251-256
Description:
In November 1985, the New York State Department of Health was altered to extraordinary concentrations of asbestos leachate in the drinking water in the Town of Woodstock. Concentrations of 3.2 million fibers per liter (MFL) to 304.5 MFL were found, d...
Lefebvre, R C; Lasater, T H; McKinlay, S M; Gans, K M; Walker, N; Carleton, R A;
Published Date:
1989 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(3):266-270
Description:
Four experiments were conducted to assess the precision and accuracy of the Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics Reflotron, an instrument that is being adopted by many public health groups to conduct blood cholesterol screening programs. Our study is one ...
Women's access to prenatal nutrition services was explored using a nationally representative sample of pregnant participants in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) in 1984. The probability was examined of the ...
In order to characterize the children who enter emergency shelters in Boston, we reviewed the data collected at intake interviews by the pediatric nurse practitioner visiting 10 family shelters and one hotel in Boston as part of the Boston Health Car...
To examine correlates and childhood predictors of serum total cholesterol in adolescence, measures of growth, development, and obesity were related to serum total cholesterol levels of youths aged 12-17 years in the National Health Examination Survey...
The Mental Health Services for the Homeless Block Grant Program has made available more than $57 million to the States in fiscal years 1987-89 to encourage States to develop and strengthen community services for homeless mentally ill persons. Funds w...
Weisman, C S; Celentano, D D; Teitelbaum, M A; Klassen, A C;
Published Date:
1989 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(3):209-214
Description:
The reported practices and recommendations of primary care physicians with regard to cancer screening of elderly patients (65 years and older) were studied in a 1987 survey of 400 Maryland physicians. More than 90 percent of physicians in four specia...
Because of the rising percentage of elderly in the population and the cost of health care expenditures, interest has increased in preventive health care services for the aging. Although the effectiveness of such programs is still being discussed by p...
The Disabilities Prevention Program builds on traditional Centers for Disease Control (CDC) strengths in public health surveillance, epidemiology, and technology transfer to State and local governments in translating the findings of research into pre...
Magura, S; Grossman, J I; Lipton, D S; Amann, K R; Koger, J; Gehan, K;
Published Date:
1989 May-Jun
Source:
Public Health Rep. 104(3):231-240
Description:
The authors examined the factors associated with methadone patients' decisions about participating in a clinic-based AIDS prevention protocol. Despite the offer of incentives, only 27 percent attended AIDS education and only 12 percent obtained volun...
Little is known of the extent to which helper networks of frail older persons change over time and what factors are associated with change. Few national estimates of the scope of change exist to aid policy planners. This study provides national estim...
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). Division of Vital Statistics.
Published Date:
December 4, 2020
Series:
National health statistics reports ; no. 148
Description:
Introduction—Increasingly, residential care communities (RCCs) are becominga source of care for older adults with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Nationally in 2016, 41.9% of RCC residents were diagnosed with dementia. This report examin...
Data from surveys of the elderly are used by policy analysts to design health services programs. Consequently, the quality of survey data on elderly respondents has important implications for this growing segment of society: improving the quality of ...
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
Published Date:
June 15, 2020
Series:
Coronavirus Disease 2020 (COVID-19)
File Type:
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