Factors affecting the frequency of health enhancing behaviors by the elderly.

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• Alternative Title:
  Public Health Rep
• Personal Author:
  Stoller, E P ; Pollow, R
• Description:
  The authors examined the frequency of health-enhancing behaviors practiced by the elderly living in community settings, with emphasis on the impact of disease and disability on the frequency of those practices. Data were collected through personal interviews with a probability sample of 667 respondents in a 4-county region of northeastern New York. Almost all respondents said they engaged in at least one health-enhancing practice on a regular basis. The most commonly reported behaviors involved dietary practices. Results of the analysis support the importance of differentiating among health-enhancing behaviors that are undertaken as primary levels of prevention, in contrast to those undertaken as secondary or tertiary levels of prevention.
• Subjects:
  Aged Aged, 80 And Over Cross-Sectional Studies Diet Disease Female Health Behavior Humans Male Marriage Sex Factors

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• Source:
  Public Health Rep. 109(3):377-389
• Pubmed ID:
  8190861
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMCnull
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 AG07794/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  New York
• Volume:
  109
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Reports
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:02fc020361c144d7c6ec757cf534df2cac798c6ebebdde9599f2f90d90d755e5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/64054/cdc_64054_DS1.pdf
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