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Alternative Title:
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Corporate Authors:
United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General. ; Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
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Conference Authors:
Surgeon General's Workshop on Health Promotion and Aging (1988 March : Washington, DC)
Description:
The "Surgeon General's Workshop on Health Promotion and Aging" met in Washington, D.C., in March 1988 to help define unmet health promotion needs for the aging. Cosponsored by the Administration on Aging, the Public Health Service*, the Brookdale Foundation, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the workshop provided the health professional community with recommendations and proposals for health promotion activities that directly address the needs of the elderly.

The workshop emphasized preventive health services, medications, dental health, injury prevention, mental health, alcohol, smoking cessation, nutrition, and physical fitness and exercise. These topics were selected because 1) scientific information is sufficient to identify actions necessary to make positive impacts, 2) constituencies are available to implement recommendations, and 3) substantial interest in the topic areas exists. Experts were commissioned to produce papers on these nine topics (3), and working groups at the workshop used these background papers in their deliberations. The resulting 365 recommendations (4) were organized by topic under the general headings of education and training, research, service, and policy.


Subjects:
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Aged Aged, 80 And Over Alcohol Drinking Alcoholism Cardiovascular Diseases Community Health Services Dose-Response Relationship, Drug Female Health Promotion Humans Male Research
Source:
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report. 1989; 38(22):385-8.
Pubmed ID:
2498628
Document Type:
Journal Article
Name as Subject:
United States. Public Health Service.
Genre:
Conference Publications
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Guidelines and Recommendations Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855
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