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Global health and global aging
- Title
- Global health and global aging / Mary Robinson ... [et al.], editors ; foreword by Robert N. Butler.
- Publication
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Robinson, Mary, 1944-
- Description
- xxiii, 373 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Jossey-Bass health care series.
- Alternative Title
- Global health & aging
- Subjects
- Note
- "This is the third in the series of books on global health"--P. xiii.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- World policies on aging and the United Nations / Alexandre Siderenko -- Population aging : a global overview / Mary Beth Weinberger --The World Health Organization and global aging / Alex Kalache -- Leadership and governance challenges for global health and aging / Derek Yach -- Perception of aging in different cultures / Frank Eyetsemitan -- Healthy aging in Denmark? / Bjarne Hastrup -- Challenges of longevity in France : the International Longevity Centre-France perspective / Françoise Forette and Marie-Anne Brieu -- Healthy aging in Finland / Pekka Puska -- Healthy aging in Germany / Ulla Schmidt -- Healthy aging from seventy to over one hundred in Germany : lessons from the Berlin Aging Study / Jacqui Smith and Paul Baltes -- Challenges of productive Aging in Japan / Shigeo Morioka -- Healthy aging in the Netherlands / C.I.J.M. Ross-van Dorp -- Aging in Spain : working toward creating new rights in the welfare state / José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero -- Health and aging in Sweden / Barbro Westerholm -- Aging in the United Kingdom / Sally Greengross -- Healthy aging in the United States / Jeanette Takamura -- Health and aging in Africa / Nana Araba Apt -- Aging of populations : is China's pattern unique? / Lincoln Chen and Lingling Zhang --Health and aging in India / Sharad D. Gokhale -- Health and aging in the eastern Mediterrean region / Mohamed H. El-Banouby -- Health and aging in Russia / Vladimir Kh. Khavinson and Olga N. Mikhailova -- Health and aging in Latin America and the Caribbean / Enrique Vega -- The biology of aging : current research and expected future gains / George Martin and Joshua Lederberg -- Exceptional longevity / Thomas Perls and Dellara Terry -- Cities, sociodiversity, and strategy / Jaime Lerner -- Creating a healthy environment for aging populations / Gloria M. Gutman -- How government, business, and social sector partnerships can finance programs for the aging / A. James Forbes, Jr. -- Policies and practices affecting health and longevity of people with disabilities : lessons from the United Kingdom / Hector Medora and Angela Hassiotis -- Keeping people active : continuing education programs that work / Julia Preece and Brian Findsen -- Longevity's impact on retirement security / C. Robert Henrikson -- Improving health care in America : lessons learned from the global village / William D. Novelli -- Epilogue : the road ahead / Erik Olsen.
- Call Number
- JBE 08-1767
- ISBN
- 9780787988104 (cloth)
- 0787988103 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2007026852
- OCLC
- 147478591
- Title
- Global health and global aging / Mary Robinson ... [et al.], editors ; foreword by Robert N. Butler.
- Imprint
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Jossey-Bass health care series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Robinson, Mary, 1944-
- Cover Title
- Global health & aging
- Research Call Number
- JBE 08-1767