Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
1992 National Mortality Followback Survey
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
1992 National Mortality Followback Survey
Author: Racial Differences in Life Expectancy Among Elderly African Americans and Whites
Author: Laura B. ShresthaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000526763
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
First published in 1997. This book is based on the author’s dissertation written while a student in the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The catalyst for the research was the recognition that major uncertainties exist about the quality of population and death data for the elderly in the United States as a result of coverage and content errors in the censuses and death registration. Furthermore, different patterns appear to exist for the two major racial groupings in the United States: whites and African- Americans. The book evaluates the consistency of reported data between the two major sources of data for calculation of mortality statistics in the United States: censuses and death registration. The focus is on the older population (aged 60 and above), where mortality trends have the greatest impact on social programs and where data quality is most problematic.
The Graying of Nations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1622
Book Description
A Good Dying
Author: Joan K. HarroldPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789003997
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A Good Dying: Shaping Health Care for the Last Months of Life examines the critical issues of improving the quality of health care for end-of-life patients. You'll gain valuable suggestions and ideas for creating and maintaining policies that pertain to individuals with various diagnoses, family structures, and personal needs. A Good Dying provides methods and examples that will help managers of health care focus on the needs of patients and make their last days as comfortable as possible. Emphasizing the need for further education of health care professionals and the need for additional research, A Good Dying offers possible solutions to the many barriers of improving conditions for the dying. You will be able to directly apply the information in this book to fulfill and understand the needs of dying patients. Specific topics covered include: -- portraying death and dying through art and using examples that show how death can be perceived as either noble or dehumanizing -- emphasizingthe benefits and conditions of life in hospice care -- educating physicians on the topics of pain management and making patients aware of pain relief treatments -- examining challenges to pain management -- evaluating the adequacy and completeness of individual health care -- measuring quality of life at the end of life by examining the physical and emotional pain of the patient, financial and emotional effects on the patient's family, provider continuity, and advanced care planning With contributions from physicians, patients, families, nurses, chaplains, and insurers, the chapters in A Good Dying offer you several different perspectives on strategies and policies needed toenhance the quality of life for the dying. You'll receive innovative ideas, program models, and strategies for evaluating policies designed to help patients, enabling you to offer better patient care. Complete with current data an
Public Health Reports
Author: Health Services Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audio-visual materials
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1991
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description