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Author: Thomas R. Prohaska (Co-Director, Center for Research on Health and Aging, University of Illinois at Chicago) ,
Lynda A. Anderson (Director, Healthy Aging Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) ,
Robert H. Binstock (Professor, Division of Health Services Research, Case Western Reserve University)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.748kg
ISBN: 9781421404349
ISBN 10: 1421404346
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 10 May 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This is an essential, timely, well-referenced, and thorough update of the subjects covered in Public Health and Aging. * Choice * I would like to recommend it for all pre-entry health practice and policy courses... at the very least it should be a reference text. -- Rhonda Nay * Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health * An extremely well-written, well-researched, and thorough book, with each topic written by experts. It will be extremely useful to researchers, faculty, practitioners, and students alike. -- Sarah J. Olson * Health Promotion Practice * Public Health for an Aging Society is a highly readable volume that captures the essence of public health, introduces the reader to current aging-related challenges, provides direction for addressing those challenges, and offers a glimpse of things to come. After finishing this volume, even the more seasoned among us are likely to have learned something new, to have expanded the way they think about an issue or two, and may even find that their enthusiasm for what we do in public health has been reignited. -- Sara J. McLaughlin * Gerontologist * A current, essential read; a primer for the scholar interested in research and policy setting as they affect the aging individual within a societal framework for public health... Comprehensive, well referenced, and presents a gestalt perspective that illuminates the aged within a public-health framework... Public Health for an Aging Society is a valuable read for academicians, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. It is also valuable for each and every one of us as we move through life and become aware of this growing vulnerable population that needs our assistance for safety and security. -- Julia A. Greenawalt * Activities, Adaptation and Aging *
This is an essential, timely, well-referenced, and thorough update of the subjects covered in Public Health and Aging. * Choice * I would like to recommend it for all pre-entry health practice and policy courses... at the very least it should be a reference text. -- Rhonda Nay * Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health * An extremely well-written, well-researched, and thorough book, with each topic written by experts. It will be extremely useful to researchers, faculty, practitioners, and students alike. -- Sarah J. Olson * Health Promotion Practice * Public Health for an Aging Society is a highly readable volume that captures the essence of public health, introduces the reader to current aging-related challenges, provides direction for addressing those challenges, and offers a glimpse of things to come. After finishing this volume, even the more seasoned among us are likely to have learned something new, to have expanded the way they think about an issue or two, and may even find that their enthusiasm for what we do in public health has been reignited. -- Sara J. McLaughlin * Gerontologist * A current, essential read; a primer for the scholar interested in research and policy setting as they affect the aging individual within a societal framework for public health... Comprehensive, well referenced, and presents a gestalt perspective that illuminates the aged within a public-health framework... Public Health for an Aging Society is a valuable read for academicians, researchers, clinicians, and policy makers. It is also valuable for each and every one of us as we move through life and become aware of this growing vulnerable population that needs our assistance for safety and security. -- Julia A. Greenawalt * Activities, Adaptation and Aging *
Author Information
Thomas R. Prohaska is a professor in the School of Public Health and codirector of the Center for Research on Health and Aging at the Institute for Health Research & Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lynda A. Anderson is director of the Healthy Aging Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an adjunct associate professor at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Robert H. Binstock (1935–2011) was, at the time of his death, a professor of aging, health, and society at Case Western Reserve University, where he taught in the public health program and also in the departments of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics, bioethics, and in the School of Nursing and the College of Arts and Sciences.
