Racial and ethnic differences in the health of older Americans /
Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago. Although survival has improved for all racial and ethnic groups, strong differences persist, both in life expectancy and in the causes of disability and death at older a...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1997.
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| Shrnutí: | Older Americans, even the oldest, can now expect to live years longer than those who reached the same ages even a few decades ago. Although survival has improved for all racial and ethnic groups, strong differences persist, both in life expectancy and in the causes of disability and death at older ages. This volume examines trends in mortality rates and selected causes of disability (cardiovascular disease, dementia) for older people of different racial and ethnic groups. The determinants of these trends and differences are also investigated, including differences in access to health care and experiences in early life, diet, health behaviors, genetic background, social class, wealth and income. Groups often neglected in analyses of national data, such as the elderly Hispanics and Asian Americans of different origin and immigrant generations, are compared. The volume provides understanding of research bearing on the health status and survival of the fastest-growing segment of the American population. |
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| Popis jednotky: | Revised versions of some of the papers originally presented at a workshop held Dec. 1994 in Washington. |
| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations |
| Médium: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0585030138 9780585030135 1280192291 9781280192296 9786610192298 6610192294 0309553067 9780309553063 9780309175562 0309175569 0309054893 9780309054898 |