Public health and aging / edited by Tom Hickey, Marjorie A. Speers, Thomas R. Prohaska.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

xxii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The public health paradigm / Robert L. Kane -- Understanding the aging and public health networks / Alan L. Balsam and Carolyn L. Bottum -- Behavioral, social, and socioenvironmental factors adding years to life and life to years / George A. Kaplan -- Issues of resource allocation in an aging society / Robert H. Binstock -- Variability in disease manifestations in older adults : implications for public and community health programs / Robert B. Wallace -- Disability outcomes of chronic disease and their implications for public health / Marcel E. Salive and Jack M. Guralnik -- Evidence of modifiable risk factors in older adults as a basis for health promotion and disease prevention programs / Gilbert S. Omenn ... [et al.] -- Integrating research into program planning and development / Terrie Wetle -- Surveillance, needs assessment, and evaluation / Susan L. Hughes -- Conceptual, measurement, and analytical issues in assessing health status in older populations / Anita L. Stewart and Ron D. Hays -- Heterogeneity and multiple risk factors in aging populations : implications for research / Pearl S. German and Sam Shapiro -- On the economic analysis of interventions for aged populations / Ronald J. Ozminkowski and Laurence G. Branch -- Postponing disability : identifying points of decline and potential intervention / S. Jay Olshansky and Mark A. Rudberg -- Aging, bioethics, and public health : issues at the intersection of three multidisciplinary fields / Rosalie A. Kane -- Implications of an aging society for the preparation of public health professionals / Thomas R. Prohaska and Steven P. Wallace -- Implications of an aging society for the organization and evaluation of public health services / Elizabeth A. Kutza -- Toward a synthesis of a public health agenda for an aging society / Ronald Andersen and Nadereh Pourat.

Includes bibliographical references and index