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As children survive: dilemmas of aging in the developing world.
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This paper examines the dilemma, and spells out the issues by examining several chronic diseases in detail, and concludes with suggestions for a policy-oriented research agenda aimed at the development of affordable and humane approaches to the health needs of aging populations, and the prevention and care of Chronic diseases in the developing world.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1989-01-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Health policy.read more
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Institutional ageism in global health policy
TL;DR: Peter G Lloyd-Sherlock and colleagues argue that a focus on premature mortality is discriminating against the needs of a growing older population.
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Postmodernism, Rationality and the Evaluation of Health Care
TL;DR: The authors examines the logic of evaluation of health care services, calling into question the possibility of assessing the extent to which medicine and health care systems are rational or irrational, by recourse to Weber's distinction between formal and substantive rationalities.
Utilization of health and medical services: factors influencing health care seeking behaviour and unmet health needs in rural areas of Kenya
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" and "uncertainty" in the context of education.iii.iiiiii.
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Prevalence of hypertension and obesity among women over age 25 in a low income area in Karachi, Pakistan.
TL;DR: Possible suggested interventions include diet education and weight monitoring by the community health workers using an individualized weight card adding on to the already established primary health care (PHC) system addressing mother and child health (MCH) problems.
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Knowledge of, attitudes toward, and barriers to cancer control and screening among primary care physicians in Egypt: The need for postgraduate medical education
TL;DR: The importance of smoking, diet, and early detection of common cancer types should receive more attention in the undergraduate medical curriculum of Egypt.
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Why Survive? Being Old in America
TL;DR: This paper argued that modern medicine has created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive, and proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America.
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Abnormalities in Plasma and Cerebrospinal-Fluid Arginine Vasopressin in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa
TL;DR: Most if not all patients with anorexia nervosa have abnormal levels of arginine vasopressin in their plasma and cerebrospinal fluid that are corrected very slowly with weight gain.
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Shattuck Lecture--health care in the developing world: problems of scarcity and choice.
TL;DR: The problems of putting the objective of health for all through primary health care into practice is described along with what may be feasible on the very limited budget available in most developing countries.
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Paying for Health Services in Developing Countries: An Overview
TL;DR: It is argued that present policies need to be substantially reoriented in many countries, and there appears to be considerable scope for having users bear a larger share of health care costs, preferably through a combination of fees for services and fees for coverage, rather than either alone.