... among others,
considering that healthcare workers need to become
familiar with these documents, so that they can preserve
the rights of the elderly population.
HEALTH PROMOTION FOR THE
ELDERLY: ... source in order to achieve the proposed objective, such as Health Promotion Letters, Gerontology and Nursing themes. The
need for nurses to remain alert for issues of h...
...
Health Promotion for the Elderly in Peru, Bolivia
and Chile
SONIA VASQUEZ
THESIS FOR DEGREE OF MASTER IN HEALTH PROMOTION
SPRING 2005
HANDLEDARE: ... series of Master theses in Public Health
These reports come from the Board of Education in Public Health
Sciences at Karolinska Institutet.
The master education of Public...
... reimbursement by the healthcare system for the
time and effort they spent on health promotion [“I must say,
I think it’s all about the money. If the GP gets additional
money for health promotion advice, ... health promotion in the elderly
F. Barriers for GPs to provide health promotion in the elderly
G. Barriers for patients to accept health promotion i...
... Behavior
The ultimate goal of the Reasoned Action Theory is to predict. The theory holds that the
intentions of the behavior affect the behavior. The three main variables that affect the
intention ... the other
two. The Social Cognitive Theory includes several auxiliary concepts for each of the three
main concepts in order to explain the theory. Table 3 explains...
... designed
for two levels of use: one for clinical health professionals and
the other for the general elderly population. For the clinical
health professionals, Butler offers a diagnostic tool for man-
aging ... responsibility for the users.
Their levels of intervention are diagnostic and therapeutic,
and the platform is designed to facilitate and optimize their
work....
... responsible for transferring the
data from the WSN to the Stargate. On the Stargate the serial forwarder application
sends this data to the Ethernet port. It uses TCP port 9000 to allow other applications ... with the
full gamut of healthcare information technologies. Figure 1 below sets out the
Analytical Framework which is described in the following sections.
Impr...
... crises foreshadowed in current trends. The na-
tion must either slow the rate of growth of health care
spending on the elderly or find ways to pay for the addi-
tional care.
• SLOW THE GROWTH OF HEALTH ... is the driving
force behind the long-term rise of health care spending.
In a survey of fifty leading health economists in 1995, 81
percent agreed with the statemen...
... that laid the foundation for thinking about
integration frameworks. Leutz developed five “laws” of integration based on the experience of
reform efforts in the UK and the United States. They draw ... comprehensive in
their scope. Notwithstanding their differences, there is congruence across the frameworks in
most of their key elements. Among the key elements of the framewo...
... commissioning
all the primary care in their localities.
There have been calls for the Health Action Zones to be integrated with PCTs.
The next step in the government’s thinking is the establishment ... want to do things
for others and find it difficult to
think what they want others to do
for them. It is sometimes difficult
getting people to use up their time
credits. But then...
... capita, the general price level,
the ratio of health sector to general price levels, and the residual term. Forecasting the
growth of health expenditures then becomes a problem of forecasting the ... possible reason for the
rapid increases in post-acute care expenses among the elderly in the United States could
be the relaxation of Medicare rules for the use of...