Journal article
Epidemiology and aging: how gerontology has changed noncommunicable disease epidemiology in the United States of America
World health statistics quarterly, Vol.45(1), pp.75-79
1992
PMID: 1413860
Abstract
Epidemiology is a continuously evolving discipline that has been greatly enriched by addressing the health problems of the elderly. In the United States of America, this has resulted in a large national data resource of functional and health measures on older populations, heretofore not available. In this article, suggestions are made for research priorities in the next 10 years in the epidemiological study of the elderly. They include: (i) a special emphasis on enhancing analytical methods, particularly for complex longitudinal data; (ii) an effort to understand the impact of the physiochemical environment on older persons, both in the household and workplace setting; (iii) the identification of new ways to determine early life exposures among older persons, so that hypotheses about early influences on aging processes can be tested; and (iv) a general effort to include function status and other geriatric measures as a routine part of the clinical record, so that secondary research on such records can be more conveniently performed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Epidemiology and aging: how gerontology has changed noncommunicable disease epidemiology in the United States of America
- Creators
- R B Wallace - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- World health statistics quarterly, Vol.45(1), pp.75-79
- PMID
- 1413860
- NLM abbreviation
- World Health Stat Q
- ISSN
- 0379-8070
- Grant note
- AG-2106 / NIA NIH HHS AG09682 / NIA NIH HHS AG0794 / NIA NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1992
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984363609902771
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