The Epidemiologic study of the elderly /
Public health
| Other Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Aging and disease: from laboratory to community / Robert B. Wallace
- The complexity of chronic illness in the elderly: from clinic to community / Linda P. Fried and Robert B. Wallace
- Risk factors and the study of prevention in the elderly: methodological issues / George A. Kaplan, Mary N. Haan and Richard D. Cohen
- Ethical issues in conducting surveys of the elderly / Patricia L. Colsher
- Sampling strategies for studying older populations / Daniel H. Freeman, Jr. ... [et al.]
- The use of survey methods in research on older Americans / A. Regula Herzog and Willard L. Rodgers
- The pragmatics of survey field work among the elderly / Frank J. Kohout
- The use of proxy respondents in health surveys of the aged / Jay Magaziner
- Epidemiologic studies of the cognitive function in the elderly: rationale, methods, and findings / Patricia L. Colsher
- Assessing physical function in older populations / Jack M. Guralnik and Andrea Z. LaCroix
- Epidemiologic methods for the study of health service use by older people / Laurence G. Branch.
- (cont) Social networks and social support among the elderly: assessment issues / Lisa F. Berkman, Thomas E. Oxman and Teresa E. Seeman
- Psychiatric epidemiology in elderly populations / Dan L. Tweed, Dan G. Blazer and James A. Ciarlo
- Epidemiologic research on nursing home populations / Daniel J. Foley
- Types and quality of data available on the elderly in the 1990 census / Cynthia M. Taeuber
- Data sets for research in aging: the National Center for Health Statistics / Tamara B. Harris and Mary Grace Kovar
- The quality and application of death records of older persons / Richard J. Havlik and Harry M. Rosenberg
- Assessing income and resources of the elderly / William S. Cartwright
- Epidemiologic studies of aging in historically understudied populations / Patricia L. Colsher
- Cross-cultural research on aging and health / Jersey Liang and Gina M. Jay
- Methodological issues in a survey of the last days of life / Dwight B. Brock ... [et al.]
- Grade of membership analysis in the epidemiology of aging / Kenneth G. Manton and Max A. Woodbury.
- (cont) Issues in handling incomplete data in surveys of the elderly / Jon H. Lemke and Gregg A. Drube
- Utility of logistic regression analysis in epidemiologic studies of the elderly / Peter A. Lachenbruch.