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, family composition, health and religion over subjective well-being in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay … American countries. Main obtained results show a positive correlation between higher levels of income and health,being married …
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environment on the health status of elderly people living in Brussels. Using census and geocoded data, we analysed if built … environment factors were associated with poor self- assessed health status and functional limitations of elderly aged 65+. We …
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With a lower and lower mortality at younger ages, gains in life expectancy are heavily dependent on improvements in old age survival. However, over the last three decades, life expectancies at ages 65 and 85 did not show a constant rate of progress. Changes in life expectancy come from...
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elderly of Montevideo, Uruguay. Based on data from the Survey on Health, Well-being and Aging (SABE project, PAHO-WHO), a … the probability of being obese. The results do not show a significative association between poor health, measured through … captures socioeconomic status is positive and statistically significative in the obese equation, the negative effects on health …
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Elders (ACOVE) project began in 1998 as a collaboration between RAND Health and Pzizer Inc to develop and apply quality … the target population, identifying health conditions that cover much of the medical care provided to this population …
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the share of general and medical practitioners in the population on the provided outpatient health care services. … density of general and medical practitioner and the quality of care provided to the frail elderly. The quality of care is …
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the share of general and medical practitioners in the population on the provided outpatient health care services. … density of general and medical practitioner and the quality of care provided to the frail elderly. The quality of care is …
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Final report of a quasi-experimental impact evaluation of three pilot projects to improve SNAP access among Medicare Extra Help applicants or participants.
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This report examines pilot programs in three states designed to expand access to SNAP for low-income elderly people and people with disabilities. The multiyear, multimode study, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, found that all of the pilot projects had...
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benefit change in the VA health care system. Using data from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, I compare prescription … spending and utilization, as well as use of other health services and health outcomes for veterans and non-veterans before and … measured improvements in the health of benefit recipients. The benefit appears to accrue mainly to low-income and disabled …
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