Health Systems, Aging, and Inequity: An Example from Chile

Nutrition and Aging: Nutritional Health Inequity

1 Program for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843-1266, USA 2Public Policy and Aging Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-2041, USA 3Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 4Department of Exercise Science and Prev...

Health Economics and Aging

Objectives: In this paper, aging with its different dimensions is discussed. The characteristics of elderly's life in relation to individual, social, and changes meet aging together with attitudes toward it and major components of elderly are explained. Disease and burden of disease of aging as a central to the areas of Health and Health Economics will be emphasized. The influential factors on ...

Health Literacy and Aging

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An update on aging and dementia in Chile

Chile is in an advanced demographic transition stage with the population over 60 years of age representing 15% of the total population and whose number of elderly has more than doubled between 1990 and 2014. Rapid economic advancement has promoted significant changes in social organization to which the country is not accustomed. The mental health problems of the elderly are particularly challen...

Aging and Health – A Systems