Municipal Community Center as a Healthy Setting?: The Directors' perspective

Feasibility of setting up a health promotion and disease prevention center with a healthy aging approach

Introduction: In spite of the global trend towards increased screening efforts, there remain instances where uncertainty surrounds the cost-effectiveness of this approach. In such cases, a comprehensive assessment that considers cost-effectiveness, feasibility, and factors related to epidemiology, socio-culture, and community becomes indispensable. This assessment offers crucial insights to gui...

San Joaquin Valley Health Effects Research Center Center Directors

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The sheltered workshop as a community recycling center.

ANY SHELTERED WORKSHOPS do not provide actual work. Sheltered workshops often exist to provide a place for handicapped individuals to spend their day engaging in arts and crafts activities that are unsalable. Many sheltered workshops have greenhouses that grow and sell plants and herbs for little more than it costs to buy seed. Most workshops do business on a contract by contract basis where a ...

Introducing the Urban Community Health Center (UCHC) as a Nascent Local Model: Will it be a Linchpin in the Health Sector Reform in Iran?

Older age applicants: medical directors' perspective.

The number of individuals in the United States over the age of 65 is expected to increase rapidly during the remainder of this century and well into the next century. This growth rate is most marked for those individuals over the age of 85. Lest one think that this is a phenomenon unique to the United States, let me be quick to point out that most industrialized countries have experienced or ar...