Simvastatin: between clinics and health economics

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 and Socio-Economics of the Elderly

Aging is reviewed by a variety of disciplines; demographers, sociologists, economists, health scientists, and politicians. However, there are still great disputes over aging because of its economic roles, and health expenditures. Several questions about aging should be answered. Is aging an illness? Are aged people a burden to community? Is it a threat, or an achievement? (1). There are opposi...

Child health clinics.

Health economics and orthopaedics.

It is becoming widely accepted that research which considers only the outcome and not the costs associated with new technologies in health care, is of limited value in making decisions about the use of scarce resources. Economic evaluation is becoming a standard feature of clinical research but many published economic evaluations fall short of best practice in their methodology. We have describ...

Obesity, Economics, and Health

Rising obesity rates are a public health concern in the United States and around the world. Prolonged obesity has implications for health at older ages, and these health effects may increase the costs of health care for individuals and governments. The Behavioral and Social Research Program at the National Institute on Aging supports research on the health consequences of obesity and the factor...