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McDaniel, Susan | Health care in an aging Canada: constraint or choice? | It is often presumed that population aging will result in increased demand for health care, with older Canadians seen as a "burden" to the working population. Yet, such a presumption of direct correlation (with implied causality) belies the complex questions of societal choices in expenditures: fac... | Age factors; Canada; Health care costs | 1994 |
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Kleinschmidt, Julia J.; Grosshans, Onie; Caserta, Michael; Saffel-Shrier, Susan; Tuohig, Gail | Intervening in midlife for optimal retirement: a guide for health educators | Factors contributing to successful retirement deserve increased attention given the rapid growth of the aging population. Antecedent to successful retirement is successful aging. The middle aged population is an opportune target for health promotion and health education interventions as this group... | Retirement; Aging Process;Education Interventions; Health Promotion | 1991-10 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Changes in functional limitations and survival among the elderly in Taiwan: 1993, 1996, and 1999 | This paper focuses on changes in the prevalence of functional limitations among nationally representative samples of adults aged 65 and older in Taiwan as measured in 1993, 1996, and 1999. Using data from the Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan, we investigate changes in diff... | Functional limitation; Climbing stairs | 2002 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Urban versus rural mortality among older adults in China | Urban versus rural place of residence has proven to be a critical health determinant over time and across countries. Several studies have demonstrated an urban advantage in mortality in China. This variation by place of residence could be a function of differences in characteristics of individuals, ... | Urban mortality; Rural mortality; China | 2006 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Active life expectancy and functional limitations among older Cambodians: results from a 2004 survey | This study's aims are to: 1) determine the prevalence of functional limitations among older adults in Cambodia using activities of daily living (ADLs); 2) compare limitation prevalence with other countries in the region; 3) estimate active life expectancy; 4) examine standard correlates of function... | Active life expectancy; Functional limitations | 2005 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Disability and active life expectancy among older Cambodians | Older adults in Cambodia are survivors of harsh living conditions, including poverty and periods of extreme violence. Although these experiences may affect health outcomes, little data has existed to monitor Cambodia's older population. The current paper uses data from the 2004 Study of the Elder... | Active Life Expectancy; Ageing; Cambodia; Disability; Functional Status; Southeast Asia | 2006-07 |
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Couldwell, William T. | Practicing neurosurgery in the United States | Compared with other developed countries, the U.S. spends a high percentage of its gross domestic product on healthcare: 16 percent in 2005, up from 15 percent in 2004. This is far and away the greatest percentage of GDP spent on healthcare of any nation for which such data is collected. However,... | 2008-01-01 | |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Accounting for urban versus rural discrepancies in mortality and functional health among older adults in China | Broad differences exist in social and economic life between residents living in urban versus rural areas of China. To study the health implications of these differences, the current study employs data from a longitudinal study of older adults in the Beijing municipality, a region of China that has w... | Chinese; Elderly; Health care; Quality of life; Population | 2006-09-05 |
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Roy, Nelson | Prevalence and causes of dysphonia in a large treatment-seeking population | Objective: To determine the prevalence and common causes of dysphonia as diagnosed by primary care physicians (PCPs) and otolaryngologists, and to evaluate differences in etiologies offered by these providers. Study Design: Retrospective analysis of data from a large, nationally representative admin... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Reciprocal effects of health and economic well-being among older adults in Taiwan and Beijing | The objectives of this study are threefold: 1) to examine whether socioeconomic status disparities in health are found in non-Western settings; 2) to assess whether socioeconomic status gradients in health endure into older ages; and 3) to evaluate the direction of causality between health and soci... | Well-being; Health | 2005 |
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Utz, Rebecca L. | Procedure to correct proxy-reported weight in the National Health Interview Survey, 1976-2002 | Background: Data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) show a larger-than-expected increase in mean BMI between 1996 and 1997. Proxy-reports of height and weight were discontinued as part of the 1997 NHIS redesign, suggesting that the sharp increase between 1996 and 1997 may be artifactua... | National Health Interview Survey; NHIS; Proxy-reported weight | 2009 |
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DuVall, Scott L. | Understanding the profile of errors that cause duplicate entries in a patient registry | Duplicate records are detrimental to the cost-effective and efficient delivery of health care. Manually identifying and resolving duplicates can cost $60 per case. Patterns have been found in the types of errors that occur in patient registries, suggesting that undetected duplicate records may be ... | Duplicate records; Duplicate patient records; Profile of errors; Enterprise Data Warehouse; EDW; Utah Population Database; UPDB; Trapeze Interactive Poster | 2009 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Living arrangements and socio-demographic conditions of older adults in Cambodia | Since the takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, analysis of social conditions in the country has been lacking. Only recently has dependable socio-demographic data become available. We use some of these data to examine living arrangements and other socio-demographic conditions among Cambod... | Living arrangements; Older adults; Socio-demographic conditions; Coresident children | 2002 |
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Fan, Jessie Xiaojing | Sociodemographic and environmental correlates of active commuting in Rural America | Purpose. This research investigated participation rates in 3 modes of active commuting (AC) and their sociodemographic and physical environmental correlates in rural America. Methods. The 2000 Census supplemented with other datasets were used to analyze AC rates in percentage of workers walking, bik... | 2014-01-01 | |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Determinants of old-age mortality in Taiwan | Relationships among socio-demographic characteristics, general assessments of health, and old-age mortality are well established in developed countries. There is also an increasing focus on the connection between early-life experiences and late-life health. This paper tests these and other associat... | Mortality determinants; Gompertz regression | 2003 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | How indicators of socioeconomic status relate to physical functioning of older adults in three Asian societies | In developed countries, socioeconomic status has been identified as one of the most important demographic and social determinants of older adult health. The relationship has not been well studied or contrasted across much of the developing world. Yet, with population aging occurring rapidly in much ... | Physical functioning; Older adult health | 2003 |
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Edelman, Linda S. | Dangerous spaces: Using geographic information systems in injury research | PURPOSE: To provide an overview of geographic information systems (GIS) and to discuss current and future applications in injury and trauma research. DESIGN: Literature review and discourse of GIS technology related to injury and trauma research. METHOD: A search of scientific literature databases, ... | Community; Public Health; Technology; Internet; Risk Assessment; Wounds and Injuries | 2007-08 |
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Wen, Ming | Air pollution shortens life expectancy and health expectancy for older adults: the case of China | Background: Outdoor air pollution is one of the most worrying environmental threats China faces today. Comprehensive and quantitative analysis of the health consequences of air pollution in China is lacking. This study reports age-sex-specific life expectancy (LE) and health expectancies (HEs) corre... | 2012-01-01 | |
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McDaniel, Susan | Social bases of neonatal and postneonatal mortality: an ecological analysis of Alberta, Canada | Canada's steady downward trend in mortality in the twentieth century has not been matched by a similar decline in infant mortality. This paper examines, by reference to census divisions in Alberta, the degree to which neonatal and postneonatal mortality are related to environmental factors. Although... | Death; Exogeneous; Rates | 1981 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Differentials in life expectancy and active life expectancy by socioeconomic status among older adults in Beijing | The study compares estimates of life expectancy and active life expectancy across indicators of socioeconomic status for a cohort of older adults in Beijing Municipality. Our aim is to determine whether associations found are consistent across indicators and with those typically observed in Western... | Active life expectancy; Functional limitations | 2004 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Educational attainment and transitions in functional status among older Taiwanese | There is a lengthy history of research examining the relationship between socioeconomic status and health and mortality in Western societies (Antonovsky 1967; Fox 1989; Williams and Collins 1995). Almost unanimously, these investigations show that those with high socioeconomic status are advantaged ... | Educational attainment; Functional status; Older Taiwanese | 1998 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Education of adult children and mortality of their elderly parents in Taiwan | Research shows an older adult's education is strongly associated with mortality. But in societies such as Taiwan, where families are highly integrated, the education of family members may be linked to survival. Such may be the case in settings where there are large gaps in levels of education acros... | Education; Mortality | 2005 |
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Mitchell, Joyce A. | Beyond relevance--characteristics of key papers for clinicians: an exploratory study in an academic setting | Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine what factors beyond relevance influence a clinician's decision to choose to read one journal article over another in satisfying an information need. Design: Seventeen health care providers were interviewed and then surveyed regarding the characte... | 1996-01-01 | |
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Warrier, Smitha; Lee, Alexis; Brandes, Anna | Pursing Green Health: Assessing Sustainability of Medical Curriculum and Hospital Operations [recording] | Medical students and UHealth staff and faculty continued their sustainability efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic by deep diving into assessment. This session of the Climate Changes Health and Health Equity Community Read will focus on the results of their efforts - The Planetary Health Report Card... | Hospital operations; assessment; Medical School Curriculum; sustainability | 2021-12-02 |
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Zimmer, Zachary | Older persons' AIDS knowledge and willingness to provide care in an impoverished nation: evidence from Cambodia | Since the beginning of the global pandemic, assessing knowledge and attitudes regarding AIDS has been an important subject of research and for good reasons. Given the unusual features of HIV/AIDS, there is considerable potential for misunderstanding important aspects of the disease that could affect... | AIDS knowledge | 2007 |