RT Book, Section
A1 Hale, Wayne A.
A1 Joubert, Jané D.
A1 Kalula, Sebastiana
A2 Markle, William H.
A2 Fisher, Melanie A.
A2 Smego, Raymond A.
SR Print(0)
ID 57936789
T1 Chapter 16. Aging Populations and Chronic Illness
T2 Understanding Global Health, 2e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179100-7
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57936789
RD 2024/04/19
AB Develop  an  overview  of  the  demography  and  societal  effects  of  global  aging  and  its  relationship  to  noncommunicable  diseases  (NCDs)Understand  the  increasing  contribution  of  NCDs  to  the  global  burden  of  disease,  especially  in  less  developed  countriesDevelop  a  perspective  on  the  rank  order  of  chronic  diseases,  risk  factors,  and  causes  of  death  when  disability  effects  are  includedRecognize  the  increasing  contributions  of  development-related  risk  factors  to  the  expansion  of  NCDsBecome  aware  of  institutional  and  governmental  responses  to  the  challenges  of  managing  increasing  numbers  of  older  persons  and  chronically  ill  patients