Effective health behavior in older adults /
In what ways do health behaviors and societal mechanisms help or discourage individuals in assuming responsibility for their health? Highly-esteemed and diverse contributors examine the health behaviors of older adults and the ways in which these behaviors are affected by societal trends. The volume...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer Pub. Co.,
©2002.
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| Series: | Societal impact on aging.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors; Preface; 1 Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions; 2 Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk; 3 A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly: Are You as Healthy as You Feel?; 4 Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease; 5 Ethnicity and Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention; 6 Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success.
- Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions / Tom Hickey
- Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk / Jerry Suls and René Martin
- Commentary : Acute and Chronic Psychological Processes in Cardiovascular Disease / Derek W. Johnston
- A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly : Are You as Healthy as You Feel? / Suzanne M. Miller, James C. Knowles, Robert Schnoll, and Joanne Buzaglo
- Commentary : Beyond the Sociodemographics : From Prediction to Explanation of the Effects of Gender and Social Deprivation in Recovery from Myocardial Infarction / Marie Johnston, Hannah McGee, Elspeth Graham, and Malcolm MacLeod
- Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease / Lynda H. Powell
- Ethnicity and Psycosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention / Keith E. Whitfield, Tamara A. Baker, and Dwayne T. Brandon
- Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit : Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success / John C. Barefoot
- Exercise Interventions and Aging : Psychological and Physical Health Benefits in Older Adults / James A. Blumenthal and Elizabeth C.D. Gullete
- Commentary : Challenges to Using Exercise Interventions in Older Adults / Edith A. Burns
- How Provider Payment Policies Affect the Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly / Bruce Stuart
- Commentary : Third-Party Payors and the Patient-Professional Relationship / Bryan E. Dowd
- Commentary : Factors Affecting Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly / Pearl S. German
- The Potential for Health Care Organizations to Promote Maintenance and Change in Health Behaviors Among the Elderly / William Rakowski and Melissa A. Clark
- Commentary : Health Maintenance Organizations for the Elderly Patient? / Elaine Leventhal
- Commentary : Health Care Organizational Structure, Prevention, and Health Behavior Among the Elderly / Stephen Crystal
- Afterword : Health Behavior and the Elderly : How Do We Understand Its Determinants and Their Goals? / Howard Leventhal.
