Health Through the Ages How Health Concepts Evolved
An overview traces health from survival needs to a broader state of well being. It notes the shift from viewing health as mere absence of illness to a positive, multidimensional concept including social, emotional, spiritual, mental, cultural, and physical factors.
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Aiken
Ageless Beauty and Health Span Ideas by Glen Nichols
The piece argues health should emphasize healthy years as well as longer life. It profiles Glen R Nichols Ph.D. of the Lower Savannah Health District in Aiken and his mother’s resilience through surgeries and cancer while urging readers to start counting healthful days today.
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Aiken
Glenn R. Nichols
Ncac II
Lower Savannah Health District
DHEC
Beaufort Street
Study on aspirin lowering genetic risk of colon cancer
Researchers from the US and Germany tested aspirin on a severe inherited form of colon cancer in vitro. They found aspirin suppressed mutations that drive tumors, pushing unstable cells to die rather than reproduce, a result described as dramatic by lead investigator Richard Fishel of Thomas Jefferson University.
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Washington
Proceedings
The
National Academy of Sciences
Richard Fishel
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia
Managed care costs likely to rise as savings fade
Government analysts in Health Affairs predict U.S. health spending will double to 2.1 trillion by 2007, with health care accounting for 16.6 percent of GDP. They warn private sector savings in HMOs are nearly exhausted, pushing overall costs up while Medicare remains stable.
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Washington
Health Affairs
The
Health Care Financing Administration
Medicare
Richard Foster
Foster
Hmos
Office of Personnel Management
Jon Gabel
Center For Survey Research
Kpmg Peat Marwick
Gabel
Americanization linked to mental decline for immigrants study
A Berkeley based study of 3,000 Mexican American adults in California and 1,700 in Mexico City finds immigrants and those born abroad show a about 24.9 percent lifetime risk of mental disorders, rising to 48.1 percent for US born Mexican Americans, with social ties and economic factors shaping risk.
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Berkeley
Calif
United States
William Vega
University of Texas
Archives of General Psychiatry
California
Fresno County
Mexico City
Vega
Mexico
University of California At Berkeley
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