DC Feldman - Academy of management review, 1994 - journals.aom.org
This article explores three interconnected decisions related to early retirement-the decision whether to leave a long-term job prior to age 65. the decision whether to accept bridge …
Background Non-fatal health outcomes from diseases and injuries are a crucial consideration in the promotion and monitoring of individual and population health. The …
Background Healthy life expectancy (HALE) summarises mortality and non-fatal outcomes in a single measure of average population health. It has been used to compare health between …
Self-efficacy: Thought control of action Page 2 Self-Efficacy Page 3 This page intentionally left blank Page 4 SELF-EFFICACY: THOUGHT CONTROL OF ACTION Edited by Ralf Schwarzer …
With the aspiration for a long life now achievable for many individuals, the status of old age as a distinct social position has become problematic. In this radical re-examination of the …
Currently, some 50% of the US population has a chronic disease, creating an epidemic, and 86% of health care costs are attributable to chronic disease. The medical profession and its …
SJ Olshansky, AB Ault - The Milbank Quarterly, 1986 - JSTOR
Gains in longevity in the United States since the midnineteenth century occurred as a result of an epidemiologic transition: deaths from infectious diseases were replaced by deaths …
In 1987 when Medical Power and Social Knowledge first appeared, medical sociology did not have a sophisticated or systematic theoretical framework or tradition. Medical sociology …
R Floud, RW Fogel, B Harris, SC Hong - 2011 - books.google.com
Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists …