Population Aging and Health Services in East Asia and Pacific

2015 ◽  
pp. 185-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Aging And Health

scholarly journals Mental Illness Inequalities by Multimorbidity, Use of Health Resources and Socio-Economic Status in an Aging Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Manuel García-Goñi ◽  
Alexandrina P. Stoyanova ◽  
Roberto Nuño-Solinís
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
The Poor

Background: Mental illness, multi-morbidity, and socio-economic inequalities are some of the main challenges for the public health system nowadays, and are further aggravated by the process of population aging. Therefore, it is widely accepted that health systems need to focus their strategies for confronting such concerns. With guaranteed access to health care services under universal coverage in many health systems, it is expected that all services be provided equally to patients with the same level of need. Methods: In this paper, we explore the existence of inequalities in the access to services of patients with mental illness taking into account whether they are multimorbid patients, their socioeconomic status, and their age. We take advantage of a one-year (2010–2011) database on individual healthcare utilization and expenditures for the total population (N = 2,262,698) of the Basque Country. Results: More comorbidity leads to greater inequality in prevalence, being the poor sicker, although with age, this inequality decreases. All health services are more oriented towards greater utilization of the poor and sicker, particularly in the case of visits to specialists and emergency care. Conclusions: Mental health inequalities in prevalence have been identified as being disproportionally concentrated in the least affluent areas of the Basque Country. However, inequalities in the utilization of publicly-provided health services present a pro-poor orientation. As this region has adopted a system-wide transformation towards integrated care, its mental health delivery model offers excellent potential for international comparisons and benchlearning.

Population aging policies in East Asia and the United States

Science ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 251 (4993) ◽  
pp. 527-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Martin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Aging Partners Managing Chronic Illness Together: Introducing the Content Collection

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 233372141773767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski ◽  
J. E. Sumerau
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Illness Management ◽  
Multiple Partners ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Prior Literature ◽  
Aging And Health

Prior literature on illness management within intimate relationships demonstrates a variety of benefits from supportive partnership. Indeed, much of the earliest research in this field engaged older adults with and without chronic conditions. However, this pioneering literature gave little consideration to relationships in which multiple partners were coping with chronic illness. By contrast, the majority of published manuscripts presented a “sick partner/well partner” model in which caregiving flowed only in one direction. Yet this idea makes little sense in the context of contemporaneous data on population aging and health as a majority of older adults now live with at least one chronic condition. Scholars still have not delved explicitly into the experiences of the vast population of older relationship partners who are managing chronic conditions simultaneously. We thus welcome Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine readers to this special content collection on Aging Partners Managing Chronic Illness Together.

Population Aging and Health in Puerto Rico

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-17
Author(s):  
Brian Downer ◽  
Michael Crowe ◽  
Kyriakos S. Markides
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Aging And Health

scholarly journals Population Aging and Health Trajectories at Older Ages

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 1111-1112
Author(s):  
Eric M Vogelsang ◽  
James M Raymo ◽  
Jersey Liang ◽  
Erika Kobayashi ◽  
Taro Fukaya
Keyword(s):  
Population Aging ◽  
Health Trajectories ◽  
Aging And Health
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