Biomedical subjects

J Habib

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PubMed1985

Role of institutional and community services in meeting the long-term care needs of the elderly in Israel: the decade of the 1980s.

Israel faces a major challenge to its capacity to deal adequately with the needs of the chronically ill. This paper describes the present state of long-term care services for the chronically ill and documents the extensive disparities in the rate of institutional and community services by region. In view of the expected dramatic increase in the number of aged greater than or equal to 75 years old (from 106,800 to 181,500 between 1980 and 1990), the authors project a 50% increase in the need for institutional and community services just to maintain existing service patterns. The paper discusses the central issues related to the development of both types of services in response to the increase in needs.

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PubMed1979

A community program for the control of cardiovascular risk factors: a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of the CHAD program in Jerusalem.

A community program for the control of cardiovascular risk factors, the CHAD program, was instituted in a family practice in western Jerusalem in 1971. The effectiveness of the program was evaluated by comparing the findings of community surveys conducted in 1970 and 1975 and by comparing the changes with those observed in an adjacent control neighborhood. This paper reports the findings among men aged 35 years and above. In the community exposed to the program there was a decrease in mean systolic and disatolic pressures, in the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia, and in the prevalence of cigarette smoking. The changes in blood pressures and smoking habits were significantly greater than those observed in the control population. In the control population (only) there was a small increase in mean body weight and a decrease in reported physical activity. The findings suggest that it is possible for a program that operates and through primary health care to have an appreciable influence upon cardiovascular risk factors in the community.

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PubMed1969

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Developing an information base for short-and long-term planning of services for the elderly in Israel: an interim report.

Population aging throughout the Western world has stimulated a concern with the implications for service needs. It has been increasingly recognized that not only the increase in the total number of elderly, but also changes in their composition, are affecting service needs. This paper describes the attempts made to acquire more detailed information on the implications of demographic change for service needs in Israel. It indicates the dimensions of demographic change and then proceeds to present an overall picture of the strategy employed to evaluate the impact of these changes on aspects of health status and the need for community and institutional services.

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