Health Promotion, Health Care, and Health Services for the Aging Population
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Aging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 March 2023) | Viewed by 2304
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health promotion; biostatistics; clinical trials; epidemiology; non-communicable diseases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Older adults are known to have a higher prevalence of multi-morbidity than younger adults. The complexity of multi-morbidity in connection with the high demands of health care as well as with polypharmacy result in a major burden on the older population, health caregivers and the health care system. Thus, as rapid population aging has become a global public health issue, determining how to provide appropriate health promotion, health care, and health services for older people to decrease their burden of diseases and increase their well-being is one of the most important topics globally.
Studies of the status, predictors, and improvement strategies of health care or health service utilization and health outcomes among older people can provide helpful information to plan healthcare interventions for older people and/or suggest appropriate health policies for the aging population. Although numerous studies have been conducted, more evidence and discussions are needed focused on this issue. This forms the motivation to set up the Special Issue of the journal, which aims to collect both theoretical and practical research contributing towards but not limited to the following topics.
- Health promotion, health care, and health services—whether in the community, hospital, or long-term care facility—are the focus of the Special Issue. These include health promotion programs, preventive care, medical care, and long-term care services for the aging population.
- Under the era of emerging infectious diseases, reforms of the health care model (such as the application of innovative telemedical technology in healthcare) focused on the emerging infectious disease-induced crisis or barriers to the use of health care are needed to continuously progress health care services.
- Along with dynamic technologies, societal changes, and the aging population, updated evidence on the performance of health care systems, with respect to the objectives of effectiveness, efficiency and equity of health services, is needed for future reference.
- Studies on the improper use, under-use, over-use, or avoidable use of health services among older people, especially in those of specific ethnic backgrounds (such as indigenous people) and those comorbid with a high burden of disorders (such as dementia and depression), also deserve more attention.
Papers addressing the aforementioned topics are invited to contribute to this Special Issue. Authors who have any questions regarding the scope of the Special Issue are welcome to contact the Guest Editors. We look forward to receiving your submission.
Dr. Jiun-Yi Wang
Dr. Chih-Ching Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- access of health care
- efficiency of health services
- effectiveness of health services
- equity of health services
- health care system
- health care utilization
- health outcomes
- health promotion programs. long-term care
- medical care. multi-morbidity
- older people
- preventive care
- quality of health care
- telemedicine
