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Edited by M. Robinson, W. Novellie, C. Pearson, and L. Norris
373 pp, $51.50
San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-8810-4

JAMA. 2008;299(19):2333-2334.

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The contributors to Global Health & Global Aging are characterized by their eminence and wide range of experience in governmental and international organizations. While Global Health & Global Aging shares those features with the first text in this series, Critical Issues in Global Health (edited in 2001 by former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop), this is much less of an introductory overview and is more candid in suggesting reforms to the US health care system. A brief survey of the 31 chapters suggests the breadth and quality of this work.

In part 1, "The World and its Aging Population," Mary Weinberger (a United Nations demographer) details the trends in mortality and fertility that will lead to 40% of many populations likely being older than 60 years by the mid-21st century. Alexandre Sidorenko (former chief of the United Nations Programme for Aging) reviews the Madrid Plan of Action for a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Thomas A. Faunce, LLB, BMed, PhD, Reviewer
Medical School and College of Law
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
thomas.faunce@anu.edu.au

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