Global Health & Global Aging
373 pp, $51.50
San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-8810-4
- Thomas A. Faunce, LLB, BMed, PhD, ReviewerMedical School and College of LawAustralian National UniversityCanberra, Australia thomas.faunce@anu.edu.au
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
- KEYWORDS:
- AGING
- WORLD HEALTH
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 …
