First Cover -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Adults -- The Health Consequences of Unemployment -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Key conclusions from the research literature -- The Physical and Mental Health Consequences of Unemployment -- The Effects of Unemployment on Family Members -- Preliminary Results from a Canadian Community Survey -- Reemployment and the Recovery of Health -- Mediating and Moderating Factors -- Summary of Key Findings -- Sucess stories -- The Michigan JOBS Program -- Local Success Stories -- Job Clubs -- Policy Implications -- Reducing Unemployment -- Altering the Consequences of Unemployment -- Bibliography -- Promoting Literacy, Improving Health -- Table of contents -- Overview of literacy work -- Statistics -- Causes of Limited Literacy -- Personal Factors -- Social and Economic Factors -- The Role of Schools -- Impact of Limited Literacy -- Literacy Programming -- Program Delivery -- Programs in Educational Institutions -- Community-Based Programs -- Workplace Programs -- Effectiveness of Literacy Programs -- The Role of Communication Technologies in Literacy -- Key Program Groups -- Aboriginal Peoples -- Francophones -- Inmates -- Women -- Health care and literacy -- Impact of Limited Literacy on Health -- Health Care Responses to the Literacy Issue -- Social Policy Changes -- Increased Awareness of the Issue -- Collaboration between Health and Literacy Workers -- Increased Access to Health Information -- Sucess stories -- Beat the Street: Frontier College -- BEST - Basic Education for Skills Training: The Ontario Federation of Labour -- Intergenerational Literacy Program: Invergarry Learning Centre -- Something Special for Seniors: Medicine Hat College and One Voice -- Policy implications -- Health Care -- Education -- Social Equity -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Seniors.

Maintaining and Enhancing Independence and Well-Being in Old Age -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Health and wellness -- Seniors -- Nonmedical determinants of health -- Lifestyles -- The Social Structure -- Community development: a strategy with a promise -- Sucess stories -- Discover Choices: Manitoba and Saskatchewan -- Support Services to Seniors Program -- Tenderloin Seniors Organizing Project (TSOP) -- On Lok: "Peaceful, happy abode" -- Arthritis Self-Management Program: B.C. Project -- Policy implications -- Specific suggestions -- Bibliography -- Promoting Active Living and Healthy Eating among Older Canadians -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Key conclusions from the literature on active living -- Income Disparity -- Education -- Social Network and Support -- Physical Environment -- Self-Worth and Empowerment -- Key conclusions from the literature on healthy eating -- Income Disparity -- Education -- Social Network and Support -- Physical Environment -- Self-Worth and Empowerment -- The healthy eating-healthy activity connection -- Sucess story -- Policy implications -- bibliography -- Facilitating the Transition from Employment to Retirement -- Table of contents -- Introduction: the new transition from employment to retirement in relation to health -- New patterns of transition from employment to retirement -- Is health change a cause of retirement? -- The event of retirement as a cause of health change -- Life course instability and change in relation to health -- Facilitating the transition from work to retirement -- Policy implications -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Encouraging the Wise Use of Prescription Medication by Older Adults -- Table of contents -- Prescription drug use -- The Epidemiology of Drug Use in the Elderly -- Prescription Drug Costs.

Prescription Drug Expenditures: Are We Getting Good Value for Our Dollar? -- Evidence of Overuse and Underuse of Prescription Drugs -- Evidence of Inappropriate Prescribing -- Evidence of Unjustified High-Cost Prescribing -- Evidence of Noncompliance -- Summary -- Examining the Consequences -- Nonmedical factors influencing Drug use and outcomes of drug therapy -- Health Care System Influences on Prescription Drug Use and the Outcomes of Drug Therapy -- Physician Characteristics and Their Influence on Prescription Drug Use and the Outcomes of Drug Therapy -- Patient Characteristics and Their Influence on Prescription Drug Use and the Outcomes of Drug Therapy -- Summary -- Interventions-What works and what does not -- Health Care System Interventions -- Physician-Based Interventions -- Pharmacist-Based Interventions -- Patient-Based Interventions -- Sucess stories -- Patient-Level Intervention -- Physician-Level Intervention: Academic Detailing -- Physician-Level Intervention: Academic Detailing and the Provincial Colleges of Physicians -- Conclusions -- Policy Implications -- The Microdeterminants -- The Macrodeterminants -- Bibliography -- Preventing, Reducing and Stopping the Abuse and Neglect of Older Canadian Adults in Canadian Communities -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- The nature and the extent of the problem -- Prevalence of Abuse and Neglect -- Definitions -- Review of the literature -- Relationships of Health Determinants to Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults -- Theoretical Perspectives on Abuse and Neglect of Older Adults -- Indicators of Abuse -- Social policy issues -- Adequacy of Resources -- Gender Issues -- Poverty and Socioeconomic Issues -- Canadian case studies of abuse -- Review of Programs and Strategies -- Conclusions from the Case Studies -- Future directions and recommendations -- Conclusions -- bibliography.

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