All Welcome
International Centre for Health & Society, UCL
2003 Seminar Series.
Monday 2 June, 5pm
(RSVP attendance essential)
Speaker: Jack M. Guralnik, MD, PhD .
Chief of the Epidemiology and Demography Section in the Laboratory
of Epidemiology, Demography and Biometry at the National Institute
on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland.
Title: "Challenges and Innovations in Aging Epidemiology"
New Ways of Looking at Health States and Risk Factors
Abstract:
New definitions of health states and approaches to studying risk
factors have developed over the past two decades as epidemiologic
methods have been extended to studying aging. Epidemiologic
research in the older population uses conventional approaches to
examine the distribution and determinants of specific diseases, but the
field has also been challenged to investigate outcomes characterizing
health states relevant to older persons that go beyond the simple
presence or absence of disease. These health states include disability,
functional limitations and impairments, active life expectancy,
comorbidity, frailty, end of life changes, and healthy aging. Evaluating
risk factors has also proven a substantial challenge in the older
population and unexpected associations of risk factors and certain
outcomes have been described. These associations have often been
clarified by considering both long- term changes in risk factors and the
impact of poor health on a risk factor.
RSVP: by 30 May (indicating any special needs and for venue details)
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