Healthy Aging in Asia
eBook - ePub

Healthy Aging in Asia

  1. 278 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Healthy Aging in Asia

About this book

Life expectancy in Japan, South Korea, and much of urban China has now outpaced that of the United States and other high-income countries. With this triumph of longevity, however, comes a rise in the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes and hypertension, reducing healthy life years for individuals in these aging populations, as well as challenging the healthcare systems they rely on for appropriate care.

The challenges and disparities are even more pressing in low- and middle-income economies, such as rural China and India. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the vulnerability to newly emerging pathogens of older adults suffering from NCDs, and the importance of building long-term, resilient health systems.

What strategies have been tried to prevent NCDs—the primary cause of morbidity and mortality — as well as to screen for early detection, raise the quality of care, improve medication adherence, reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and increase "value for money" in health spending?

Fourteen concise chapters cover multiple aspects of policy initiatives for healthy aging and economic research on chronic disease control in diverse health systems — from cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong to large economies such as Japan, India, and China.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Tables and Figures
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Contributors
  8. Preface and Acknowledgements
  9. 1. Healthy Aging in Asia: Introduction
  10. 2. Healthy Aging and inequality in Age of Death: Comparing Trends in Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the United States
  11. 3. Healthy Aging and Economic Research on the Net Value of Noncommunicable Disease Management in Japan
  12. 4. The Political Economy of Precision Health: The Case of Japan
  13. 5. Personalized and Precision Medicine in Japan
  14. 6. Diabetes Care Management and Policy toward Healthy Aging in South Korea
  15. 7. Noncommunicable Disease Management in Hong Kong: Current Policies and the Potential Role of Economics Research
  16. 8. Creating National Demonstration Areas for the integrated Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in China
  17. 9. Avoidable Admission Rates for Diabetes Patients and Associated Medical Spending in Rural China: Evidence from Zhejiang Province
  18. 10. Exploring and Promoting the Family Doctor System in an Aging China
  19. 11. Hypertension Control after Health Insurance Expansion: Empirical Evidence from China
  20. 12. Private Roles for Public Goals in China’s Social Services
  21. 13. Cancer, Disparities, and Public-Private Roles
  22. 14. Healthy Aging Policies in india
  23. Appendix: Methods for Estimating Net Value of Chronic Disease Management
  24. Index