Can We Afford to Be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise?

Healthy , Wealthy , and Wise ?

This paper utilizes the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD) Panel to test for the absence of causal links from socio-economic status (SES) to innovations in health or mortality, and from health conditions to innovations in wealth. We conclude that there is no causal link from SES to mortality or to incidence of sudden onset health conditions (accidents and, probably, acute condi...

Can I afford to be healthy?

NCMed J July/August 2009, Volume 70, Number 4 t is perfectly intuitive to expect certainmeasuresof population health to decline during periods of great economic instability. Recessions are marked by increases in unemployment and decreases in income. The literature connecting income and health status is well-established; frankly, being poor is bad for your health. As we face increased numbers of...

Providing outpatient prescription drugs through Medicare: can we afford to? Can we afford not to?

Can Small Colleges Afford To Be Technology Leaders? Can They Afford Not To Be?

Small colleges, troubled by demands on financial aid, constrained by external pressures to limit the growth of tuition and fees, and driven by increased competition for students, appear poorly positioned to be technology leaders. However, in these difficult times they have opportunities to distinguish themselves through focused applications of information technology resources in support of thei...

Healthy , Wealthy and Wise : The State of the Society

As an international organization, we strive for our society to meet the three simple words in the title of this article. The Board works hard all year, hopefully utilizing collective wisdom to steer the organization through calm and rough waters. We analyze the past, looking for important trends and we try to learn from our mistakes and our successes. We dutifully prognosticate the future, know...