Ill-Health on High Mountains

Retirement on grounds of ill health.

Correspondence to: Dr M Stattin, Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden; mikael.stattin@ soc.umu.se _________________________ T oday, most modern welfare states face the challenge of an aging population and decreasing rates of labour force participation among older people. Despite increased life expectancy, improved living conditions, and better health status, the average time people ...

Poverty as a cause and consequence of Ill health

Background and aims: Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be defined in both economic and social terms. The paper attempts to review the existing evidence to understand the relation between poverty and ill health in the context of the limited conceptual and operational definitions of these terms. The paper uses two of Hills criteria- reversibility and dose response relationship to ...

Mental Health and Ill-Health

The words "stress" and "strain" in association with ill-health have in the past few years become commonplace, not only in the vocabulary of medical men, but in everyday speech. The man in the street talks of a friend getting ill or having a nervous breakdown under the strain of overwork ; the doctor talks of a stress condition, and includes under this heading a lengthening list of clinical diso...

Ii Family Ill Health

856 PEDIATRICS, May 1965 T HAT children have families, and that the health of children-the obvious concern of pediatricians-depends, in part, upon the universal social institution of the family, needs no defense. Indeed, the skeptic asks, “What is there new about the family that helps me give better care to childnen?” The purpose of this symposium was not so much to describe what was new but as...

Family Ill Health