• Front Matter R1-R16

• 1 Introduction and Summary of Recommendations 1-51

• 2 Social, Economic, and Demographic Changes Among the Elderly 52-64

• 3 Health Status and Quality of Life 65-93

• 4 Health Transitions and the Compression of Morbidity 94-107

• 5 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 108-125

• 6 Quality of Care 126-134

• 7 Long-term Care 135-149

• 8 The Financing of Health Care Services for the Elderly 150-177

• 9 Health Services Utilization 178-201

• 10 Enhancing the Utility of Statistical Systems 202-235

• 11 Statistical Methodology for Health Policy Analysis 236-258

• References 259-278

• A Background Papers 279-280

• B Effects of Budgetary Constraints on Federal Statistical Programs 281-286

• C Descriptions of Data Bases Mentioned in the Panel's Recommendations 287-312

• D Long-term Health Care Minimum Data Set 313-315

• E Acronyms 316-318

• F Biographical Sketches 319-323

" 2 Social, Economic, and Demographic Changes Among the Elderly ." The Aging Population in the Twenty-First Century: Statistics for Health Policy . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1988 .

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