A health campaign for the elderly: developing a health promotion strategy for the elderly using functional assessments of community dwelling individuals

Objective: To develop a functional health screening strategy forcommunity-dwelling elderly individuals, including eventual referralto existing health services. We justified the study by considering thelimitations of the Brazilian health system. A second objective was totest whether this strategy wou...

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Main Authors: Thiago de Oliveira Monaco, Wilson Jacob Filho
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2007-03-01
Series:Einstein (São Paulo)
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Online Access:http://www.einstein.br/revista/arquivos/PDF/457-1[1].5-einstein.on.line.pdf