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The Ministry of Health (Indonesian: Kementerian Kesehatan, officially abbreviated as Kemenkes) is a government ministry which organize public health affairs within the Indonesian government. History [ edit ]
Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a ANSI certified [15] clinically focused high-level expression language standard curated by Health Level 7. [16] It is designated for clinical knowledge sharing in the domains of electronic clinical quality measurement and clinical decision support .
An old man at a nursing home in Norway. Elderly care, or simply eldercare (also known in parts of the English-speaking world as aged care), serves the needs of old adults.It encompasses assisted living, adult daycare, long-term care, nursing homes (often called residential care), hospice care, and home care.
Geriatricians have focused on holistic assessments of their patients since the early days of the specialty. Dr. Marjorie Warren was the first doctor in the UK to systematically assess older people, categorizing them into those who could be got better with appropriate treatment and then discharged, and those who needed continuing (usually institutional) care. [4]
The WHO was established on April 7, 1948, and formally began its work on September 1, 1948. [6] It incorporated the assets, personnel, and duties of the League of Nations ' Health Organization and the Paris-based Office International d'Hygiène Publique , including the International Classification of Diseases (ICD). [ 7 ]
One study placed the incidence of frailty for ages 65+ at 10.7%. [131] Another study placed the incidence of frailty in age 65+ population at 22% for women and 15% for men. [132]: 106 A Canadian study illustrated how frailty increases with age and calculated the prevalence for 65+ as 22.4% and for 85+ as 43.7%. [133]