How Healthy Are We?
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- ISBN 9780226074757
- Weight: 1077g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2004
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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How physically and psychologically healthy are Americans at midlife? And why do some experience greater well-being than others? The MacArthur Foundation addressed these questions head-on by funding a landmark study known as "Midlife in the U.S." (MIDUS). "How Healthy Are We?" presents the key findings from the survey in three sections: physical health, quality of life and psychological well-being, and the contexts of midlife. This wide-ranging study measures not only health - the absence of illness - but also reports on the presence of wellness in middle-aged Americans. Researchers, policymakers, and others concerned with the quality of midlife will welcome its insights.
Orville Gilbert Brim is president of Life Trends Inc. and former director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Midlife Development. Carol D. Ryff is professor of psychology and director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Ronald C. Kessler is professor in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.
