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UCSF INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH & AGING ◊ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Our Mission - to optimize the health and aging of individuals, communities, and society through research, education and public service in the social and behavioral sciences.
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The number and proportion of older Americans is growing rapidly and continues to accelerate with the aging of the "baby boomers." This demographic trend, combined with concurrent increases in the prevalence of chronic illness, the need for long-term care, and the impact of a changing and financially constrained health care system, underscore the critical need for research that investigates cost effective health care services delivery, outcomes, accountability, access to services, and quality of care.
Coupled with increasing state government responsibility for health and long-term care, these trends have necessitated the integration of research into practice applications in real-world settings.
The Institute for Health & Aging (IHA) responds directly to these challenges nationally.
To learn more about our history, research agenda and funding, visit the IHA Facts web page.
Our faculty and investigators are internationally recognized experts, who represent multiple disciplines and health professions including anthropology, epidemiology, health economics, law, medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacology, psychology, social welfare, sociology, and statistics.
Visit our faculty page to learn more about each of their areas of expertise. From there you can link to their individual web pages to learn about their current research or public health projects, and access a list of their publications.
Our dear friend and colleague, Gay Becker, a Medical Anthropologist, died unexpectedly while traveling in 2007. A memorial page highlights her career and contributions.
After forty years of dedicated service to the University of California, San Francisco, IHA Founding Director Carroll L. Estes, Ph.D., transitions from Professor of Sociology to Professor Emerita.
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In recent years, a number of research centers and public health programs have emerged at the Institute, which address a wide range of socioeconomic issues in such areas as women's health, child health, healthy and active aging, aging and long term care, health & diverse populations, disability, substance abuse, and medical economics.
The Solomon F. Davis Resource Center provides on-line access to our Center's catalog, a list of electronic journals with selected hyper links, and a comprehensive list of electronic databases, which are useful research tools for our faculty and professional staff.
To assist our faculty, supervisors, and project staff, the Administrative Support page provides information and guidelines on a variety of administrative topics, policies, and procedures in such areas as Research Administration (contracts & grants), Personnel & Payroll, Purchasing, Accounts Payable & Reimbursement, and On-line Financial Systems.
UCSF INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH & AGING ◊ SCHOOL OF NURSING
◊ University of California, San Francisco
3333 California St., #LHts-340, San Francisco, CA 94143-0646
More information, contact: mariechristine.yue@ucsf.edu
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