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UNINA9910454680803321 |
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WHO global report on falls prevention in older age [[electronic resource]] |
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Geneva, Switzerland, : World Health Organization, 2008 |
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1 online resource (53 p.) |
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Falls (Accidents) in old age |
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Monografia |
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"This global report is the product of the conclusions reached and recommendations made at the WHO Technical Meeting on Falls Prevention in Older Age which took place in Victoria, Canada in February 2007. The report includes international and regional perspectives on falls prevention issues and strategies and is based on a series of background papers that were prepared by worldwide recognized experts. The papers are available at: http://www.who.int/ageing/projects/falls_prevention_ older_age/en/index.html .The report was developed by the Department of Ageing and Life Course (ALC) under the direction of Dr Alexandre Kalache and the coordination of Dr Dongbo Fu who was closely assisted by Ms Sachiyo Yoshida." - p. ii. |
At head of title: Ageing and life course, family and community health. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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I. Magnitude of falls : a worldwide overview -- II. Active ageing: a framework for the global strategy for the prevention of falls in older age -- III. Determinants of active ageing as they relate to falls in older age -- IV. Challenges for prevention of falls in older age -- V. Examples of effective policies and interventions. |
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The WHO Falls Prevention for Active Ageing model provides an action plan for making progress in reducing the prevalence of falls in the older adult population. By building on the three pillars of falls prevention, the model proposes specific strategies for:. 1. building awareness of the importance of falls prevention and treatment;. 2. improving the assessment of individual, environmental, and societal |
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factors that increase the likelihood of falls; and. 3. for facilitating the design and implementation of culturally-appropriate, evidence-based interventions that will significantly reduce the n |
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UNINA9910459464603321 |
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Ancient graffiti in context / / edited by J.A. Baird and Claire Taylor |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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1-136-89463-2 |
1-136-89464-0 |
1-282-92995-X |
9786612929953 |
0-203-84087-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Routledge studies in ancient history ; ; v. 2 |
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BairdJennifer A. <1978-> |
TaylorClaire <1978-> |
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Civilization, Ancient |
Classical antiquities |
Graffiti - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Ancient Graffi ti in Context: Introduction; 2 Dialogues of Graffiti in the House of the Four Styles at Pompeii (Casa Dei Quattro Stili, I.8.17, 11); 3 The Graffiti of Dura-Europos: A Contextual Approach; 4 Identifying Children's Graffiti in Roman Campania: A Developmental Psychological Approach; 5 Graffiti and the Epigraphic Habit: Creating Communities and Writing Alternate Histories in Classical Attica; 6 Transcripts of Dissent?: Political Graffiti and Elite Ideology Under the Principate |
7 The Materiality of Graffiti: Socialising a Lekythos in Pherai8 Egyptian 'Inscriptions' and Greek 'Graffiti' at El Kanais in the Egyptian Eastern |
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Desert; 9 Blogging Rome: Graffiti as Speech-Act and Cultural Discourse; 10 Graffiti in Aphrodisias: Images-Texts-Contexts; Contributors; Bibliography; Index |
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Graffiti are ubiquitous within the ancient world, but remain underexploited as a form of archaeological or historical evidence. They include a great variety of texts and images written or drawn inside and outside buildings, in public and private places, on monuments in the city, on objects used in daily life, and on mountains in the countryside. In each case they can be seen as actively engaging with their environment in a variety of ways. Ancient Graffiti in Context interrogates this cultural phenomenon and by doing so, brings it into the mainstream of ancient history and archaeol |
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