Morbidity Prevention in Aging
The Role of Salutogenesis Amidst Crises
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2027
- Latest edition
- Editors: Nestor Asiamah, Hafiz T.A. Khan, Whitney Nesser, Evelyn Alvarez
- Language: English
Morbidity Prevention in Aging: The Role of Salutogenesis Amidst Crises addresses the urgent need to rethink disease prevention strategies for an aging population. The book begins… Read more
Description
Description
Morbidity Prevention in Aging: The Role of Salutogenesis Amidst Crises addresses the urgent need to rethink disease prevention strategies for an aging population. The book begins by exploring how age-friendly environments support health-seeking behaviors. The next section focuses on developing personal skills such as resilience and self-efficacy for maintaining health during crises. Section III examines the reorientation of health services to support preventive care, including community care and diet promotion, while Section IV addresses the creation of policies that facilitate health-promoting interventions and integrate prevention strategies. Community engagement and empowerment in promoting health is emphasized in the fifth section.
The book concludes by providing a framework for understanding disease prevention amidst crises, focusing on diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic experiences and ensuring equitable opportunities for lifelong disease prevention. This groundbreaking book emphasizes a salutogenic approach that focuses on factors promoting health rather than merely treating diseases. It provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how to maintain health and prevent diseases across the lifespan, even amidst challenges such as wars, climate change, and industrial hazards.
The book concludes by providing a framework for understanding disease prevention amidst crises, focusing on diverse racial, cultural, and socioeconomic experiences and ensuring equitable opportunities for lifelong disease prevention. This groundbreaking book emphasizes a salutogenic approach that focuses on factors promoting health rather than merely treating diseases. It provides a comprehensive framework for understanding how to maintain health and prevent diseases across the lifespan, even amidst challenges such as wars, climate change, and industrial hazards.
Key features
Key features
- Offers multidisciplinary perspectives and insights from medicine, sociology, and architecture, addressing varied cultural and socioeconomic needs
- Provides research-based chapters that follow STROBE guidelines, ensuring high-quality, reproducible data for informed decision-making
- Includes innovative research methods, aiding in the design of robust studies on disease prevention amidst crises
- Addresses aging dynamics across marginalized communities, different religious groups, and varied income levels, thus promoting inclusive health strategies
Readership
Readership
Researchers, academics and students in the fields of gerontology/aging and geriatrics
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Morbidity prevention in aging: an introduction
Nestor Asiamah, Hafiz T.A. Khan, Whitney Nesser, Evelyn Alvarez
Section I: Age-friendly Environments and Healthy Aging
2. Preventive morbidity in aging: policy guide for the Integrated Model of Positive Aging Amidst Climate Threats
Nestor Asiamah, André Hajek, Hafiz T.A. Khan, Alex Siu Wing Chan, Happy Griffiths Njoekpume
3. Frailty and active ageing in place: a review of the supportive role of social networks
Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson, Romnalin Keanjoom, Asri Maharani, Gindo Tampubolon
4. From Disruption to Appraisal in Transitional Built Environments: Perceived Safety Accessibility Responsiveness Framework for Psychosocial Adaptation
Nana Benyi Ansah, Samuel Ntiamoah, Isaac Aidoo, Justice Agbevade
5. Neighborhood social networks for active aging: a typology and theoretical positioning
Nestor Asiamah, Amar Kanekar, Emelia Danquah
Section II: Reorienting Health Services for Healthy Aging
6. Disease prevention during climate change: a salutogenic perspective on pro-health behavior
Nestor Asiamah, Hafiz T.A. Khan, André Hajek, Assaf Suberry, Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson, Whitney Nesser, Emelia Danquah
7. Preventive healthcare during climate change: impacts and the way forward
Bilkis Banu
8. Social work’s role in lifespan health promotion during the climate crisis: a call to action
Özge Kutlu, Sevinç Sütlü, Mehmet Öçal
9. Impacts of wildfires on older adults’ health: implications for morbidity prevention during climate change
Naciely Hernandez, Evelyn Alvarez
10. Preventing falls among older adults during crises
Reza Nemati-Vakilabad
Section III: Role of Health-Promoting Activities in Adaptive Aging
11. Assessment of health promotion services available to older adults and the interventions of social workers in sustaining them in Nigeria
Blessing Ngowari Ramsey-Soroghaye, Uzoma Odera Okoye
12. Unexpected joy and inspired fellowship following war: Shared experience through intergenerational musical communitas
Assaf Suberry, Whitney Nesser
13. Maladaptive aging through the lens of the climate-driven suicidal continuum and strategies for risk reduction
Nestor Asiamah, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Andrew Kweku Conduah, Nana Benyi Ansah, Sanatu Mustapha Alidu, Janvier Gasana
14. Climate change and aging: disease prevention, impacts, and policy
Rika Yuliwulandari, Zulfan Febriawan, Debrina Kusuma Devi, Aulia Fahira
15. Volunteering during crises: sustaining opportunities and impact on healthy aging
Harun Aslan
Section IV: Healthy Aging in Vulnerable Groups and Contexts
16. Growing up in poverty and with multimorbidity in America, Britain, China, Europe, and Indonesia
Gindo Tampubolon
17. Impacts of wildfires on older adults’ volunteering engagement: considerations for future wildfire resiliency planning
Evelyn Alvarez
18. Salutogenic approaches to ageing in low-resource settings: insights from Ghana as a case study
Andrew Kweku Conduah, Mary Naana Essiaw
19. A scoping review of mental health and health care interventions for people living with HIV in Asia: implications for healthy ageing during crises
Alex Siu Wing Chan, Rayner Kay Jin Tan, Nestor Asiamah, Florence Wong, Phoenix Kit Han Mo
Nestor Asiamah, Hafiz T.A. Khan, Whitney Nesser, Evelyn Alvarez
Section I: Age-friendly Environments and Healthy Aging
2. Preventive morbidity in aging: policy guide for the Integrated Model of Positive Aging Amidst Climate Threats
Nestor Asiamah, André Hajek, Hafiz T.A. Khan, Alex Siu Wing Chan, Happy Griffiths Njoekpume
3. Frailty and active ageing in place: a review of the supportive role of social networks
Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson, Romnalin Keanjoom, Asri Maharani, Gindo Tampubolon
4. From Disruption to Appraisal in Transitional Built Environments: Perceived Safety Accessibility Responsiveness Framework for Psychosocial Adaptation
Nana Benyi Ansah, Samuel Ntiamoah, Isaac Aidoo, Justice Agbevade
5. Neighborhood social networks for active aging: a typology and theoretical positioning
Nestor Asiamah, Amar Kanekar, Emelia Danquah
Section II: Reorienting Health Services for Healthy Aging
6. Disease prevention during climate change: a salutogenic perspective on pro-health behavior
Nestor Asiamah, Hafiz T.A. Khan, André Hajek, Assaf Suberry, Snorri Bjorn Rafnsson, Whitney Nesser, Emelia Danquah
7. Preventive healthcare during climate change: impacts and the way forward
Bilkis Banu
8. Social work’s role in lifespan health promotion during the climate crisis: a call to action
Özge Kutlu, Sevinç Sütlü, Mehmet Öçal
9. Impacts of wildfires on older adults’ health: implications for morbidity prevention during climate change
Naciely Hernandez, Evelyn Alvarez
10. Preventing falls among older adults during crises
Reza Nemati-Vakilabad
Section III: Role of Health-Promoting Activities in Adaptive Aging
11. Assessment of health promotion services available to older adults and the interventions of social workers in sustaining them in Nigeria
Blessing Ngowari Ramsey-Soroghaye, Uzoma Odera Okoye
12. Unexpected joy and inspired fellowship following war: Shared experience through intergenerational musical communitas
Assaf Suberry, Whitney Nesser
13. Maladaptive aging through the lens of the climate-driven suicidal continuum and strategies for risk reduction
Nestor Asiamah, Edgar Ramos Vieira, Andrew Kweku Conduah, Nana Benyi Ansah, Sanatu Mustapha Alidu, Janvier Gasana
14. Climate change and aging: disease prevention, impacts, and policy
Rika Yuliwulandari, Zulfan Febriawan, Debrina Kusuma Devi, Aulia Fahira
15. Volunteering during crises: sustaining opportunities and impact on healthy aging
Harun Aslan
Section IV: Healthy Aging in Vulnerable Groups and Contexts
16. Growing up in poverty and with multimorbidity in America, Britain, China, Europe, and Indonesia
Gindo Tampubolon
17. Impacts of wildfires on older adults’ volunteering engagement: considerations for future wildfire resiliency planning
Evelyn Alvarez
18. Salutogenic approaches to ageing in low-resource settings: insights from Ghana as a case study
Andrew Kweku Conduah, Mary Naana Essiaw
19. A scoping review of mental health and health care interventions for people living with HIV in Asia: implications for healthy ageing during crises
Alex Siu Wing Chan, Rayner Kay Jin Tan, Nestor Asiamah, Florence Wong, Phoenix Kit Han Mo
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 1, 2027
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
Nestor Asiamah
Editor
Nestor Asiamah, PhD, Lecturer and Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Health and Social Care, University of Essex, UK, is Director and Global Coordinator of the International Sustainable Ageing Research Group (ISARG), Subject Editor (Public Health) for Social Sciences & Humanities Open, and Editor-in-Chief of Morbidity Prevention in Ageing. His expertise spans gerontology, research methodology, medical statistics, and psychometrics, with research on healthy ageing, physical activity, and the occupational and environmental determinants of health in later life. He has edited multiple books and serves on several committees and editorial boards.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer and Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Health and Social Care, University of Essex, UKHafiz T.A. Khan
Editor
Hafiz T.A. Khan, PhD, Professor of Public Health and Statistics, University of West London, UK, and Professorial Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK. His expertise spans public health, medical statistics, population ageing, and disaster medicine. He has published in international health journals and has held editorial roles with health sciences journals. His work applies statistical and epidemiological methods to ageing, population health, and health system resilience.
Affiliations and expertise
Professorial Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of OxfordWhitney Nesser
Editor
Whitney Nesser, PhD, MBA, MCHES is a Professor and Gerontology Program Director in the Department of Applied Clinical and Educational Sciences at Indiana State University. Her primary focus is on research and teaching about quality of life, aging, and intergenerationology. Her PhD is in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Gerontology Program Director, Department of Applied Clinical and Educational Sciences, Indiana State University, USAEvelyn Alvarez
Editor
Dr. Evelyn Alvarez, PhD, MPH, is an environmental health professor and geospatial scientist at California State University, Los Angeles specializing in web-based and smartphone environmental community science applications and wearable technology to promote environmental justice and build healthy communities. Her research also investigates the nexus between sustainable aging and green spaces, and resilience-building strategies in response to pandemics and climate change. She earned her PhD in environmental health science from UCLA, focusing on hospital environments, copper antimicrobial surfaces, and hospital-acquired infections, and her MPH in environmental health sciences from Columbia University. Dr. Alvarez's research interests include underrepresented narratives in climate change and sustainable living. Her mentees received the 2020 APHA Student Champions for Climate Justice award for an environmental justice project on campus. She has contributed significantly to advancing environmental health and justice through her innovative research and mentorship.
Affiliations and expertise
Environmental Health Scientist and Professor, California State University, Los Angeles, USA