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May 2003, Vol 93, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 700-701
© 2003 American Public Health Association

LETTER

PUBLIC HEALTH AND AGING

John E. Crews, DPA and Suzanne M. Smith, MD, MPH, MPA

John E. Crews is with the Disability and Health Team, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, and Suzanne M. Smith is with the Health Care and Aging Studies Branch, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, both at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to John E. Crews, DPA, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clinton Rd, F-35, Atlanta, GA 30333 (e-mail: jcrews@cdc.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We wish to applaud the authors of the editorial "Public Health and the Second 50 Years of Life" in the August 2002 issue of the Journal for highlighting the need to bring more attention to public health and aging.1 The Journal editors are to be congratulated, as well, for printing an article that uses the recent publication record of the Journal itself as evidence for the paucity of published public health research that includes older adults. Because public health is in large part responsible for the unprecedented gains in life expectancy seen in the past century,2 we hope that public . . . [Full Text]






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