Amasa B Ford

Biographic Data

ID1738346
NAMEAmasa B Ford
GIVEN NAMESAmasa B
FAMILY NAMEFord
SIGNATUREFORD A B
AFFILIATIONSCase Western Reserve University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1964
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
H-INDEX3

  • Sustained Personal Autonomy: A Measure of Successful Aging

    Open AccessAmasa B Ford, Marie R Haug et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2000Cited by: 4References: 8

    The results are consistent with previous studies of successful aging and show that attitudes expressed at baseline favoring personal independence are associated with sustained autonomy during a period of at least 2 years

  • Impaired and disabled elderly in the community

    Amasa B Ford, A W Roy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1991References: 5

    A nine-year representative, longitudinal study of 1,598 urban elderly shows that two to eight times as many impaired or disabled are cared for in the community as in institutions. Younger age, male gender, better income, and living with others, especially children, favor continuing care in the home

  • Reducing the threat of hip fracture

    Amasa B FordARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1989Cited by: 3References: 19

    Reducing the threat of hip fracture. A B FordCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.79.3.269 Published Online: October 07, 2011

  • The Physical and Mental Health of Aged Women

    Margaret Huyck, Margaret Hellie Huyck et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

  • Aging 2000: A challenge for society

    Open AccessAmasa B FordARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1983

  • Assessing the Elderly: A Practical Guide to Measurement

    Amasa B FordARTICLEMedical Care1982

  • Is Health Promotion Affordable for the Elderly

    Amasa B FordARTICLEFamily & Community Health1981

    Professor of Community Health and Family Medicine Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio

  • Violent death in a metropolitan county: II. Changing patterns in suicides (1959-1974)

    Amasa B Ford, Norman B Rushforth et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1979Cited by: 3References: 12

    Suicide rates in Cuyahoga County (metropolitan Cleveland) rose from 10.2 in 1958 to 12.5 per 100,000 populations in 1974 (23 per cent increase) with the greatest rise among nonwhite males (from 5.9 to 13.1, or 122 per cent). Increased rates were observed in both the city (19 per cent increase) and suburbs (35 per cent increase). Rates increased among young non-white and white adults of both sexes aged 15--34 years, but decreased slightly among ad…

  • The Quandaries of Health Policy: Medicine, Prevention, and Specialism

    Frank J Thompson, Karen Davis et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1979

  • Urban Health in America

    Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Amasa B Ford et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1977

  • Continuing care in a community hospital

    Open AccessAmasa B FordARTICLESocial Science & Medicine (19671973

  • Chronic-disease Classification in Evaluation of Medical Care Programs

    Sidney Katz, Amasa B Ford et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1969

    For ideal classification of chronic disease in large populations, identification of the presence or absence of every chronic disease in every person would be desirable, as would knowledge of specific causes and pathogenesis, means to define cause, measure severity, and identify important milestones. The authors have approached the problems by analyzing advantages and disadvantages of certain aids to classification of chronic disease, namely, cate…

  • The Doctor-Patient Relationship as Described by Physicians and Medical Students

    Robert S Ort, Amasa B Ford et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Human…1964

    Robert S. Ort, Amasa B. Ford, Ralph E. Liske, The Doctor-Patient Relationship as Described by Physicians and Medical Students, Journal of Health and Human Behavior, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring, 1964), pp. 25-34