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The World Health Organization (WHO) approach to healthy ageing

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ID23354477
AuthorsEwa Rudnicka (0000-0002-8738-2739, Medical University of Warsaw), Paulina Napierała (0000-0002-2826-8012, Poznan University of Medical Sciences), Agnieszka Podfigurna (Poznan University of Medical Sciences), Błażej Męczekalski (0000-0002-0761-5775, Poznan University of Medical Sciences), Roman Smolarczyk (0000-0002-4420-5433, Medical University of Warsaw), Monika Grymowicz (0000-0002-3161-0886, Medical University of Warsaw, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume139
Pages6-11
Publication date2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMaturitas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0378-5122 • E-ISSN: 1873-4111
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.maturitas.2020.05.018
PMID32747042
OpenAlexW3032592468
LanguageEN
Citations received183
References cited26

The ageing of the global population is the most important medical and social demographic problem worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined healthy ageing as a process of maintaining functional ability to enable wellbeing in older age. The WHO, Member States and Partners for Sustainable Development Goals have created a Global Strategy and Action Plan for Ageing and Health for 2016-2020 and its continuation with the WHO programme The Decade of Healthy Ageing 2020-2030. The WHO has established main priorities such as supporting country planning and action, collecting better global data and promoting research on healthy ageing, aligning health systems to the needs of older people, laying the foundations and ensuring the human resources necessary for long-term integrated care, undertaking a global campaign to combat ageism, and enhancing the global network for age-friendly cities and communities. There are several reports of coordinated preventive health and social health initiatives in well developed countries. However, there is little evidence on the application of the active ageing frameworks in developing countries. Greater national capacities and closer monitoring of the progress through age-disaggregated data is needed to effectively implement the intended programmes on healthy ageing.

Action (physics) · Action plan · Active ageing · Ageing · Ageing society · Economic growth · Environmental health · Global health · Health care · Healthy ageing · Older people · Population · Population ageing · Public health · Frailty in Older Adults · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Nursing · Gerontology

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