Envelhecimento populacional contemporâneo

Demandas, desafios e inovações

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9259583
AutoresRenato Veras, Renato Peixoto Veras (0000-0002-2499-1801, Universidade Aberta, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas548-554
Fecha de publicación2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRevista de Saúde Pública (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-8910 • E-ISSN: 0034-8910
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0034-89102009000300020
PMID19377752
OpenAlexW2108218494
SCIELO_PIDS0034-89102009000300020
IdiomaPT
Citas recibidas89
Referencias citadas14

The paper discusses the social and, particularly, the health consequences resulting from the expansion of the numbers of elderly people in Brazil over a short period. The data used were from the 1998 and 2003 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD, the national household sampling survey), and they express an improvement in elderly people's health conditions and similar distribution of chronic diseases across all income groups. If, on the one hand, elderly people present greater disease burden and incapacities and they use healthcare services more, on the other hand, the current models for healthcare for the elderly are shown to be inefficient and high-cost. Creative and innovative structures are required, such as social centers with health assessments and treatment. Foremost on the agenda for Brazilian public policy, priority should be given to maintaining elderly people's functional capacity, with monitoring of their health conditions; preventive and differentiated actions relating to health and education; and qualified care and multidimensional comprehensive attendance

Attendance · Business · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economics · Elderly people · Health care · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care · Medicine · Gerontology