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Envejecimiento y salud: un cambio de paradigma

dc.date.accessioned2015
dc.date.available2015
dc.date.issued2000es_ES
dc.identifier.citation(2000) Envejecimiento y salud: un cambio de paradigma. Rev Panam Salud Publica;7(1) -,jan. 2000. Retrieved from http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892000000100021&lng=pt&nrm=isoes_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1020-49892000000100021&lng=pt&nrm=isoes_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://iris.paho.org/handle/10665.2/8865
dc.format.extenttabes_ES
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRev Panam Salud Publica;7(1),ene. 2000es_ES
dc.subjectEnvelhecimentoes_ES
dc.subjectSaúde do Idosopt_BR
dc.subjectServiços de Saúde para Idosospt_BR
dc.subjectLongevidadees_ES
dc.subjectPlanejamento em Saúdept_BR
dc.subjectAméricases_ES
dc.titleEnvejecimiento y salud: un cambio de paradigmaes_ES
dc.title.alternativeAging and health: a shift in the paradigmen_US
dc.typeJournal articlesen_US
dc.rights.holderPan American Health Organizationen_US
dc.description.notesThe aging of the population due to increasing life spans requires a reevaluation of the health care models that prevail in the countries of the Region of the Americas, given that the illnesses typical of old age make up an ever-increasing share of the morbidity burden. The countries in the Region are in an intermediate stage of demographic trnsition. They face the challenge of balancing priority care for the health problems characteristic of developing countries along with care for the chronic and debilitatin diseases that afflict the elderly. An even greater challenge is gauging, in a timely manner, the health, social, and economic consequences of the demographic transition over the next millennium, to allow the countries to respond to these consequences through an in -depth restructuring of their health and social services. The extension of human life imposes a new vision of the health of the elderly that is oriented toward self-sufficiency, economic independence, and living life to its fullest. It will not be easy to integrate this new paradigm into the countries' health services, which are now primarily oriented toward curative care and are structured to fulfill the requirements of an epidemiological scenario that is undergoing a rapid transformation. The challenge is even greater because of the wide range of needs that the elderly have across countries with varying degrees of development. Nevertheless, sooner or later the governments of all the countries of the Region will be forced to adopt concrete measures to deal with the problems posed by the population's gradual agingen_US


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