tailieunhanh - Health Promotion for the Elderly in Peru, Bolivia and Chile

Physical and health risks are very high among the aged. The precise implications of population aging for future levels of health and health care utilisation depend on whether the increases in life expectancy experienced in general are accompanied by an increase or decrease in health problems in later life (Gruenberg, 1977; Kramer, 1980; Manton, 1982). Studies in the West show that fast decline in the mortality in the old population is creating a nightmare with high incidence of morbidity (Hainess, 1995). The changing pattern of morbidity puts thr elderly in a situation of risk in old age where. | KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE Institutionen for folkhalsovetenskap Avdelningen for socialmedicin Health Promotion for the Elderly in Peru Bolivia and Chile Sonia Vasquez THESIS FOR DEGREE OF MASTER IN HEALTH PROMOTION Spring 2005 Handledare PROFESSOR BO J A Haglund Report series of Master theses in Public Health These reports come from the Board of Education in Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet. The master education of Public Health at KI is a collaborative work of mainly three departments Department of Public Health Sciences The Department of Biosciences at Novum Division of Preventive Nutrition and The Institute of Environmental Medicine. These reports are presented as pdf files on the webbpages of Master of Public Health Education at Karolinska Institutet Leif Svanstrom Professor and Programme Director 2 Contents LIST OF 1. 2. Global Goals for Health Promotion in Older Approaches to Health Promotion for Older The cultural change The structural change Intersectoral Community-based Family-based The individual Theoretical Models for Health Promotion in Older Individual-Level Community-Based Methods of implementing health-promotion Social 3. 4. 5. MATERIAL AND Criteria for Search Selection of articles in the database Analysing 6. 6. 1Health Promotion Programmes in World Health Oral Physical