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A Research On Health Status Of The Elderly In Changchun City And Its Influence Factors

Posted on:2012-08-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F F JiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2154330332997202Subject:Demography
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With the decline in fertility and increased life expectancy, an increasingly large elderly population, which is the inevitable result of social development, human society is the inevitable trend of the development process. Health problems of older persons have an impact on the quality of life of older persons and socio-economic development of one of the major factors, causing widespread concern of scholars home and abroad. Concerned about the health of the elderly about their health status in the problems and the factors that affect their health in order to better develop our policies related to older persons, to provide comprehensive services for the elderly, thereby improving the quality of life of older persons Necessary, and it is very important.Health is a comprehensive concept. Health status of people is overall performance in the process of socio-economic development. Health status of older persons is multidimensional and dynamic. Health status problem is how to measure it. General scholars of Health of the Elderly in China, health evaluation of older persons, mainly from objective indicators and subjective indicators to measure both. This article from the health self-assessment, basic daily living and chronic disease to examine three aspects of the health status of older persons. Health self-assessment mainly on the physical health of older persons to their own subjective evaluation, the analysis of the basic daily living activities by the elderly in the ability to measure the daily living conditions of older persons, mainly of elderly chronic diseases and its influencing factors.The thesis carries out descriptive statistical analysis and multivariate Logistic regression analysis on survey data through SPSS, the data which is obtained form the survey of Northeast Asia Research Institute of Jilin University, Population Resources and Environment Institute, " the living conditions of the elderly aged demand for public services and research, " research group of seven communities in Changchun City. The article not only analyzes the health of the elderly in Changchun City, the self-assessment, basic daily living and chronic disease and individual factors, socio-economic and lifestyle factors such as the link between, but also makes multivariate Logistic regression analysis on the main factors that affect the self-assessment, basic life skills and self-care and chronic diseases of the elderly in Changchun City.The results show that the factors that affect the health of the elderly in Changchun City are wide. The health of the elderly is not only associated with sex, age and other demographic factors, but also with the socio-economic status, lifestyle, illness and injury status. We concern about the health of the elderly, not only from the point of view to solve the existing problems of the elderly, but also from the entire life cycle to realize the future life of older persons health and healthy aging; not only from the attention to the elderly individual's health, but also from the social and economic health of the elderly operating environment in many ways. Finally, the essay put forward corresponding countermeasures to further improve the health of the elderly, to improve and perfect the old social security system and social service system.
Keywords/Search Tags:Elderly, Health status indicators, Influential factor
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