Research Synopses: Public Health and Healthy Ageing
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The Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group of the HKU Faculty of Dentistry is committed to protecting and improving oral health for all people by performing and synthesising clinical, community-level, and educational research, and by applying public health sciences. Below is a selection of summaries of research findings published by the Public Health and Healthy Ageing Research Group, with online links to abstracts or full papers in Medline.
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Predictors of healthy ageing: public health policy targets
BACKGROUND The public health policy agenda oriented towards healthy ageing becomes the highest priority for the European countries. The article discusses the healthy ageing concept and its possible determinants with an aim to identify behavioral patterns related to healthy ageing in selected European countries. METHODS The healthy ageing is assessed based on a composite indicator of self-asse...
متن کاملSuccessful Ageing in the Dimensions of Life Satisfaction and Perception of Ageing in the Iranian Elderly Adults Referring to the Health Center in the West of Tehran, Iran
Background & Aims: Achieving the goals of successful ageing is considered to be an effective strategy for the promotion of health in the elderly. The concept of healthy and successful ageing encompasses significant components, including life satisfaction, positive perception of the changes in old age, longevity, lack of disability, and independence in life. The present study aimed to assess suc...
متن کاملCRITICAL POSITIONS IN AGEING RESEARCH European silver paper on the future of health promotion and preventive actions, basic research, and clinical aspects of age-related disease
Ageing of populations is one of the highest achievements of humankind, and Europe is leading this successful story. However, ageing and age-related disease is also a mounting challenge for individuals, for health care systems and for biological, psychosocial, epidemiological, medical and public health sciences. Many scientists from every single area of knowledge and science are actively working...
متن کاملAgeing and immunity: addressing immune senescence to ensure healthy ageing.
Among the greatest achievements of the 20th century, prolongation of life expectancy has been the result of improved health conditions, decreased childhood mortality, lower incidence of infectious diseases. The consequence is the rapid ageing of the world population, with the elderly representing over 25% of the entire population by the year 2030, of which 75% living in less developed countries...
متن کاملIndicators for Healthy Ageing — A Debate
Definitions of healthy ageing include survival to a specific age, being free of chronic diseases, autonomy in activities of daily living, wellbeing, good quality of life, high social participation, only mild cognitive or functional impairment, and little or no disability. The working group Epidemiology of Ageing of the German Association of Epidemiology organized a workshop in 2012 with the aim...
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تاریخ انتشار 2014