人口老龄化与医疗卫生保健的可持续发展

Population aging and a sustainable development of medical care

论述了当前快速发展的老龄化社会老年人口的医疗保健特点及在医疗卫生保健领域的影响，提出如果不在下世纪人口老龄化的高峰到来之前作好准备，将会在面临高度老龄化的社会时手足无措。因此，政府应针对老年保健的特点，采取相应的可持续发展战略，立足预防为主，加强老年病防治，广泛宣传，增强老年自我保健意识，发展社区医疗保健模式，培养社区医疗保健骨干，建立老年医疗保险制度，实现健康的老龄化。

The medical care features of the aged population in a rapidly aging society and their impact on the field of medical care are here discussed. The point is raised that if preparatory steps are not taken before the peak of population aging arrives sometime in the next century, we shall be in a fluster. In the light of the medical care characteristics of the elderly, the government should develop a sustainable medical care program, giving priority to prevention, enhancing prophylactic treatment of geriatric disorders, giving wider publicity to healthkeeping, cultivating higher sense of selfcare among old persons, seeking a model of community medical care, training a backbone of medical personnel for the communities, and establishing a medical insurance system for the aged, so as to make their terminal life a healthy one.