TRANSIÇÃO DEMOGRÁFICA, TRANSIÇÃO EPIDEMIOLÓGICA E ENVELHECIMENTO POPULACIONAL NO BRASIL

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Anderson Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hygeia (Uberlândia)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/hygeia/article/view/48614
• topic: Envelhecimento populacional; Transição demográfica; Transição Epidemiológica; Aging population; Demographic transition; Epidemiological transition

Demographic Transition, Epidemiological Transition and Population Aging are interconnected processes and produce significant impacts on society. The change in demographic behavior, presenting different stages, is currently at the stage where fertility is reduced to minimum levels, impacting on the fall of the participation of the group of the children in the population, while the reduction of mortality and the elevation of the expectation contribute to the increase of the weight of the elderly group. As more people reach higher ages, there is a change in the pattern of diseases that affect the majority of the population and are the main causes of death. With older people, the typical diseases of aging take the lead in the diseases that most affect the population and cause most of the deaths. With the reduction of the group of children and the sustained increase of the group of the elderly, there is an intensification of the aging population, a process that causes profound changes in individuals, families and society as a whole and which requires a total adaptation of public policies to attend to citizens over 60 years of age.