التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Analysis of perception of health status of elderly from the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte city |
| المؤلفون: |
Carvalho,Fabrício Franco, Santos,Juliana Nunes, Souza,Luiza de Marilac de, Souza,Nícia Raies Moreira de |
| المصدر: |
Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging v.5 n.4 2011 |
| بيانات النشر: |
Sociedade Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia |
| سنة النشر: |
2011 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Ageing, perception, public health, health of the elderly |
| الوصف: |
OBJECTIVE: To analyze how the elderly population in the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte perceive their own health situation. METHOD: This is a transversal descriptive study that was made after an analysis of the database of PAD (Household Sample Survey) conducted by Fundação João Pinheiro in 2009 surveyed 17.000 households distributed by the Minas Gerais State. In such research were analyzed the variables self-perceived health status; presence of illnesses that require constant care; smoking; regular physical activities; working; education and pension benefits for people aged 60 years and over from Belo Horizonte city. RESULTS: The study interviewed 963 people aged 60 years and over. Fifty eight point two percent of the sample are women, mean age of 69.4 years and 44% reported health status as "very good or good" and 10.7% "bad or very bad". From the subjects who reported having health problems that require constant monitoring (n = 960), 42% suffer of arterial hypertension. Seventy eight point five percent can be considered illiterate; 67.9% received retirement or pension in the reference month of the survey; 25% reported performing regular physical activity; 10.7% declared their health state as being "bad or very bad". CONCLUSION: The self-perception of health status is worse among the elderly has reported chronic diseases, poor education, lack of working habits and reducing physical activity (p < 0,05). These results can be considered as crucial information to help in the search for implementing better government funded programs to assist the elderly population of Minas Gerais. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: |
text/html |
| اللغة: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://ggaging.com/details/221 |
| الاتاحة: |
https://ggaging.com/details/221 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.6030F60C |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |