Population aging challenge – the conference at Jagiellonian University and research Cover Image

Starzenie się populacji; co wiemy o problemie i jak możemy się przygotować na sprostanie wyzwaniu demograficznemu? Konferencja w UJ CM
Population aging challenge – the conference at Jagiellonian University and research

Author(s): Ewa Kocot, Katarzyna Dubas, Maciej Rogala
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: demographic changes; population aging; researc

Summary/Abstract: The population aging process is inherent feature of all contemporary societies. It places enormous pressure on all countries health and social systems. The demographic changes lead to both the organizational as well as financial challenges. The aim of the article is to present the scope and diversity of the ‘population aging’ influence on the health care sector – by description of various, related researches, projects and activities conducted within the past several years, in Europe and Poland. The authors provide brief summaries of contemporary researches and analyze the effects of the population aging on the Polish health care system in its: organizational (human resources), financial (costs of treatment, public expenditure) and social (disability, informal care) aspects. The need for comprehensive (combining education, labour, health and social sectors), long-term strategy focused on the population aging challenge is emphasized

  • Issue Year: 10/2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 58-71
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish