Disease Trends and the Delivery of Health Care Services

Table of Contents

Age Composition of America1

Future Development of the Age Structure1

Environmental Factors & Changing Demographics2

Reduce Health Complications Related To Aging4

Obesity in America5

Obesity Soars in USA6

The Future of Health Care Services7

Disease Trends and the Delivery of Health Care Services

Age Composition of America

The age structure of the population is the allocation of population by age group and age contingent. Information on the age structure of the population is necessary to study many of the socio-economic and demographic processes. Knowing the characteristics of the age structure of population in a given period of time, can build well-founded assumptions about future trends in fertility and mortality and other demographic processes of reproduction of the population as a whole (Sacks, 2000).

Knowing these characteristics, it is possible to evaluate the likelihood of any problems in the economic and social spheres, to predict the demand for certain goods or services, the results of elections in a particular region, etc (Avis, 2007). Usually, the age structure is constructed and viewed simultaneously with the sexual structure of the population. In this case, it is called age-sex or age-sex structure of the population and showed the distribution of the numbers of each sex by age and sex ratios in each age or within each age group. The age structure of the U.S. population, age (2011):

0-14 - 20.4% (male 31,100,000. / Female 29.8 million);

15-64 - 67.2% (male 100,000,000. / Female 100.4 million);

65 or more - 12.5% (male 15,500,000. / Female 21.6 million).

Future Development of the Age Structure

"The changing age structure is much more far-reaching consequences than the population decline have. This is especially true for the now-onset engagement of baby boomers in the workforce. The working population is older on average. This will cause the face of rapid technological and economic change qualification residues and make more and more training needed. In addition, it is doubtful that the experience advantage of the growing number of elderly will offset the declining work finished adaptation and mobility readiness (Crimmins, 2004).

The demand for paid work but will gradually increase due to the onset of labor migration and increasing participation rates of women for the time being even slightly and shrink until the year 2010. This decline is then, however, being serious. Today's immigration figures of approximately 200,000 people and increase participation rates provided in the future, be up to the year 2040, seven to eight million labor force, representing a fifth of today's less available (Zacks, 2000).

Environmental Factors & Changing Demographics

In developed countries, the proportion of people over 65 years now stands at 10-14% of the population, and the 20th of the next century, this value is doubled. The fastest growth will be the proportion of very old people with age 80 years or more. This category is much more than others in need of medical assistance and other forms of social security. Their number in the next decade will increase by 300%. This phenomenon leads to a significant increase in the dependency ratio in ...