The number and proportion of people aged 60 years and older are increasing. According to the WHO website, in 2019, there are around 1 billion people aged 60 years. This number will increase to 1.4 billion by 2030 and 2.1 billion by 2050. This increase occurs at an unprecedented pace and will accelerate in the coming decades, particularly in developing countries. This historical change in the global population requires much more adaptations to all sectors, including health and social care. Meanwhile, chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, etc., are growing public health problems due to the aging population. These chronic diseases occurring in the elderly bring several new issues, including rehabilitation, economic burden, and mental pressure on them and their family. We should be concerned about the clinical practice and the education to cultivate medical students to solve the challenges above. Thus, medical or health-related education reforms are required to deal with the trends and achieve healthy aging.
In this Research Topic, we seek to provide a forum for a comprehensive overview of the public health issues and educational reform practice for the health workforce. The topic mainly (but not exclusively) focuses on high-quality research studies carried out from population, institutional, and systematical perspectives. In addition, it is wildly accepted that chronic disease prevention, rehabilitation, and health promotion may be effective in improving the health status of the older population. Thus, we greatly encourage contributions providing innovative methods and assessment of incorporating core public health issues and educational reform practice under aging. Both ongoing and completed original research work are welcome.
Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Opinion articles are welcome, and areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Situation and trends of elderly public health issues research, practice, and policy.
• Novel ideas and strategies of managements in targeting chronic diseases
• Development and evaluation of public health system regionally or nationally.
• National and international medical or public health education reform and practice on training qualified students and workers.
• Implementation and evaluation of integrating public health, rehabilitation content in the medical curricula.
• Health-related workforce (doctor, nurse, therapist, carer, etc.) education and training for elderly.
The number and proportion of people aged 60 years and older are increasing. According to the WHO website, in 2019, there are around 1 billion people aged 60 years. This number will increase to 1.4 billion by 2030 and 2.1 billion by 2050. This increase occurs at an unprecedented pace and will accelerate in the coming decades, particularly in developing countries. This historical change in the global population requires much more adaptations to all sectors, including health and social care. Meanwhile, chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, etc., are growing public health problems due to the aging population. These chronic diseases occurring in the elderly bring several new issues, including rehabilitation, economic burden, and mental pressure on them and their family. We should be concerned about the clinical practice and the education to cultivate medical students to solve the challenges above. Thus, medical or health-related education reforms are required to deal with the trends and achieve healthy aging.
In this Research Topic, we seek to provide a forum for a comprehensive overview of the public health issues and educational reform practice for the health workforce. The topic mainly (but not exclusively) focuses on high-quality research studies carried out from population, institutional, and systematical perspectives. In addition, it is wildly accepted that chronic disease prevention, rehabilitation, and health promotion may be effective in improving the health status of the older population. Thus, we greatly encourage contributions providing innovative methods and assessment of incorporating core public health issues and educational reform practice under aging. Both ongoing and completed original research work are welcome.
Original Research, Review, Mini Review, Opinion articles are welcome, and areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Situation and trends of elderly public health issues research, practice, and policy.
• Novel ideas and strategies of managements in targeting chronic diseases
• Development and evaluation of public health system regionally or nationally.
• National and international medical or public health education reform and practice on training qualified students and workers.
• Implementation and evaluation of integrating public health, rehabilitation content in the medical curricula.
• Health-related workforce (doctor, nurse, therapist, carer, etc.) education and training for elderly.
