Public Health, Nutrition & Epidemiology

Biography

Biography: Mônica Guimarães Macau Lopes

Abstract

These are the main phenomena related to the demographic transition, fertility, birth rate, migration and mortality. Some factors exert an influence on these rates, to a greater or lesser degree, such as economics, climatic variations, cultural changes, wars and epidemics. In the countries of the so-called "old world", the demographic transition has been taking place more slowly and gradually, with capital accumulation, in order to enrich before aging. Thus, the slower transition makes it possible to draw up strategies, develop social support through policies, and improve social security services in the long run. Brazil is against the grain: it ages first and then defines strategies. The factors for the rapid aging of the population are diverse, but it is worth emphasizing socio-sanitary improvements, social policies and a decrease in the birth rate. These are important changes that have occurred in the last 50 years and that make us reflect on the quality of life of the Brazilian elderly, getting older today and in the coming years. And, in this sense, seek to understand the impact it should generate in terms of demands and offers in various sectors and the socioeconomic consequences on governments and society in general. Impact that goes beyond social security benefits.

This work is based on the Brazilian demographic transition and the adopted or adoptive measures, and aims to identify elements that subsidize the formulation of development strategies for Brazil. By delineating the services that most absorb the elderly, from health promotion, healthy eating and exercise practices, to hospital admissions and medications, considers for the analysis, the resources made available and executed, according to morbidity, for days hospitalized, ICU (hospital costs in general), surgeries, dental prostheses and medications, as well as the number of home care teams.