The need of creating promotion and prevention programs in third age people

Authors

  • Julio César Rangel Rivera Facultad de Estomatología. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana
  • Gema Lauzardo García del Prado Facultad de Estomatología. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana
  • Maritzabel Quintana Castillo Facultad de Estomatología. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana
  • María Elena Gutiérrez Hernández Facultad de Estomatología. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana
  • Norlistaymi Gutiérrez Hernández Facultad de Estomatología. Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana

Keywords:

Old age persons, promotion and prevention

Abstract

At the present time health promotion and prevention has a significant place in
Stomatology world, this is necessary to assess and to renovate our programs in
such a way that each time it be more preventive and educational, to improve life
quality of our patients. Geriatric population has showed a intense growing at
national land international scale, whose estimate of the people older than 60 years
will increase for 2010 year in a 17% or more. We must to think about that every
day more persons exceed the chronologic barriers placed by men as a stage of old
age, converting thus population aging in a challenge for present societies, since
although we consider it as one of more important achievement of the mankind, and
at the same time it is transformed in a problem, if we not be able to give proper
solutions to consequences derived from it. These bibliographic reviews try to update
the knowledges on need of to apply a promotion and prevention program that being
of benefit for patients older than 60 years or more, rehabilitated or not from the
point of view prosthestic.

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Published

2009-01-16

How to Cite

1.
Rangel Rivera JC, Lauzardo García del Prado G, Quintana Castillo M, Gutiérrez Hernández ME, Gutiérrez Hernández N. The need of creating promotion and prevention programs in third age people. Rev Cubana Estomatol [Internet]. 2009 Jan. 16 [cited 2025 Jun. 19];46(1):30-9. Available from: https://revestomatologia.sld.cu/index.php/est/article/view/2602

Issue

Vol. 46 No. 1 (2009): JAN- MAR

Section

Review Article

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