Manton K G
Duke University.
Milbank Q. 1991;69(2):309-38.
The dynamics of population aging will broadly shape future social and economic conditions in the United States and in many other developed countries. Although the quantitative dimension of population aging is easily characterized, the associated forces producing changes in health and functioning among individuals are less well understood. For 14 years the Milbank Quarterly, under the editorship of David Willis, fostered research into the interaction of demographic, epidemiological, public health, and clinical factors in order better to understand population aging. The Quarterly spurred the collection of longitudinal data, based on representative samples of the U.S. elderly and oldest-old populations, which were crucial to efforts to answer critical questions about anticipated changes in health and functional status as the population ages. This research will give us a better grasp of the policy and service implications of an aging population.
人口老龄化的动态变化将在很大程度上塑造美国以及许多其他发达国家未来的社会和经济状况。虽然人口老龄化的数量维度很容易描述，但导致个体健康和功能发生变化的相关因素却鲜为人知。在大卫·威利斯担任主编的14年间，《米尔班克季刊》推动了对人口统计学、流行病学、公共卫生和临床因素之间相互作用的研究，以便更好地理解人口老龄化。该季刊促使人们基于美国老年人和高龄老人的代表性样本收集纵向数据，这些数据对于解答随着人口老龄化健康和功能状况预期变化的关键问题至关重要。这项研究将使我们更好地理解老龄化人口的政策和服务影响。
