Ageing and Life Course

The implications for training of embracing: A life course approach to health

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Publication details

Editors: WHO
Number of pages: 12
Publication date: 2000
Languages: English, Spanish
WHO reference number: WHO/NMH/HPS/00.2

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Overview

Population ageing and increasing longevity are necessitating an examination of the skills and training needs of our health care professionals and the capacity of our health care services and systems. The meeting organisers believe that the adoption of the ‘life course’ as a conceptual framework will assist in developing efficient and equitable responses to this challenge.