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Objective:To build a social aging scale for healthy people,and get the accuracy and feasibility of the scale to judge the aging of healthy people on the basis of the empirical research.Methods:Stratified random sampling was conducted according to the nine different age groups,and the age-related social function information was collected for healthy people by using the scale,which was made in our own plant;the distribution of the score,the correlations between the score and age or telomere length were analyzed by statistical software.Results:A total of 2 297 subjects were collected for the analysis.The ratio of male to female was 0.8:1.Social function of aging score was in the range of 3.00-12.90;aging score of personal ability was in the range of 1.00-4.45;aging score of social participation was in the range of 1.00-4.52;and aging score of organizational communication was in the range of 1.00-5.00.The correlation coefficient of aging scores with age was 0.696 (P＜0.001).The result of telomere length showed that the relative telomere length was 1.056±0.261.The telomere length in different groups were significantly different (F=35.803,P＜0.001).The telomere length was negatively correlated with aging (r=-0.964,P＜0.001) and social function of aging (r=-0.857,P＜0.001),respectively.Conclusion:The scores of age-related social function,personal ability,social participation,and organizational communication are increased with age.The telomere length is negatively correlated to aging score.The scale is applicable to measure social function of aging,which can provide reference for evaluation of the comprehensive of aging.
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Cerca de 600 millones de latinoamericanos viven en los 22 países y territorios que comprenden desde México y el Caribe hasta la Argentina y Chile en el Sur, en donde los desarrollos económicos y sociales son muy variados, pero en donde, además, la caries dental y las periodontitis afectan a elevados porcentajes de la población. Este artículo describe una estrategia poblacional para combinar la adopción de estilos de vida saludable para el control de las enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles y de las enfermedades orales, usando como pilares en la estrategia la promoción, la prevención y la educación a nivel individual y poblacional de los individuos sanos. Esta estrategia se contrapone con los actuales modelos curativos que demandan alta inversión y recursos físicos-humanos para el tratamiento de la enfermedad crónica y de las enfermedades orales.
Latin America is populated by approximately 600 million inhibitants living in 20 countries, from Mexico and the Caribean in the north to Argentina and Chile in the south, and although they have a varied social and economic development, oral diseases are common and affect a significant percentage of the population. This article describes a public health strategy to control both chronic, non-communicable disease and periodontal and oral disease, based on health promotion and disease prevention outside of dental clinics.