随着人民生活水平的提高、科技进步、医疗卫生条件得到改善、出生率下降、平均寿命的提高,我国老年人口正逐渐增加,并已于1999年10月提前进入人口老龄化国家的行列。随着老年人口的增多,老年人的医疗卫生问题也日益突出。笔者对全国第3次死因调查广东省佛山市顺德区资料中60岁以上人群进行分析,旨在了解该人群死亡情况,为疾病监测、健康促进、积 With the improvement of people’s living standard, scientific and technological progress, improvement of medical and health conditions, declining birth rate and improvement of life expectancy, the elderly population in our country is gradually increasing and has entered the ranks of the aging population in advance of October 1999. As the elderly population increases, the health problems of the elderly are also increasingly prominent. The author of the third national investigation of the cause of death in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, Shunde District, more than 60 years of age population analysis to understand the death of the crowd, for disease surveillance, health promotion, plot