Burden of non-communicable diseases due to population ageing in China: challenges to healthcare delivery and long term care services

Yuebin Lv; Lin Fan; Jinhui Zhou; Enmin Ding; Ji Shen; Song Tang; Yao He; Xiaoming Shi

doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-076529

Burden of non-communicable diseases due to population ageing in China: challenges to healthcare delivery and long term care services

BMJ. 2024 Oct 18:387:e076529. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-076529.

Authors

Yuebin Lv^{1

2}, Lin Fan^{1

2}, Jinhui Zhou^{1

2}, Enmin Ding^{1

2}, Ji Shen³, Song Tang^{1

2}, Yao He⁴, Xiaoming Shi^{5

2}

Affiliations

¹ China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
² National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
³ Beijing Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, National Center of Gerontology, Beijing, China.
⁴ Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Key Laboratory of Aging and Geriatrics, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
⁵ China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China shixm@chinacdc.cn.

Abstract

China has made substantial progress in healthcare delivery to reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases due to population ageing, although challenges and opportunities in long term care services have been under-recognised, argue Xiaoming Shi and colleagues