Attaching importance to elder population facilitating “health for all” action

This article summarizes the health challenges of the construction of health China from the aspects including the implementation of relevant background of the “health for all” strategy, the core idea, the life expectancy of the elderly, the common diseases and burden of disease in the elderly. We put forward the implement “health for all” strategy to focus on the elderly and propose to elderly health management into China′s strategic general requirements on health. In order to cope with an ageing population and achieve healthy Chinese action key health indicators, we should strengthen the health promotion action in the elderly and provide quality management service to the elderly. We also should set up security system for the elderly and build the optimized medical combination mode.