Abstract:
In order to explore the Characteristics of old population medicine,the data from desease surveillance points in Shandong province was analysed.It was shown that the ageing level of population in of urban area exceeded rural area.The mortality of old population in rural area was 20 percent higher and life expectancy was 1.2 years less than in urban area in 1981,but the differences between them have gradually reduced.Now heart diseases,cerebrovascular diseases and malignant tumors were the three leading death causes among old population in urban area while the respiratory and infectious diseases were the two leading death causes in rural areas,it's total mortality was two times higher than in urban area.