Medico-demographic features of ageing of Sakhalin Oblast population

Abstract

The authors have studied medical and demographic processes that are indicative of the regularities of ageing in Sakhalin Oblast in the framework of sustainable development. The Oblast demographic situation is characterised by increasing life duration, shorter life duration of men living in rural areas, increasing gender differences among the rural dwellers up to 10years and among the urban dwellers up to 13 years. The mortality rate for both men and women of elderly age tends to increase but the men’s mortality rate is 2.1 times higher than that of women. The principal death causes are blood circulation diseases, neoplasms, accidents, intoxication, and injuries. The elderly-age disability is two times higher in people living in the rural areas. The main causes of disability are blood circulation diseases, neoplasms, and musculoskeletal system diseases. In view of growing rates of mortality, disability, gender differences in the life duration, it is possible to draw a conclusion that there is a phenomenon of premature ageing of the Sakhalin Oblast population.