As the progress of population aging in China, the proportion of elderly population is increasing. Both chronic diseases and infectious diseases can threaten the health of the elderly. There are many kinds of infectious diseases, including vaccine preventable infectious diseases affecting the health of adults, such as influenza, pneumococcal diseases and herpes zoster. In addition, the newly emerged COVID-19 has caused a pandemic in the world, resulting the highest proportion of deaths occurred in the elderly and posing a serious threat to the health of the elderly. This paper mainly summarizes the prevention and control of vaccine preventable diseases and COVID-19 to which the elderly are susceptible, analyzes the infectious disease problems affecting the health of elderly population, and recommends countermeasures for the prevention and control of these diseases in elderly population.
随着我国逐步步入老龄社会，老年人群占比越来越大，其健康受到慢性病和传染病的双重威胁。传染病种类繁多，针对成年人的重要疫苗可预防传染病有流感、肺炎球菌性疾病和带状疱疹等，另外新发传染病新型冠状病毒肺炎造成了全世界的大流行，死亡人群中老年人占比最高，对老年人的健康造成重大威胁。本研究主要针对老年人群的疫苗可预防疾病和新型冠状病毒肺炎进行概述，总结老年人群所面临的部分传染病问题，并提出防控建议。.