Need for public health policies in the elderly population: indicators of aging in a Social Security Institute in Mexico.

Introduction: An integral diagnosis of population contemplates within its components the population demographic analysis that is indispensable in the formulation of public policies. Population policy has a clearly transversal nature, since all actions in the economic, social, political, cultural, geographical, and obviously, demographic fields, have direct or indirect repercussions on it.

Objectives: To determine the population dynamics and the global growth of the older adult population (OAP) of 60 years and more.

[Necesidad de políticas de salud pública en población adulta mayor: indicadores de envejecimiento en un Instituto de Seguridad Social en México].

Introduction: An integral diagnosis of population contemplates within its components the population demographic analysis that is indispensable in the formulation of public policies. Population policy has a clearly transversal nature, since all actions in the economic, social, political, cultural, geographical, and obviously, demographic fields, have direct or indirect repercussions on it.

Objectives: To determine the population dynamics and the global growth of the older adult population (OAP) of 60 years and more.