Gerontology public health management in Croatia

The gerontologic-public health service provided at primary health care level by the Centers of Gerontology of the Public Health Institutes (PHI) in particular Croatian counties, City of Zagreb and Republic of Croatia is based on the established gerontologic-public health parameters of health care needs and functional ability of the elderly in institutional and non-institutional health care. Appropriate preventive gerontologic program of primal)] prevention for the elderly has also been performed by Gerontology Centers in local community, providing immediate gerontologic non-institutional care for the elderly. A comprehensive approach in health care of the elderly, with family medicine playing the leading role, is ensured by due coordination at the level of primal), health care for the elderly as part of the gerontologic-public health service with a catchment population of 30,000 older people. The public health relevance of health management for the elderly at these three levels (superior intermediary and basic health management) is based on the primary health care for the elderly. The strategic goals is based on the monitoring, studying, evaluation and reporting, with coordination and supervision of the implementation of health care needs of the elderly through monitoring of health care needs.