of Self-reported Healthy Older Adults in the United States, 2000 to 2014 Previous research has examined trends in the health of older adults who are frail or in otherwise poor health.1 Collectively, this body of evidence points to encouraging improvements. It is well recognized, though, that health is a spectrum and examining only those in poor health neglects to consider how good health (the goal of public health and policy initiatives) is distributed in the general population. Use of disability trends alone to evaluate population health is analogous to making conclusions about the US economy based solely on the poverty rate. Because healthy older adults are a sizeable and growing segment of the US population,2 it is important to better appraise the full spectrum of health among older adults. Examining the distribution of good health among older adults has implications for planning overall health care needs for older adults and understanding whether improvements are distributed across all socioeconomic groups.

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2000 年至 2014 年美国自我报告的健康老年人数量的趋势和差异

2000 年至 2014 年美国自我报告的健康老年人的数量 先前的研究调查了虚弱或健康状况不佳的老年人的健康趋势。1 总的来说，这些证据表明改善是令人鼓舞的。然而，众所周知，健康是一个范围，仅检查健康状况不佳的人而忽略了健康状况（公共卫生和政策举措的目标）在一般人群中的分布情况。仅使用残疾趋势来评估人口健康类似于仅根据贫困率得出有关美国经济的结论。由于健康的老年人在美国人口中占相当大且不断增长的一部分，2 因此更好地评估老年人的全方位健康状况非常重要。