LINKING HEALTH EXPECTANCY TO POLICY AND SCIENCE

描述（改编自申请书）：这是一份申请资金，用于支持国际健康预期寿命网络（KEVES）的科学会议。会议将于2000年3月在南加州大学举行，三天之后，美国人口协会（PAA）年会将在洛杉矶举行。这将是一群国际科学家的第12次会议，也是第三次在美国举行的会议，他们致力于开发方法和数据，以产生健康的综合衡量标准。目标是更好地了解当前和未来死亡率和发病率趋势对生命周期和人口构成的影响。会议的主题是将健康预期与政策和科学联系起来。这次会议对美国来说尤其重要，因为这将是美国政府机构的代表第一次出席会议，这些代表正在制定2010年健康预期总结措施的目标。这将是第一次纳入伤残调整生命周期（一种衡量与疾病有关的不良健康负担的替代方法）开发人员的重要投入的会议；这将是第一次纳入生物人口学会议的会议，这对考虑老年人口死亡率和发病率趋势的未来至关重要。这是该小组目前安排的最后一次会议，将用于澄清当前方法和数据在满足研究和政策需要方面的潜力。这项申请的首席研究员（PI）是南加州大学安德鲁斯老年学中心的艾琳·克里明斯博士，他是EVES中央组织委员会的成员。本次会议的组织委员会成员除Crimmins博士外，还包括芝加哥大学的Olshansky博士；杜克大学George Meyers博士；宾夕法尼亚州立大学（PSU）的马克·海沃德博士；澳大利亚堪培拉澳大利亚健康与福利研究所的科林·马瑟斯博士；法国INSERM的Jean Marie Robine博士；还有来自英国的卡罗尔·贾格尔博士。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the application): This is an application for funds to support a scientific meeting of the International Network on Healthy Life Expectancy (KEVES). The meeting will take place in March 2000 at the USC, three days before the annual meetings of the Population Association of America (PAA) in Los Angeles. This will be the twelfth meeting, the third in the United States, of a group of international scientists devoted to the development of methods and data for producing summary measures of health. The goal is to better understand the life cycle and population composition implications of current and prospective trends in mortality and morbidity. The meeting theme is Linking Health Expectancy to Policy and Science. This meeting will be especially important for the United States because it will be the first meeting attended by representatives of U.S. Government agencies who are setting goals for Summary Measures of Health Expectancy 2010. It will be the first meeting to include significant input from the developers of DALYS, an alternative approach to measuring the burden of ill health associated with disease; and it will be the first meeting to incorporate sessions on biodemography, which are crucial to considering the future of mortality and morbidity trends among the older population. It is currently the last scheduled meeting of this group and will be used to clarify the potential of current methods and data for meeting research and policy needs. The principal investigator (PI) for this application is Dr. Eileen Crimmins from the Andrus Gerontology Center at the USC, a member of the central organizing committee of EVES. The organizing committee for this meeting includes, in addition to Dr. Crimmins, Dr. Olshansky from the University of Chicago (UC); Dr. George Meyers from Duke University (DU); Dr. Mark Hayward from the Pennsylvania State University (PSU); Dr. Colin Mathers from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare in Canberra, Australia; Dr. Jean Marie Robine from INSERM in France; and Dr. Carol Jagger from England.