UNDERSTANDING CHANGES IN THE HEALTH OF OLDER AMERICANS

了解美国老年人的健康变化

• 批准号: 2683097
• 负责人: MARK B MCCLELLAN
• 金额: $ 8.68万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2683097
• 关键词: aging; behavioral /social science research tag; epidemiology; geriatrics; health care cost /financing; health care service utilization; health economics; health services research tag; human data; human morbidity; human old age (65+)

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the application): The goal of the proposed ISA is to initiate a long-term research program to study trends in the health of older Americans. Health problems begin as diseases, abnormal biologic processes that may result in functional impairments or death. This ISA will emphasize the application of new methods to a unique set of detailed longitudinal databases, to provide a broad range of new insights into trends in disease burden, the determinants of these trends, and the consequences of the trends for the well-being of older Americans. To support this long-term research agenda, the ISA includes a substantial individualized training program in advanced methods in demography and relevant related research in medical demography and epidemiology. These methods will be integrated with the investigator s existing expertise in econometrics and biomedical science in the development of the proposed research program. The specific aims of this ISA are to: (1) describe trends in mortality, disease incidence, and disease prevalence and progression among older Americans, with particular emphasis on interactions among diseases and population health. Analyses should provide new insights into recent trends in disease studies and may improve forecasts of disease burden, mortality, and health care costs; (2) analyze determinants of trends in disease status, with particular emphasis on the contribution of technological change in health care and policy factors that may influence technological change; (3) develop new insights into the consequences of change in disease status and mortality for the well-being of older Americans, and for the costs of government programs; and (4) expand existing research programs at the NBER and Stanford University (SU) in the economics of health care and aging, to better incorporate demographic and epidemiologic perspectives in ongoing research.

描述（改编自应用程序）：拟议伊萨的目标是 启动一项长期研究计划，研究健康的趋势， 美国老人 健康问题开始为疾病，异常的生物 可能导致功能障碍或死亡的过程。 这个伊萨将 强调新方法的应用，以一套独特的详细的 纵向数据库，以提供对趋势的广泛新见解 在疾病负担方面，这些趋势的决定因素，以及 美国老年人福利的趋势。 为了支持这一长期的 研究议程，伊萨包括大量的个性化培训 人口统计学高级方法及相关研究 医学人口学和流行病学。 这些方法将与 研究者在计量经济学和生物医学科学方面的现有专业知识 在拟定的研究计划中。 的具体目标 该伊萨旨在：（1）描述死亡率、疾病发病率和 美国老年人的疾病患病率和进展，特别是 强调疾病与人口健康之间的相互作用。 分析 应该为疾病研究的最新趋势提供新的见解， 改善对疾病负担、死亡率和卫生保健费用的预测;（2） 分析疾病状态趋势的决定因素，特别强调 技术变革对保健和政策因素的贡献 可能影响技术变革;（3）发展新的见解 疾病状况和死亡率变化对儿童福祉的影响 老年美国人，并为政府计划的成本;（4）扩大 美国国家经济研究局（NBER）和斯坦福大学（SU）的现有研究项目， 卫生保健和老龄化的经济学，以更好地结合人口和 流行病学的观点在正在进行的研究。