UNDERSTANDING CHANGES IN THE HEALTH OF OLDER AMERICANS

了解美国老年人的健康变化

• 批准号: 6167940
• 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 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6167940
• 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)：提议的ISA的目标是 启动一项长期研究计划，以研究健康状况的趋势 年长的美国人。健康问题始于疾病，异常的生物 可能导致功能损伤或死亡的过程。这个ISA将 强调将新方法应用于一套独特的详细 纵向数据库，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 美国老年人福祉的趋势。来支持这一长期的 研究议程，ISA包括大量的个性化培训 在人口统计学和相关研究方面的先进方法课程 医学人口学和流行病学。这些方法将与 研究员S目前在计量经济学和生物医学科学方面拥有专业知识 在拟议的研究方案的开发中。的具体目标 本ISA的目的是：(1)描述死亡率、发病率和 美国老年人中的疾病流行和进展，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，并可能 改进对疾病负担、死亡率和医疗成本的预测；(2) 分析疾病状况趋势的决定因素，特别强调 医疗卫生技术变革的贡献与政策因素 这可能会影响技术变革；(3)发展对 疾病状况和死亡率的变化对人类福祉的影响 老年美国人，以及政府计划的费用；以及(4)扩大 NBER和斯坦福大学(SU)现有的研究项目 卫生保健和老龄化经济学，以更好地纳入人口统计和老龄化 正在进行的研究中的流行病学观点。