Comparative Approach to SES Gradient: Aging & Selection

SES 梯度的比较方法：老化

• 批准号: 6736525
• 负责人: BETH J SOLDO
• 金额: $ 32.86万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6736525
• 关键词: Mexico; United States; aging; behavioral /social science research tag; biomarker; clinical research; education; health; human data; human morbidity; human mortality; interview; longitudinal human study; questionnaires; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The general goal of this project is to investigate the mechanisms linking education to health transitions, morbidity processes and mortality outcomes at advanced ages. In particular, we investigate the mechanisms underlying the observed gradual decline in the effect of education at older ages comparing this effect in the very different institutional and socioeconomic contexts of the U.S. and Mexico. We emphasize the role of health-related selection processes, the effects of early life events, parental background, and intergenerational transmissions of human capital on health status in later life, and especially at old age. The specific aims of the project are to: develop comparative indicators of health status for older people based in part on biomarkers; develop a cross-national typology of education that goes beyond simple counts of years of schooling; map how the magnitude of the relationship between education and health outcomes changes with age; consider the role of differential selection on the convergence &morbidity and mortality trajectories; and, assess how differences in education imprint on the aging process, its disease burden and disability in the U.S. and Mexico.

描述(由申请者提供)：本项目的总体目标是调查教育与健康过渡、发病过程和高龄死亡结果之间的联系机制。特别是，我们调查了老年教育效果逐渐下降的机制，比较了美国和墨西哥截然不同的制度和社会经济背景下的这种影响。我们强调与健康相关的选择过程的作用，早期生活事件、父母背景和人力资本的代际传递对晚年，特别是老年健康状况的影响。该项目的具体目标是：开发部分基于生物标志物的老年人健康状况比较指标；开发超越简单受教育年限的跨国家教育类型；绘制教育和健康结果之间的关系如何随年龄变化的图表；考虑差异选择在趋同、发病率和死亡率轨迹上的作用；以及评估教育差异如何影响美国和墨西哥的老龄化过程及其疾病负担和残疾。