Integrating the TILDA Health Assessments into the SHARE Policy Background

将 TILDA 健康评估纳入 SHARE 政策背景

• 批准号: 8326581
• 负责人: AXEL H BOERSCH-SUPAN
• 金额: $ 11.52万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8326581
• 关键词: Aging; Architecture; Blood Pressure; Cardiovascular system; Childhood; China; Cognition; Communities; Computers; Contrast Sensitivity; Country; Data; Data Set; Deposition; Economic Policy; Economics; Employment; England; Ensure; Environment; Equilibrium; Europe; Family; Future; Gait; Geriatrics; Health; Home environment; India; Individual; Institution; International; Interview; Ireland; Japan; Keratectomy, Subepithelial, Laser-Assisted; Korea; Measurement; Measures; Mental Health; Methods; Mexico; Outcome; Pensions; Personal Satisfaction; Physiologic pulse; Pigments; Policies; Procedures; Process; Recording of previous events; Research Design; Retirement; Running; Sampling; Social Policies; Survey Methodology; Surveys; Technology; Testing; Variant; Visual; age related; aging population; base; central retinal artery; heart rate variability; innovation; insight; instrument; life history; macula; member; novel; physical conditioning; population survey; social; socioeconomics; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-run substantive aim of this project is to combine sophisticated objective health measurements with economic and social data on an international scale in order to better understand how health outcomes in older ages are related to the economic and social policy environment. Specifically, the project will explore whether and how methodological innovations in measuring health in large-scale population surveys, which have been made by the Irish TILDA study, can be usefully employed by the growing set of internationally comparable aging surveys, including the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The Irish TILDA study has developed a set of innovative health assessments using hi-tech instruments and analytic methods. In parallel, the Irish branch of SHARE has collected one wave of data in 2007 that is strictly comparable to the other 19 SHARE countries and is currently in the process of collecting life histories in that same sample covering the health, employment, earnings and family history from childhood to today. The core technical outcome of the proposed project will be a state-of-the-art survey instrument with the potential of being widely applicable to other aging surveys. This will be achieved by five integrated sets of activities: 1. Sending all Irish SHARE sample members to the TILDA health assessment centers or applying the in-home health assessment procedures developed by TILDA; 2. Exploring which selected set of portable TILDA health assessments is most suitable for application in other SHARE countries; 3. Merging the Irish SHARE sample data obtained from the TILDA health assessments, the life- histories, and the first wave into an unprecedentedly rich dataset; 4. Ensuring much closer alignment in future waves of SHARE-Ireland and TILDA by harmonizing the two survey instruments in the socio-economic fields; 5. Exploring the usefulness of such merged data in an analysis of health changes stratified by type and extent of financial losses in the wake of the 2008/09 financial crisis. The project team brings together a number of recognized experts in the fields of economics, survey methods and geriatric medicine in three institutions. The proposed research design will provide important insights, both methodological and substantive, for all countries, including the US and UK, concerned with understanding the implications of population aging.

说明（由申请人提供）：该项目的长期实质性目标是将复杂的客观健康测量与国际范围内的经济和社会数据结合起来，以便更好地了解老年人的健康结果与经济和社会政策环境之间的关系。具体而言，该项目将探讨爱尔兰TILDA研究在大规模人口调查中衡量健康的方法创新是否以及如何有效地应用于越来越多的国际可比老龄化调查，包括美国健康与退休研究（HRS）。爱尔兰TILDA研究开发了一套使用高科技仪器和分析方法的创新健康评估。与此同时，SHARE的爱尔兰分部在2007年收集了一波与其他19个SHARE国家严格可比的数据，目前正在收集同一样本的生活史，涵盖从童年到今天的健康、就业、收入和家族史。拟议项目的核心技术成果将是一种最先进的测量仪器，具有广泛适用于其他老龄化测量的潜力。这将通过五套综合活动来实现：将所有爱尔兰共享样本成员送到TILDA健康评估中心或应用TILDA制定的家庭健康评估程序；2. 探索哪一套选定的便携式TILDA健康评估最适合在其他共享经济国家应用；3. 将从TILDA健康评估、生活史和第一波获得的爱尔兰共享样本数据合并为前所未有的丰富数据集；4. 通过协调社会经济领域的两项调查工具，确保在今后的SHARE-Ireland和TILDA浪潮中更加紧密地保持一致；5. 在分析2008/09年金融危机后按财务损失的类型和程度分层的卫生变化时，探讨这种合并数据的有用性。项目组汇集了三家机构在经济学、调查方法和老年医学领域的知名专家。拟议的研究设计将为包括美国和英国在内的所有国家提供重要的方法和实质性见解，以了解人口老龄化的影响。