TAS::75 0843::TAS CONTRACT TO SUPPOR HARMONIZATION ACTIVITIES BEING UNDERTAKEN B

该项目将继续并扩大国家臭氧机构对正在进行的工作的支持，以提高欧洲和其他地方老年人口数据的可比性。Share是在美国健康和退休研究(HRS)和英国老龄化纵向研究(ELSA)之后设计的，这种支持旨在增强这些数据集中的一致性，并增强这些措施与其他美国数据集中的数据以及正在美国和跨国家收集的其他数据集的可比性，例如国家健康和营养检查调查(NHANES III)、老年流行病学研究的既定人口(EPESE)和阿姆斯特丹的纵向老龄化研究(LASA)。到目前为止，Share已经收集了2004/05年度和2006/07年度两波关于50岁以上欧洲公民的数据，当时访问了15个国家的约35,000人。第三波目前正在现场进行，将于2009年夏天完成。第四波计划在2010/2011年间进行。这一对不同国家老年人的抽样调查提供了关于发病率及其与老年人社会经济地位和社会网络的关系的宝贵信息。此外，它将增进我们对截然不同的医疗保健系统、养老金和长期护理系统如何影响老龄人口的社会经济地位、健康体验和死亡率的理解。这些活动将通过调整数据收集工具、统一面谈协议、开发验证工具以及为研究界提供更多跨国可比数据集来推动。为此，NIA希望与曼海姆大学签订合同，支持欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查(SHARE)正在开展的协调活动。

This project would continue and extend NIA's support of ongoing work to improve the comparability of data on older populations in Europe and elsewhere. SHARE is designed after the US Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), and this support is intended to enhance harmonization within these datasets and enhance the comparability of these measures to those in other US datasets, as well as other datasets being collected both in the US and cross-nationally, such as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), the Established Population for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), and Longitudinal Aging Study of Amsterdam (LASA). SHARE has so far collected two waves of data on European citizens over the age of 50 in 2004/05 and 2006/07, when about 35,000 individuals in 15 countries were interviewed. A third wave is currently in the field and will be finished in summer 2009. A fourth wave is scheduled for 2010/2011. This sampling of older adults in a diverse array of countries is providing valuable information on morbidity and its relationship to socio-economic status and the social network of the elderly. Further, it will enhance our understanding how the vastly differing health care systems, pension and long-term care systems affect socio-economic status, health experiences and mortality of the aging populations. These activities will be advanced though alignment of instruments for data collection, uniformity in interviewing protocols, development of validation tools, and increasing the availability of cross-nationally comparable datasets for the research community. To this end, NIA wishes to contract with Mannheim University to support harmonization activities being undertaken by the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).