Further Extension of the SHARE-Israel Panel Study

 描述(由申请人提供)：SHARE-以色列项目是NIA/NIH支持的针对50岁及以上成年人的小组调查，自2005年以来收集了三波数据(N=2,591)。它是《欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查》的以色列组成部分，是一个多学科、跨国家的纵向数据库，与《健康和退休研究》及其姊妹调查相一致。到目前为止，SHARE-以色列调查在HRS/SHARE领域涵盖的一系列主题中增加了关于延迟退休、累积终身创伤和暴露于坠落导弹的影响的独特衡量标准。当前项目的总体目标是扩大SHARE-以色列调查的分析潜力。具体而言，该项目将：1)再增加两波数据收集(2015-16年和 2017-18年)，2)进行队列更新以保持样本的横截面表示，3)实施干血点(DB)的收集，4)应用新设计的以自我为中心的命名生成社交网络清单，5)加强对与以色列的社会生活密切相关并引起美国和国际研究人员兴趣的措施的进一步检查，以及6)测试日子重建法(DRM)的使用，作为NIA战略的一部分，将在大份额项目中进行，以协调全球幸福感的测量，并将这一方法应用于2017年第五次浪潮中的全部样本--以色列。拟议的延期具有重大意义，因为小组研究是确定老年人健康状况的不同轨迹的主要机制，也是衡量个人和/或社会干预措施对老龄人口健康影响的主要工具。当前项目的创新之一是从DBS样本中收集四种生物标志物：HbA1c、总胆固醇、C反应蛋白和维生素D(HRS DBS收集中尚未产生维生素D)。与SHARE丰富的社会经济数据库相结合，生物标记物数据将揭示老年人常见的慢性病与各种社会经济条件下的风险因素之间的关系。此外，新的社交网络清单的应用将使人们能够更好地了解网络动态，并将能够独特地检查它们与转移行为(时间和金钱)的联系。在SHARE-以色列调查中实施网络清单还将能够审查被点名的知己与广泛的社会人口、健康和其他变量之间的联系。由于扩大了SHARE-以色列小组，另一个调查领域将得到加强，涉及困难生活事件的伴随、对一个人健康的严峻威胁和死亡风险，以及它们与随着时间的推移健康结果的关系，控制数据库中可用的许多社会人口因素。Share-以色列的数据还为研究移民，特别是晚年移民对健康和与健康相关的行为和结果的影响提供了分析机会。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The SHARE-Israel Project is an NIA/NIH supported panel survey of adults aged 50 and older that has collected three waves of data since 2005 (N=2,591). It is the Israeli component of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, a multidisciplinary, cross-national longitudinal data base that is harmonized with the Health and Retirement Study and its sister surveys. Thus far, the SHARE-Israel survey has added distinctive measures of the effects of delayed retirement, cumulative lifelong trauma and exposure to falling missiles, to the array of topics that are covered in the HRS/SHARE domain. The overall aim of the current project is to extend the analytic potential of the SHARE-Israel survey. Specifically, the project will: 1) add two further waves of data collection (in 2015-16 and 2017-18), 2) carry out cohort refreshment to maintain cross-sectional representation of the sample, 3) implement the collection of dried blood spots (DBS), 4) apply a newly designed ego-centered name-generating social network inventory, 5) enhance further examination of measures that are germane to social life in Israel and are of interest to American and international researchers and 6) test the use of Day Reconstruction Method (DRM), as will be done in the larger SHARE Project as part of the NIA strategy to harmonize the measurement of well-being across the globe, and to apply this approach to the full sample of SHARE-Israel in its fifth Wave, in 2017. The proposed extension is significant insofar as panel studies constitute the principal mechanism by which to identify varying trajectories toward good health in older age and they are the main apparatus through which to measure the impact of interventions, personal and/or societal, on the health of aging populations. Among the innovations in the current project is the collection of four biomarkers from the DBS samples: HbA1c, total cholesterol, C-reactive protein and Vitamin D. (Vitamin D is not yet produced in the HRS DBS collection). Paired with the rich socio-economic database of SHARE, the biomarker data will shed new light on the relations between chronic conditions common in old age and risk factors under various socio-economic conditions. In addition, the application of the new social network inventory will allow better understanding of network dynamics and will allow unique examination of their linkage with transfer behaviors (time and money). Implementation of the network inventory in the SHARE-Israel survey will also allow examination of the associations between named confidants and a wide range of sociodemographic, health and other variables. Yet another area of inquiry that will be enhanced as a result of extending the SHARE-Israel panel concerns the concomitants of difficult life events, harsh threats to one's health and risk of death, and their relation to healt outcomes over time, controlling for the many sociodemographic factors that are available in the data base. The SHARE-Israel data also provide analytic opportunities for examining the effect of immigration, and particularly late-life immigration, on health and health-related behaviors and outcomes.