Studies of health, retirement and living arrangements of the aging population in

描述（申请人提供）：我们拟利用母基金资助的“中国健康与退休纵向研究（CHARLS）：试点”收集的数据，在NIH资助的科学家和LMIC（中国）研究人员之间就中国的健康和老龄化问题开展联合合作研究。该项目的培训和研究将大大提高参与该项目的中国研究人员的能力，以便在未来对健康和老龄问题进行高质量的科学研究。此外，这项培训将对高收入国家（HIC）的科学家产生积极的溢出效应，因为我们的中国学员未来所做的一些研究将与来自美国等高收入国家的学者联合进行。参与这种跨国合作研究可以带来很高的回报，从而在我们的健康和老龄化知识方面取得科学进步。我们刚刚收集完由家长资助的数据。该数据涵盖了浙江和甘肃两个省的1，575个随机选择的家庭，以及2，951名45岁及以上的个人及其配偶。虽然是试点，但样本量足够大，可以进行认真的科学分析。CHARLS是中国第一个公开的老年人数据集，其内容如此广泛，并且是在HRS之后明确设计的。我们将重点研究四个课题。1.社会经济地位（SES）和健康的不同层面之间的梯度; 2。与人口老龄化相关的某些疾病的诊断不足，特别是，调查护士采取的生物测量和报告的医生诊断之间的差异，以及这些差异背后的SES因素; 3.老年人的退休行为及其与健康的关系; 4.老年人的生活安排及其与健康的关系。本研究将主要在中国北京大学进行，作为NIH批准号1 R21 AG 031372 -01（2007年9月30日至2009年8月31日）的扩展。我们有两个PI团队来处理这个提案。接触PI（Y.赵，中国北京大学）是家长补助金的PI。另一个PI，J. Strauss，南加州大学，是父母补助金的共同PI。A.公园，共同PI的母赠款，将作为共同PI的这个项目。公共卫生相关性：公共卫生相关性声明该项目“中国老龄人口的健康、退休和生活安排研究：中国健康与退休纵向研究（CHARLS）试点的初步证据"，将通过培训中国年轻学者，利用中国第一个主要的、目的广泛的、公开可用的老龄化数据集CHARLS，大大提高在中国进行健康与老龄化研究的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to use data collected from "China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS): Pilot" funded by the parent grant to conduct joint collaborative research between NIH-funded scientists and LMIC (China) researchers on health and aging issues in China. The training and research conducted in this project will greatly increase the abilities of the Chinese researchers engaged in this project to conduct future high-quality scientific research on health and aging issues. This training will, in addition, have positive spillover to high income country (HIC) scientists because some of the future research done by our Chinese trainees will be joint with scholars from high income countries, like the United States. Engaging in such cross-country collaborative research can have high payoffs in leading to scientific advances in our knowledge of health and aging. We have just finished collecting the data funded by the parent grant. The data covers 1,575 randomly selected households in two provinces, Zhejiang and Gansu, and 2,951 individuals 45 and older and their spouses. Although a pilot, the sample size is large enough to enable serious scientific analysis. CHARLS is the first publicly available data set on the elderly in China that is so broad in its content and designed explicitly after the HRS. We will focus on four research topics. 1. The gradients between socio-economic status (SES) and different dimensions of health; 2. Underdiagnoses of certain diseases associated with population aging, specifically, the differences between biological measurements taken by the survey nurse and reported doctor diagnoses, and what SES factors underlie these differences; 3. The retirement behavior of the elderly and its relationship to health; 4. The living arrangements of the elderly and their relationships to health. This research will be done primarily in China at Peking University as an extension of NIH Grant No. 1R21AG031372-01, 09-30-2007 to 8-31-2009. We have a two PI team for this proposal. The contact PI (Y. Zhao, Peking University of China) is PI of the parent grant. The other PI, J. Strauss, University of Southern California, is co-PI of the parent grant. A. Park, co-PI of the parent grant, will serve as co-PI of this project. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Public Health Relevance Statement The project, "Studies of health, retirement and living arrangements of the aging population in China: Initial evidence from the pilot of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)", will greatly enhance the capacity to do research in health and aging in China by training young Chinese scholars, using the first major broad-purposed, public available data set on aging in China, CHARLS.