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

描述(申请人提供)：我们拟利用家长资助的《中国健康与退休纵向研究：试点》中收集的数据，在中国开展国立卫生研究院资助的科学家与中国研究所研究人员关于健康与老龄化问题的联合合作研究。该项目开展的培训和研究将极大地提高中国参与该项目的研究人员未来在健康和老龄化问题上进行高质量科学研究的能力。此外，这种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高收入国家(如美国)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，有助于我们在健康和老龄化方面的知识取得科学进步。我们刚刚完成了由父母资助的数据的收集。数据涵盖了浙江和甘肃两个省随机选择的1575户家庭，以及2951名45岁及以上的个人和他们的配偶。虽然是试点，但样本量足够大，可以进行认真的科学分析。Charls是第一个公开的关于中国老人的数据集，内容如此广泛，并明确地设计在HRS之后。我们将重点研究四个主题。1.社会经济地位(SES)与健康的不同层面之间的差异；2.对与人口老龄化有关的某些疾病的低估，特别是调查护士所做的生物测量与医生报告的诊断之间的差异，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。这项研究将主要在北京大学的中国进行，作为美国国立卫生研究院1R21AG031372-01，09-30-2007至8-31-2009的延伸。我们有一个两名PI团队负责这项提案。联系人派(赵云，北京大学中国)为家长助学金的派。另一位少年派是南加州大学的J·施特劳斯，是父母拨款的联合少年派。A.Park，母公司赠款的共同PI，将担任该项目的共同PI。公共健康相关性：公共健康相关性声明该项目名为《中国老龄人口健康、退休和生活安排研究：来自中国健康与退休纵向研究试点的初步证据》，将通过培训中国年轻学者，利用中国老龄问题研究中心首个用途广泛、公开可用的重大老龄化数据集，极大地提高中国开展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.