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

该项目将继续并扩大NIA对正在进行的工作的支持，以提高欧洲和其他地区老年人口数据的可比性。SHARE是在美国健康与退休研究（HRS）和英国老龄化纵向研究（ELSA）的基础上设计的，这种支持旨在加强这些数据集之间的一致性，并增强这些措施与其他美国数据集以及在美国和跨国收集的其他数据集的可比性，例如国家健康与营养检查调查（NHANES III）。老年人流行病学研究既定人群（EPESE）和阿姆斯特丹纵向老龄化研究（LASA）。迄今为止，SHARE已经在2004/05和2006/07年度收集了两波50岁以上欧洲公民的数据，当时采访了15个国家的约3.5万人。第三波目前正在实地进行，将于2009年夏季完成。第四波计划在2010/2011年进行。对不同国家的老年人进行抽样调查，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关系的宝贵信息。此外，它将增强我们对巨大差异的医疗保健系统、养老金和长期护理系统如何影响老年人口的社会经济地位、健康经历和死亡率的理解。这些活动将通过数据收集工具的统一、访谈协议的统一、验证工具的开发以及为研究界增加跨国可比数据集的可用性来推进。为此目的，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).