ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF HEALTH EVENTS

拟议的研究将探索重要的 新的健康事件以及功能、行为和经济后果 使用独特的纵向数据库组合的老年美国人。 这项研究将采用健康和退休研究的三个浪潮 (HRS)调查，两波最老的资产和健康动态 旧的(领先)调查，以及四年来医疗保险的十二波 当前受益人调查(MCBS)。AHEAD和MCBS Will的分析 涉及链接的纵向Medicare索赔数据，以帮助验证 以及健康事件的特征。具体目标包括： 1.构造具有医学意义的变量和变量组 总结健康问题，特别是 重大的新健康事件。 2.验证自我报告的存在和新的发生 通过使用关联的纵向医疗保险索赔来解决特定的健康问题 数据。 3.对健康事件的后果进行探索性研究 对于职能地位、经济行为(特别是劳动力供应和 生活安排)，以及个人和他们的经济福祉 配偶。

The proposed research will explore the relationship between important new health events and functional, behavioral, and economic outcomes for older Americans using a unique combination of longitudinal databases. The research will employ three waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) survey, two waves of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD) survey, and twelve waves over four years of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS). Analysis of AHEAD and MCBS will involve linked longitudinal Medicare claims data to assist in validation and characterization of health events. The specific aims include: 1. To construct medically-meaningful variables and groups of variables to summarize health problems and, especially, the occurrence of significant new health events. 2. To validate self-reports of the existence and new occurrence of particular health problems, by using linked longitudinal Medicare claims data. 3. To conduct exploratory studies of the consequences of health events for functional status, economic behavior (particularly labor supply and living arrangements), and financial well-being of individuals and their spouses.