The Mexican Health and Aging Study - II

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究，墨西哥健康和老龄化研究- ii (MHAS-II)，旨在设计和实施墨西哥的第三和第四波调查数据收集。这两波研究将在2012年和2014年投入使用，比NIA/NIH在2001年和2003年资助的前两波研究晚了11年。还寻求资金来存档、记录和传播第三轮和第四轮以及由此产生的包含所有四次浪潮的综合数据库，供公众使用。先前的研究（MHAS-I）旨在建立墨西哥老龄化的纵向前瞻性研究，从50岁及以上的全国样本开始，使用与美国健康与退休研究高度相似的研究方案和调查工具。此外，研究设计预计需要研究墨西哥-美国大规模移民流动对健康和老龄化的长期影响。边境。因此，样本设计包括墨西哥6个州的超额样本，这些州历史上向美国的移民水平很高。MHAS-I具有这些和其他独特的功能，MHAS-II将在第三和第四波中复制和改进。新的重点领域将是传染病-慢性混合流行病学制度下的老龄化研究；自我报告质量评估；美墨文化的延续。移民及其对老龄化的影响；以及最近墨西哥卫生部门改革的影响。此应用程序有以下目标：1)执行第三和第四波，保留MHAS的原始内容并添加新内容，跟踪第1波和第2波的幸存者并刷新样本，以再次产生（如第3波）50岁及以上墨西哥人口的代表性横截面。2)加强数据分发、传播和外联活动，扩大对墨西哥健康和老龄化研究四波数据集和产品的了解和使用。将利用过去十年出现的用户友好的网络平台，使公众更容易获得数据和项目文件。先前的mhas - 1提供了跨越两年的两波数据，而MHAS-II数据的分析意义将更高，形成了跨越13年的四波的独特纵向研究。新的数据将有助于加强对老龄化和相关人口变化的研究：在一个老龄化迅速、对老年人的机构支持有限的发展中国家，对身心健康和残疾、健康行为和保健使用、家庭支助、老龄化和生命历程、财富、收入、劳动和退休、移徙和老年以及死亡率的研究。这些数据将使人们能够对健康和老龄化问题进行跨时期和跨队列分析，并将与发达国家和发展中国家，特别是美国的其他类似研究具有高度可比性，从而从跨国角度加强对老龄化和健康问题的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed study, the Mexican Health and Aging Study-II (MHAS-II), aims to design and field the 3rd and 4th waves of survey data collection in Mexico. The two waves will be fielded in 2012 and 2014, eleven years after the two previous waves funded by NIA/NIH were fielded in 2001 and 2003. Funds are sought also to archive, document, and disseminate for public use the 3rd and 4th rounds as well as the resulting integrated data base containing all four waves. The previous study (MHAS-I) aimed to create a longitudinal prospective study of Mexican aging, starting with a national sample of persons aged 50 and older, using study protocols and survey instruments that were highly comparable to the U.S. Health and Retirement Study. In addition, the study design anticipated the need to examine long term implications for health and aging of the massive migration flows across the Mexico-U.S. border. Thus, the sample design included an over-sample in 6 states of Mexico with historically high levels of migration to the United States. MHAS-I had these and other unique features that MHAS-II will replicate and improve in the 3rd and 4th waves. New emphasis areas will be the study of aging in a mixed infectious-chronic epidemiological regime; assessment of the quality of self-report; the continuous culture of Mexico-U.S. migration and its consequences for aging; and the impact of a recent health sector reform in Mexico. This application has the following aims: 1) To carry out a third and fourth waves retaining the original substance of MHAS and adding the new content, following the survivors of waves 1 and 2 and refreshing the sample to yield again (as of wave 3) a representative cross section of the Mexican population aged 50 and over. 2) To enhance data distribution, dissemination, and outreach activities, to expand the knowledge about and use of the data sets and products of the four waves of the Mexican Health and Aging Study. User-friendly web-based platforms that have become available in the last ten years will be employed to provide enhanced public access to the data and project documentation. While the previous MHAS-I provided two waves of data spanning over two years, the analytical significance of the MHAS-II data will be much higher, forming a unique longitudinal study of four waves that span over thirteen years. The new data will enable enhanced research on aging and related population changes: of physical and mental health and disability, health behaviors and health care use, family support, aging and the life course, wealth, income, labor and retirement, migration and old age, and mortality, in a developing country aging fast with limited institutional support for individuals in old age. The data will enable cross-period and cross-cohort analyses of health and aging, and will be highly comparable with other similar studies in developed and developing countries, in particular the United States, enhancing the study of aging and health with a cross-national perspective.