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STUDIES OF HEALTH, RETIREMENT AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF THE AGING POPULATION IN

Award Number: R03TW008358
ORGANIZATION: FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2009
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2012

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STUDIES OF HEALTH, RETIREMENT AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF THE AGING POPULATION IN - 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.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2011 ( Subtotal = $50,746 )
2011	2011	PEKING UNIVERSITY	COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES 10087	BEIJING				CHN	International Research and Research Training	000	3	7/13/2011	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$50,746
2011	2011	PEKING UNIVERSITY	COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES 10087	BEIJING				CHN	International Research and Research Training	001	3	8/8/2011	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $50,746

Issue Date FY: 2010 ( Subtotal = $50,746 )
2010	2010	PEKING UNIVERSITY	COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES 10087	BEIJING				CHN	International Research and Research Training	000	2	7/23/2010	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$50,746
														Subtotal = $50,746

Issue Date FY: 2009 ( Subtotal = $50,758 )
2009	2009	PEKING UNIVERSITY	COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES 10087	BEIJING				CHN	International Research and Research Training	001	1	9/21/2009	NEW	$0
2009	2009	PEKING UNIVERSITY	COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES 10087	BEIJING				CHN	International Research and Research Training	000	1	8/18/2009	NEW	$50,758
														Subtotal = $50,758

Grand Total All Awards = $152,250

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STUDIES OF HEALTH, RETIREMENT AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS OF THE AGING POPULATION IN

Award Number: R03TW008358

ORGANIZATION: FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2009

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 06/30/2012

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