NIA/PARC Supplements Awarded
Year 14| 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7
Year 10 (7/1/03-6/30/04)
End-life-treatment Choices and Spousal Impoverishment
Principal Investigator(s): Chao, Li-Wei
Aims:
To analyze both the expressed preference and the revealed preference
in spouses' treatment decisions prior to death.
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Demographic and Epidemiological Transition: The Mexico Case
Principal Investigator(s): Soldo, Beth J. and Wong, Rebecca
Aims:
To strengthen the knowledge and know-how surrounding surveys
in and outside Mexico on health spending; to design and organize
a session on surveys and data in the international conference
on Innovations in Health Financing; to fund research work and
develop ongoing collaboration between the Mexican Health Foundation
and researchers in the NIA-funded Mexican Health and Aging Survey(MHAS).
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Social Security and Medicare data to the NRC/NAS Twin Registry
Principal Investigator(s): Behrman, Jere and Kohler, Hans-Peter
Aims:
Health Spending, Health System Finance, and Health Sector Reform
in the Context of conducting research on aging in the U.S. utilizing
the "twins experiment" - including aspects such as
(i) health disparities, (ii) interrelations between health,
work and retirement, (iii) genetics behavior and the social
environment, (iv) the relations to income and saving to health
and/or retirement.
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Living Arrangements of the Elderly Population in Africa in
the Era of HIV/AIDS
Principal Investigator(s): Zuberi, Tukufu
Aims:
To research health and mortality patterns of several African
populations before the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the changing household
structures of the population.
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Microsimulation of HIV Transmission Across the Life Cycle
in sub-Saharan Africa
Principal Investigator(s): Watkins, Susan C.
Aims:
To develop a microsimulation model to examine the dynamics
of HIV transmission across the life course in sub-Saharan African
countries with relatively high levels of HIV.
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Secure Data
Principal Investigator(s): Soldo, Beth J.
Aims:
To develop computer and administrative systems for the management
of sensitive data files.
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