Strengthening the Scientific Foundation for Policymaking to Meet the Challenges of Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean Summary of a Workshop (2015) / Chapter Skim
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8 Opportunities to Generate Evidence on Older Adults and Move the Research Agenda Forward
8 Opportunities to Generate Evidence on Older Adults and Move the Research Agenda Forward
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in 1999, Rebeca Wong said important beginning steps were to identify the key and unique scientific issues that needed to be addressed, and to plan for longitudinal national data and open data access for the scientific community. One unique element in MHAS, she said, was a focus on the migration of older adults to and from the United States, and the MHAS sample includes recent migrants, historical migrants who migrated 40 or 50 years ago, and individuals with family networks in the United States.
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One out of five Mexicans aged 50 and older has at least one son or daughter in the United States. William Dow, University of California, Berkeley, provided more details on the Costa Rican Study of Longevity Healthy Aging (CRELES)
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With regard to mortality analysis, researchers also developed a database of 20,000 individuals aged 35 and older drawn from the 1984 Costa Rican census, and have been following them over time in the death registry. This is an example of the type of administrative data linkages that Dow encourages other studies to do in order to increase sample sizes for analyses.
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The second factor, which has been mentioned in other sessions, is the role that the international community has played, particularly the close collaboration with researchers involved with the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing that helped define core survey modules and key variables. He suggested the experiences of MHAS and ELSI-Brazil would be of use for the development of new studies in other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, particularly because most if not all countries share a history of social and health inequalities.
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Six nationally representative SAGE surveys have been conducted, in China, India, Russia, Mexico, Ghana, and South Africa. The surveys involve about 45,000 people aged 50 and older, with a comparative cohort between the ages of 18 and 49, and incorporate most of the variables discussed during this workshop, including household health examinations and the collection of biomarkers using dry blood spots.
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. SABE Colombia is a joint initiative between the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection and the Universidad del Valle in conjunction with the National Consultancy Center, an entity that does field work.
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He stressed the need for more innovative methods of obtaining population health information, particularly surveys that can target behaviors and be linked to the growing quantity of information from other sources. Enrique Vega, Pan American Health Organization, commented that the multinational SABE project in 1999–2000 represented a leap for the LAC region that at the time did not have a significant aging study.
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Mexico has had a program for the care of the elderly for 15 years, but the program has not had its own financing; rather, it is funded by global financing for chronic disease. What is needed is to better connect the type of research presented in the workshop with the health and caregiving costs that countries will encounter as their populations age, he urged, as more effective cost projections and potential savings projections would help persuade governments to reallocate resources.
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