Understanding Inequality in Elderly Well-being in China and the UK
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Oxford
Department Name: Population Health
Abstract
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Publications
Lei X
(2014)
Depressive symptoms and SES among the mid-aged and elderly in China: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study national baseline.
in Social science & medicine (1982)
Lei X
(2014)
Health outcomes and socio-economic status among the mid-aged and elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS national baseline data
in The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
Lei X
(2012)
Socioeconomic status and chronic diseases: The case of hypertension in China
in China Economic Review
| Title | CHARLS questionnaire |
| Description | improvement on measures of subject well being module in CHARLS inclusion of life history questionnaire, a new module, in CHARLS |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | data made publicly available in 2016, expected to generate more high quality research using subjective well being and life history questionnaires |
| Title | life history questionnaire |
| Description | adoption of life history questionnaire in CHARLS, 2014 follow up; similar to those used in ELSA. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | similar life history questionnaires now available in CHARLS and ELSA, expected to generate comparative analyses and also research that examines the life course perspective on health and well being. |
| URL | http://charls.ccer.edu.cn/zh-CN/articles/209?category=news |
| Description | CHARLS ELSA |
| Organisation | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Please note that the original PI for the grant was Albert Park of Oxford University. This was changed to Winnie Yip of Oxford University after Park moved to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in August 2011. Park became a consultant on the project but continued to play the leadership role on the project. This change was approved by ESRC. Yip has done prior work on inequalities and health and well being in China and was PI of a project funded by the National Science Foundation in the US, examining the effects of out migration on the health and wellbeing of the left behind elderly in rural China. During the life of this ESRC award, Yip contributed her knowledge and experience on the measurement of health, subjective well being especially as they apply to the Chinese elderly population. Also, Yip is an expert on China's health care system and she made significant contribution to CHARLS in the analysis and questionnaire design on areas related to health systems, including health insurance coverage, health services delivery, which can be used in the future to analyse how health system design may contribute to inequalities in health and well being of the older population in China. Yip played significant roles in training and capacity building, delivering lectures and reviewing proposals by junior faculty and students using CHARLS during her visits to Peking University. Finally, Yip organised seminars and discussion groups at the University of Oxford which the UK and China researchers of this award participated in to discuss analyses, progress and to present to the larger audience at Oxford and around interested in issues of aging and more broadly, the use of longitudinal data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Steptoe and Banks (PI of ELSA) gave helpful advice and training to the CHARLS team on technical survey measurement issues related to data imputation, the design of survey questions to measure subjective well-being, and the design of a life history questionnaire. They also contributed to training activities in China, delivered lectures and discussed research proposals of Chinese participants, improved research capacity of junior faculty and aging researchers from throughout China. Through them, their networks and activities, UK social science academic researchers and policy analysts were made aware of the availability of high quality longitudinal survey data on aging in China. For example, CHARLS PI Yaohui Zhao was invited to present at the Launch Event for Wave 5 of the England Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), London, October 15, 2012, on CHARLS and on findings from this ESRC award, on the relationship between socioeconomic status and health and well being among elderlies in China and England. Steptoe also presented findings from this project at CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) Symposium on Functioning well in later life: What is the evidence from longitudinal studies?, Institute of Education, London. Banks also made a presentation to Chinese policy-makers on the ways in which ELSA research had impacted policy formulation in the UK. |
| Impact | A collaborative relationship was established between leading researchers working on high quality longitudinal studies of aging in China (CHARLS) and the UK (ELSA), which increased the scientific capacities of both surveys, especially CHARLS. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, including economics (Banks, Park, Zhao, Yip), social epidemiology and psychology (Steptoe), policy science (Yip). The collaboration has contributed to three major conference presentations, three journal papers, and a thesis. Based on advice from the ELSA PIs, the CHARLS life history questionnaire was designed and then fielded in 2014. This has been made public on June 1, 2016 via the CHARLS website. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | CHARLS ELSA |
| Organisation | Peking University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Please note that the original PI for the grant was Albert Park of Oxford University. This was changed to Winnie Yip of Oxford University after Park moved to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in August 2011. Park became a consultant on the project but continued to play the leadership role on the project. This change was approved by ESRC. Yip has done prior work on inequalities and health and well being in China and was PI of a project funded by the National Science Foundation in the US, examining the effects of out migration on the health and wellbeing of the left behind elderly in rural China. During the life of this ESRC award, Yip contributed her knowledge and experience on the measurement of health, subjective well being especially as they apply to the Chinese elderly population. Also, Yip is an expert on China's health care system and she made significant contribution to CHARLS in the analysis and questionnaire design on areas related to health systems, including health insurance coverage, health services delivery, which can be used in the future to analyse how health system design may contribute to inequalities in health and well being of the older population in China. Yip played significant roles in training and capacity building, delivering lectures and reviewing proposals by junior faculty and students using CHARLS during her visits to Peking University. Finally, Yip organised seminars and discussion groups at the University of Oxford which the UK and China researchers of this award participated in to discuss analyses, progress and to present to the larger audience at Oxford and around interested in issues of aging and more broadly, the use of longitudinal data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Steptoe and Banks (PI of ELSA) gave helpful advice and training to the CHARLS team on technical survey measurement issues related to data imputation, the design of survey questions to measure subjective well-being, and the design of a life history questionnaire. They also contributed to training activities in China, delivered lectures and discussed research proposals of Chinese participants, improved research capacity of junior faculty and aging researchers from throughout China. Through them, their networks and activities, UK social science academic researchers and policy analysts were made aware of the availability of high quality longitudinal survey data on aging in China. For example, CHARLS PI Yaohui Zhao was invited to present at the Launch Event for Wave 5 of the England Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), London, October 15, 2012, on CHARLS and on findings from this ESRC award, on the relationship between socioeconomic status and health and well being among elderlies in China and England. Steptoe also presented findings from this project at CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) Symposium on Functioning well in later life: What is the evidence from longitudinal studies?, Institute of Education, London. Banks also made a presentation to Chinese policy-makers on the ways in which ELSA research had impacted policy formulation in the UK. |
| Impact | A collaborative relationship was established between leading researchers working on high quality longitudinal studies of aging in China (CHARLS) and the UK (ELSA), which increased the scientific capacities of both surveys, especially CHARLS. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, including economics (Banks, Park, Zhao, Yip), social epidemiology and psychology (Steptoe), policy science (Yip). The collaboration has contributed to three major conference presentations, three journal papers, and a thesis. Based on advice from the ELSA PIs, the CHARLS life history questionnaire was designed and then fielded in 2014. This has been made public on June 1, 2016 via the CHARLS website. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | CHARLS ELSA |
| Organisation | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Please note that the original PI for the grant was Albert Park of Oxford University. This was changed to Winnie Yip of Oxford University after Park moved to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in August 2011. Park became a consultant on the project but continued to play the leadership role on the project. This change was approved by ESRC. Yip has done prior work on inequalities and health and well being in China and was PI of a project funded by the National Science Foundation in the US, examining the effects of out migration on the health and wellbeing of the left behind elderly in rural China. During the life of this ESRC award, Yip contributed her knowledge and experience on the measurement of health, subjective well being especially as they apply to the Chinese elderly population. Also, Yip is an expert on China's health care system and she made significant contribution to CHARLS in the analysis and questionnaire design on areas related to health systems, including health insurance coverage, health services delivery, which can be used in the future to analyse how health system design may contribute to inequalities in health and well being of the older population in China. Yip played significant roles in training and capacity building, delivering lectures and reviewing proposals by junior faculty and students using CHARLS during her visits to Peking University. Finally, Yip organised seminars and discussion groups at the University of Oxford which the UK and China researchers of this award participated in to discuss analyses, progress and to present to the larger audience at Oxford and around interested in issues of aging and more broadly, the use of longitudinal data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Steptoe and Banks (PI of ELSA) gave helpful advice and training to the CHARLS team on technical survey measurement issues related to data imputation, the design of survey questions to measure subjective well-being, and the design of a life history questionnaire. They also contributed to training activities in China, delivered lectures and discussed research proposals of Chinese participants, improved research capacity of junior faculty and aging researchers from throughout China. Through them, their networks and activities, UK social science academic researchers and policy analysts were made aware of the availability of high quality longitudinal survey data on aging in China. For example, CHARLS PI Yaohui Zhao was invited to present at the Launch Event for Wave 5 of the England Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), London, October 15, 2012, on CHARLS and on findings from this ESRC award, on the relationship between socioeconomic status and health and well being among elderlies in China and England. Steptoe also presented findings from this project at CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) Symposium on Functioning well in later life: What is the evidence from longitudinal studies?, Institute of Education, London. Banks also made a presentation to Chinese policy-makers on the ways in which ELSA research had impacted policy formulation in the UK. |
| Impact | A collaborative relationship was established between leading researchers working on high quality longitudinal studies of aging in China (CHARLS) and the UK (ELSA), which increased the scientific capacities of both surveys, especially CHARLS. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, including economics (Banks, Park, Zhao, Yip), social epidemiology and psychology (Steptoe), policy science (Yip). The collaboration has contributed to three major conference presentations, three journal papers, and a thesis. Based on advice from the ELSA PIs, the CHARLS life history questionnaire was designed and then fielded in 2014. This has been made public on June 1, 2016 via the CHARLS website. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | CHARLS ELSA |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Please note that the original PI for the grant was Albert Park of Oxford University. This was changed to Winnie Yip of Oxford University after Park moved to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in August 2011. Park became a consultant on the project but continued to play the leadership role on the project. This change was approved by ESRC. Yip has done prior work on inequalities and health and well being in China and was PI of a project funded by the National Science Foundation in the US, examining the effects of out migration on the health and wellbeing of the left behind elderly in rural China. During the life of this ESRC award, Yip contributed her knowledge and experience on the measurement of health, subjective well being especially as they apply to the Chinese elderly population. Also, Yip is an expert on China's health care system and she made significant contribution to CHARLS in the analysis and questionnaire design on areas related to health systems, including health insurance coverage, health services delivery, which can be used in the future to analyse how health system design may contribute to inequalities in health and well being of the older population in China. Yip played significant roles in training and capacity building, delivering lectures and reviewing proposals by junior faculty and students using CHARLS during her visits to Peking University. Finally, Yip organised seminars and discussion groups at the University of Oxford which the UK and China researchers of this award participated in to discuss analyses, progress and to present to the larger audience at Oxford and around interested in issues of aging and more broadly, the use of longitudinal data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Steptoe and Banks (PI of ELSA) gave helpful advice and training to the CHARLS team on technical survey measurement issues related to data imputation, the design of survey questions to measure subjective well-being, and the design of a life history questionnaire. They also contributed to training activities in China, delivered lectures and discussed research proposals of Chinese participants, improved research capacity of junior faculty and aging researchers from throughout China. Through them, their networks and activities, UK social science academic researchers and policy analysts were made aware of the availability of high quality longitudinal survey data on aging in China. For example, CHARLS PI Yaohui Zhao was invited to present at the Launch Event for Wave 5 of the England Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA), London, October 15, 2012, on CHARLS and on findings from this ESRC award, on the relationship between socioeconomic status and health and well being among elderlies in China and England. Steptoe also presented findings from this project at CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) Symposium on Functioning well in later life: What is the evidence from longitudinal studies?, Institute of Education, London. Banks also made a presentation to Chinese policy-makers on the ways in which ELSA research had impacted policy formulation in the UK. |
| Impact | A collaborative relationship was established between leading researchers working on high quality longitudinal studies of aging in China (CHARLS) and the UK (ELSA), which increased the scientific capacities of both surveys, especially CHARLS. This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, including economics (Banks, Park, Zhao, Yip), social epidemiology and psychology (Steptoe), policy science (Yip). The collaboration has contributed to three major conference presentations, three journal papers, and a thesis. Based on advice from the ELSA PIs, the CHARLS life history questionnaire was designed and then fielded in 2014. This has been made public on June 1, 2016 via the CHARLS website. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | China policymakers presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | James Banks presented and discussed how ELSA contributed to policy dialogue and heightened understanding among Chinese policymakers the value of CHARLS for analyses that can contribute to China's design and implementation of health policies and ageing policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Research presentation: Well-being in China and England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations at ELSA Wave 5 Launch Conference, Royal Society, London, October 15th 2012 led to further interest of the potential value of comparative analyses using health and retirement surveys from around the world. The comparison between UK and China is just a starting point. Presentation at Health and ageing in low, middle and high-income countries, biannual meetings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Busan, Korea, August 29, 2013 reached a wide audience of researchers interested in populations and raging and the value of using publicly valuable cohort data to conduct comparative analyses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013 |
| Description | Subjective wellbeing in later life: an international perspective. CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) Symposium on Functioning well in later life: What is the evidence from longitudinal studies? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 200 researchers, practitioners, funders working on longitudinal studies, including those related to health, ageing, well being attended, engaged in valuable discussions on the value and use of longitudinal and cohort data to contribute to understanding health and well being and comparative analyses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |