Trends and Determinants of Healthy Aging in China

PART I. TRENDS OF HEALTHY AGING IN CHINA
Chapter 1. Introduction to CLHLS Survey: the 6th and 7th Waves 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Survey design and characteristics of the 6th wave in 2011 and 7th wave in 2014 1.3 Main contents of the survey 1.4 Data quality assessment
Chapter 2. Changes in Socioeconomic Status as Determinants of Health with Increase in Ages: Convergence or Divergence? 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Literature review and research design 2.3 Data and research methods2.4 Research results 2.5 Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Age, Gender, Urban-Rural and Regional Differences in Dynamic Changes of Activity of Daily Living among the Chinese Oldest-old 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Basic information of respondents 3.3 Results of the analyses 3.4 Conclusion
Chapter 4. Trends of Dynamic Changes in Activities of Daily Living, Physical Performance, Cognitive Function and Mortality Rates among the Oldest-old in China 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Data and research methods 4.3 Main research results 4.4 ConclusionAppendix
Chapter 5. The Trends of Family Support for the Chinese Oldest-old 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Literature review of related research 5.3 Main data resource and research methods 5.4 Changes of family support to the oldest-old in different time periods 5.5 Changes of family support to the oldest-old from different cohorts5.6 Conclusion
Chapter 6. Analysis on Trends of Future Home-based Care Needs and Costs for Elderly in China 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Basic theoretical framework and multistate projection model for home-based care needs and costs for the elderly 6.3 Data sources, estimates and parameters assumptions 6.4 The projection results and discussions6.5 Conclusion
PART II. DETERMINANTS OF HEALTHY AGING
Chapter 7. The Impact of Empty-nested Living on Physical and Psychological Health among Chinese Elders 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Literature review 7.3 Research design 7.4 The results and findings 7.5 Conclusion
Chapter 8. The Motives and Mechanisms of Intergenerational Transfer to the Elderly Parents 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Literature review and research design 8.3 Data and research methods8.4 Research findings 8.5 Conclusion
Chapter 9. Self-Assessment of Health and Life Satisfaction and the Determinants among Elderly 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Data and research methods 9.3 Key findings 9.4 Conclusion
Chapter 10. The Analysis on Gender Difference in Self-rated Health among Elderly in China 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Descriptive analysis 10.3 Multivariate statistical analysis 10.4 Decomposition analysis 10.5 Conclusion
Chapter 11. A Study on the Intensity of Care Needs among the Chinese Elderly 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Data and research methods 11.3 Key research results 11.4 Conclusion
Chapter 12. The Impacts of Universal Medical Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization, Financial Burden and Health Status among the Elderly 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Basic characteristics of the elderly 12.3 Changing trend of medical burden among the elderly 12.4 Changing trend of the medical expenses, health care utilization and health status of the elde

Yi Zeng is a professor of National School of Development and honorary director of Center for Healthy Aging and Development, Peking University. He is also a professor at the Center for Study of Aging and Human Development and Geriatric Division of School of Medicine, Duke University. He is a member of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries, and a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his Ph.D. with Summa Cum Laude from Brussels Free University (1986) and pursued research as Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University (1986-87). Up to November, 2021, he has published 388 professional articles in domestic and international journals or as book chapters. He has published thirtyone academic books, including eleven books in English and 20 books in Chinese. Yi Zeng has been awarded four international academic prizes and eleven national academic prizes of China, such as: The International Union for Scientific Studies of Populations (IUSSP) 2021 Laureate which is awarded to one scholar annually worldwide, the Dorothy Thomas Prize of the Population Association of America, the Harold D. Lasswell Prize in Policy Science awarded by the journal Policy Sciences and Kluwer Academic Publishers, the best paper Award of American Journal of Public Health, the national prizes for advancement of science and technology, the highest academic honor of Peking University: "Prize for Outstanding Contributions in Sciences," and the national "Chinese Population Prize (Science and Technology)." In 2019, he received "National Medal of Outstanding Contributions" awarded by the Central Government of China.

Jiehua Lu is a professor of Department of Sociology and deputy director of Center for Healthy Aging and Development Studies at Peking University. He also serves as the vice president of Chinese Population Association and of vice president of Chinese Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics. He received his Ph.D. in Demography from Peking University (1997). His research areas include demography, gerontology, economics of population, and interaction between population and environment. He has been the principal investigator for over ten key projects and published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, such as "Chinese Women's Family Status: Analysis of Chinese Decennial Survey, 1990-2010," "Determinants Affecting Longevity at County Level in China," "Patterns of living arrangements of the elderly in Mainland China: changes, consequences and policy implications," etc. He authored/co-authored in over ten book chapters and books, such as "Chapter 3: Changing Patterns of Marriage and Divorce in Today's China," Isabelle and Gu, Baochang (eds.), Analyzing China's Population: Social Change in a New Demographic Era. Berlin: Springer.

Xiaoyan Lei is a professor at National School of Development and the director of Center for Healthy Aging and Development at Peking University (PKU) in China. She also serves as the deputy director of PKU Center for Human Capital and National Policy, China. She is the editor of renowned publications such as China Economic Quarterly, Journal of Economics of Aging, and Journal of Health Economics. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles, USA (2007). Her areas of research interests include labor economics, health economics, the economics of aging and applied econometrics. She has been awarded many prizes, such as "Chinese Ministry of Education Yangtze River Young Scholar, PKU Boya Young Scholar" (2019), "China Medical Science and Technology Second Award" (2018), "Excellent Research in Art and Social Science, Peking University" (2013-2014), etc. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and authored/co-authored in many book chapters and books. One of her recent co-authored paper entitled "New trends in population aging and challenges for China's sustainable development" has published in China Economic Journal in 2020.

Xiaoming Shi is a professor and the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health (NIEH) at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC). He received his MD from Anhui Medical University of China (1999) and Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Health Statistics from China CDC (2005). He joined the branch of Infectious Disease Surveillance at China CDC in 2005 and then worked as the head of the Branch of Monitoring and Evaluation, Division of Chronic Diseases Control and Community Health at China CDC. Since 2015, he was appointed as the director of NIEH at China CDC. His research has focused on the determinants of health and longevity, risk assessments of air pollution, heavy metals and other environmental exposures, etc. He has extensive experiences working with numerous chronic diseases and aging studies in Chinese populations. He has published over 190 peer-reviewed journal articles and authored/co-authored in over ten book chapters and books. He is also the editor of many renowned publications such as Global Health Journal and Journal of Environmental & Occupational Medicine.