全球老龄化与成人健康研究中国项目进展

我国老龄化程度在不断加深加快，迫切需要有代表性的、可信的、可比的中老年人健康及完满状态的数据，一方面是因为改善中老年人健康、降低发病率需要丰富的中老年人群数据资料分析的经验，另一方面规划社会保障体系（如健康和养老系统）满足我国不断增大的中老年人群的需求也需要基于证据的决策依据。同时，基于大样本长时间追踪的队列研究也在中老年人常见慢性病和失能状况的病因学研究方面拥有优势。本文将介绍全球老龄化与成人健康研究中国项目背景、项目内容和基线，以及项目的优劣势和发展前景等。

Project profile: Study on global AGEing and adult health in China

With accelerating and rapid ageing in China, there is an urgent need to collect reliable, valid and cross-nationally comparable data on health in the elderly to provide basis for richer and empirical analysis on the changing health over one''s life course and compression of morbidity. To meet the demands of this growing special population, planning and preparing on related social protection mechanisms (health and pension systems) should also based on evidence-based decision- making process. Based on long-term follow-up, large scale cohort study is indispensible for the etiology of common chronic diseases and disabling conditions. This study aims to introduce the background, project objectives, contents, baseline characteristics, strength and weakness as well as prospect, related to the Study on global AGEing and adult health in China.