Aging in Asia Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 451-466
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A Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellow in population studies at the London School of Economics from 1999–2000, he has been a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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DAVID E BLOOM is Clarence James Gamble professor of economics and demography at the Harvard School of Public Health, director of Harvard University's Program on the Global Demography of Aging, and principal investigator of the Longitudinal Aging Study in India.
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He is the recipient of an Outstanding Teacher Award, the Upjohn Institute's International Dissertation Research Award, the Kenneth Arrow Award for best paper in health economics, and the Eugene Garfield Award for the impact of medical research. He has been a consultant to the RAND Corporation, Microsoft, and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts.
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in social medicine and public health management from Fu Dan University in Shanghai. KEVIN FEENEY is a research assistant at the RAND Corporation and technical advisor for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India pilot.
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His primary research focus has been on biomarkers, psychosocial factors, and their relations with health outcomes in older adults. He has extensive research experience working with large population-based surveys in multiple countries examining the relations between socioeconomic factors and health, including the Longitudinal Aging Study in India, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, the Indo nesia Family Life Survey, the Midlife in the United States Study, and the Internal Migration and Health in China Project.
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He was the key national coordinator of noncommunicable disease risk factor surveillance in 2004, 2007, and 2010, and he was key investigator in the World Health Organi zation's Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health in China. He has con ducted original research in aging health, health informatics, geographic epidemiology, and surveillance of chronic diseases and risk factors.
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JINKOOK LEE is senior economist at RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Before joining RAND, she was a professor at the Ohio State University and has held visiting positions at the Federal Reserve Board and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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LIN LI is associate chief physician and a researcher in the Institute of Hospital Management Research at the People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing, China, and a research fellow in the China Center for Health Economics Research at Peking University. He has extensive experience in hospital management and was an administrative assistant in a military hospital.
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National Institutes of Health predoctoral and postdoctoral fellow, her research applies critical theory and mixed-method evaluations to the understanding of policy making on health and its social determinants, focusing in particular on the role of the private nonprofit sector and civil society in health promotion across the life span. She has conducted research and has ongoing research collaborations in Australia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tanzania, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Formerly head of the Department of Cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Reddy is a global leader in preventive cardiology and has worked to promote cardiovascular health, tobacco control, chronic disease prevention, and healthy living across the life span. He has served on many expert panels of the World Health Organization and chairs the Science and Policy Initiatives Committee of the World Heart Federation.
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He is one of the national coordinators of demographic and health surveys undertaken by IIPS, such as the District Level Household and Facility Survey for the India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health, and the Longitudinal Aging Study in India. He is the editor of the journal Demography India.
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Her publications appear in the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Asia Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics, and the China Journal of Economics, among others. She is a reviewer for the China Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, World Development, the International Economic Journal, the China Economic Quarterly, the Journal of Econometrics, and the China Journal of Economics.
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He has been the principal investigator of the Indonesia Family Life Survey for Waves 3 and 4 and is co-principal investigator of the China Health and Retire ment Longitudinal Study. He has held academic positions at Michigan State University, Yale University, and the University of Virginia.
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He has also written extensively about the saving effect of personal retirement programs, the market risk of personal accounts compared with the job-change risk of defined benefit pension plans, and the future accumulation of pension assets associated with the conversion from retirement saving through defined benefit plans to saving through 401(k) and other personal retirement plans.
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YAOHUI ZHAO is professor of economics at the China Center for Economic Research of Peking University in China and a research fellow at the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany. She is deputy director of the Institute for Social Science Surveys of Peking University.
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