b'CHAPTER 4 | CROSS-NATIONAL HEALTH DISPARITIES AND US DISADVANTAGEGoing Global HRS Sister StudiesELSAEnglish Longitudinal Study of AgeingThe HRS Family of StudiesBecause of its innovation and importance, HRS has become the modelSHARESurvey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in for a network of harmonized longitudinal aging studies around theEurope (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, world. Studies that have adapted the HRS model use the same basicDenmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, study design and measures that are either the same or similar enoughHungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxemborg, to be equivalent across data sets. The availability of comparableNetherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, cross-national data presents opportunities for new research.Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland)The HRS global enterprise includes a growing number of sisterJSTARJapanese Study of Aging and Retirementstudies (see list to right). Some are only just beginning; others now have several waves of data collection such as the Chinese Health andTILDAThe Irish Longitudinal Study on AgeingRetirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) (Zhao et al. 2014). Studies included in this chapter include the Mexican Health and Aging StudyMHASMexican Health and Aging Study(MHAS), English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) (Steptoe etHAGISHealthy Ageing in Scotlandal. 2013), the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) (Kearney et al. 2011), and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement inKLoSAKorean Longitudinal Study of AgeingEurope (SHARE).CHARLSChinese Health and RetirementLongitudinal StudyELSI-BRASILBrazilian Longitudinal Study of AgingLASILongitudinal Aging Study in IndiaIFLSIndonesian Family Life SurveyHARTStudy on Health, Aging, and Retirementin Thailand NICOLANorthern Ireland CohortLongitudinal Study of AgeingCLSACanadian Longitudinal Study on AgingHAALSIHealth and Aging in Africa CRELESCosta Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Studies SAGEWHO Study on Global Aging and Adult Health 67'