Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 100 Page 101 Page 102 Page 103 Page 104 Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 Page 10867 CHAPTER 4 | CROSS-NATIONAL HEALTH DISPARITIES AND US DISADVANTAGE Going Global The HRS Family of Studies Because of its innovation and importance, HRS has become the model for a network of harmonized longitudinal aging studies around the world. Studies that have adapted the HRS model use the same basic study design and measures that are either the same or similar enough to be equivalent across data sets. The availability of comparable cross-national data presents opportunities for new research. The HRS global enterprise includes a growing number of sister studies (see list to right). Some are only just beginning; others now have several waves of data collection such as the Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) (Zhao et al. 2014). Studies included in this chapter include the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) (Steptoe et al. 2013), the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) (Kearney et al. 2011), and the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). HRS Sister Studies ELSA  English Longitudinal Study of Ageing SHARE  Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxemborg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland) JSTAR  Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement TILDA  The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing MHAS  Mexican Health and Aging Study HAGIS  Healthy Ageing in Scotland KLoSA  Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing CHARLS Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study ELSI-BRASIL Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging LASI  Longitudinal Aging Study in India IFLS  Indonesian Family Life Survey HART  Study on Health, Aging, and Retirement in Thailand NICOLA  Northern Ireland Cohort Longitudinal Study of Ageing CLSA  Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging HAALSI  Health and Aging in Africa CRELES  Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Studies SAGE  WHO Study on Global Aging and Adult Health