Trends and Determinants of Healthy Aging in China

Elderly Parents8.1 Introduction8.2 Literature review and research design 8.3 Data and research methods8.4 Research findings8.5 Conclusion
Chapter 9. Self-Assessment of Health and Life Satisfaction and the Determinants among Elderly 9.1 Introduction9.2 Data and research methods9.3 Key findings9.4 Conclusion
Chapter 10. The Analysis on Gender Difference in Self-rated Health among Elderly in China10.1 Introduction10.2 Descriptive analysis10.3 Multivariate statistical analysis10.4 Decomposition analysis10.5 Conclusion
Chapter 11. A Study on the Intensity of Care Needs among the Chinese Elderly 11.1 Introduction11.2 Data and research methods11.3 Key research results11.4 Conclusion
Chapter 12. The Impacts of Universal Medical Insurance Coverage on Health Care Utilization, Financial Burden and Health Status among the Elderly12.1 Introduction12.2 Basic characteristics of the elderly12.3 Changing trend of medical burden among the elderly12.4 Changing trend of the medical expenses, health care utilization and health status of the elderly12.5 Econometric model setup12.6 The impacts of improved social security on health care utilization, financial burden and health status among the elderly 12.7 ConclusionAppendix
Chapter 13. How Does the New Rural Pension Scheme Remold the Elder-care Pattern in Rural China?13.1 Introduction13.2 Literature review13.3 Theoretical framework and empirical analysis approach13.4 Data sources and descriptive statistics13.5 Results of empirical analysis and discussion13.6 Conclusion
Chapter 14. Effects of the New Rural Society Endowment Insurance Program on Intergenerational Transfer14.1 Introduction14.2 Literature review14.3 Data and descriptive statistics 14.4 Econometric model setup14.5 Result of empirical analysis14.6 ConclusionAppendix 1Appendix 2
Chapter 15. Impacts of Changes in Living Arrangements on Elderly Mortality Risk15.1 Introduction15.2 Literature review15.3 Data and research methods15.4 results of the analysis15.5 Conclusion
Chapter 16. Analysis on Influence Factors on Mortality Risk of the Elderly with Mild Cognitive Impairment16.1 Introduction16.2 Literature review16.3 Data sources, research methods and measures16.4 Key research findings16.5 Conclusion
Chapter 17. Associations of Community Environmental Factors with Elderly Health and Mortality in China17.1 Introduction17.2 Data sources, variable definitions and research methods 17.3 Results of the analysis17.4 ConclusionChapter 17 Appendix
Chapter 18. Effects of Interactions between Environmental and Genetic Factors on Health Aging: A Review on the Relevant Prior Research18.1 Introduction18.2 Literature review18.3 An overview of our previous research18.4 Conclusion
PART III. ANALYSES OF BIOMARKERS OF THE ELDERLY
Chapter 19. Chronic Diseases, Biomarkers and Their Influencing Factors in the Elderly19.1 Introduction19.2 Analysis on chronic diseases and related biomarkers of the elderly in the longevity regions19.3 Influencing factors of the elderly' chronic diseases19.4 Relationship between the elderly' dietary nutrition and health19.5 Influencing factors of ADL in the elderly19.6 Conclusion
Chapter 20. Cognitive Impairment and Biomarkers in the Older Adults20.1 Introduction20.2 Prevalence of cognitive impairment in the older adults 20.3 Biomarkers of cognitive impairment20.4 Conclusion
Chapter 21. Mortality Risk and Biomarkers among the Oldest-old21.1 Introduction21.2 Mortality risk of the oldest-old21.3 Analysis on biomarkers of mortality risk of the oldest-old21.4 Conclusion
Chapter 22. Selenium and Healthy Aging22.1 Introduction22.2 Selenium level in the environment and in the elderly's body 22.3 Selenium and cognitive function of the elderly22.4 Selenium and hypertension22.5 Selenium and dyslipidemia22.6 Selenium and diabetes22.7 Conclusion
PART IV. HEALTHY AGING RELATED POLICY ANALYSES
Chapter 23. Demand and Supply of Long-term Care among Elderly in Rural Areas of China and Policy Implications23.1 Introduction23.2 Demand of long-term care among elderly in rural areas23.3 Supply of long-term care among elderly in rural areas23.4 The impacts of social pension system on care for the elderly: would social pension insurance crowd out care from children?23.5 Conclusion: policy recommendations
Chapter 24. Impacts of Childhood Socioeconomic Status on Health of Middle-aged and Elderly and Policy Implications24.1 Introduction24.2 Literature Review24.3 Variables and research method24.4 Analysis of the results24.5 Conclusion: policy recommendation
Chapter 25. Pattern of Old-age Care in Rural China-Lessons Learned from Fieldworks in the Villages38825.1 Introduction25.2 Research location and objects25.3 Data and methods25.4 Research results25.5 Conclusion: policy recommendations
Chapter 26. Welfare Implications of Intergenerational Co-residence: Mutual Benefits for Older Adults and Their Children26.1 Introduction26.2 The impact of intergenerational co-residence on health among the elderly: mental consolation is more than physical caregiving26.3 The impact of intergenerational co-residence on the female adult children labor force participation: elders are treasures in the family26.4 Conclusion: policy recommendation of "bring the family back"
Chapter 27. Implementing the Universal Two-child Policy is Largely Beneficial for Facing the Serious Challenges of Population Aging in China27.1 Introduction27.2 The estimation and assumptions of parameters for the multistate family households projections27.3 Impacts on population aging under different scenarios of fertility policies 27.4 Impacts on the other aspects under different scenarios of fertility policies 27.5 Policy recommendations: urge for the full implementation of "universal two-child policy"
Chapter 28. Integrate Administrations of Health, Family Planning, and Population Aging, to Promote Well-being of Billions Families28.1 Introduction28.2 The trend of household miniaturization and structural change28.3 The impacts of household miniaturization on population aging and energy consumption28.4 Policy recommendations: urge for the integration of health, family planning and population aging administrationsClosing Remarks: Further Study Prospects
Appendix 1 Data Quality Assessment of the 6th and 7th Waves of CLHLS SurveyAppendix 2 Summary Notes of the Domestic Seminars and Training WorkshopsAppendix 3 Summary Notes of the International Seminars
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3.3 Author information Please state details of your area of work, honors, etc. It is appreciated if authors' biography or CV can be provided, containing the paper publication records as well as book publication records. Please highlight the publications related with the envisaged book. -- The CVs of the 4 main authors (i.e editors) Yi Zeng, Jiehua Lu, Xiaoyan Lei and Xiaoming Shi are attached.

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 cha