Lima-Costa, MF;
De Andrade, FB;
Borges de Souza, Jr, PR;
Neri, AL;
De Oliveira Duarte, YA;
Castro-Costa, E;
De Oliveira, C;
(2018)
The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil): Objectives and Design.
American Journal of Epidemiology
, 187
(7)
pp. 1345-1353.
10.1093/aje/kwx387.
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Abstract
Brazil is experiencing among the world’s fastest demographic aging worldwide. This demographic transition is occurring in a context of few resources and great social inequalities. The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil) is a nationally representative study of 9,412 people aged 50 years or older, residing in 70 municipalities across the 5 Brazilian regions. ELSI-Brazil allows investigations of the aging process, its health, psychosocial and economic determinants, and societal consequences. The baseline examination (2015–2016) included detailed household and individual interviews and physical measurements (blood pressure, anthropometry, grip strength, and timed walk and balance tests). Blood tests and sample storage were performed in a subsample of study participants. Subsequent waves are planned for every 3 years. The study adopts a conceptual framework common to other large-scale longitudinal studies of aging in the world, such as the Health and Retirement Study, allowing cross-national comparisons. The goal of ELSI-Brazil is not only to build an understanding of aging in a large, Western, middle-income country in a rapid demographic transition but also to provide scientific data to support and study policy changes that may affect older adults. We describe the methodology of the study and some descriptive results of the baseline survey.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil): Objectives and Design |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/aje/kwx387 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwx387 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | aging, Brazil, chronic diseases, cohort study, epidemiologic methods, functioning, middle-income country |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040962 |
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