AGEING IN CHINA AND AUSTRALIA: SOCIAL ECONOMIC AND HEALTH IMPLICATIONS

摘要

Population ageing in China and Australia are presenting significant challenges and opportunities in both countries in planning for and adjusting proactively to social and policy change. Led by a multi-disciplinary team of cross-national researchers, this Symposium will present comparative findings on determinants of health, productivity, and wellbeing in the context of each country’s cultural and social structural context, drawing from a range of large scale studies from China and Australia, followed by discussion on policy implications within these contexts.The panel themes consist of quantitative results and policy discussion. Based on the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and the China Health, Ageing, and Retirement Survey (CHARLS), Kendig and Gong will present findings on the pattern of caregiving, living standards, and life satisfaction; and Nazroo, Gong, and Kendig will discuss their comparative results on workforce engagement in later life between the two countries. Yiengprugsawan, D’Este, and Byles will investigate socio-geographical variations on health and wellbeing based on the China component of the World Health Organization’s Study on global AGEing and adult health (WHO-SAGE). Browning, Thomas, Chapman and their Chinese colleagues including Yang and Zeqi will discuss primary health care reform in China and the links to Australian approaches with a specific emphasis on the management of chronic illnesses in older people.The Symposium is supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Research Excellence in Population Ageing Research and Shenzhen International Institute for Primary Health Care Research.