Mexico Health and Aging Study 2001

General Info

Original or alternative title

Estudio Nacional de Salud y Envejecimiento en México (ENASEM) 2001

Provider

University of Texas Medical Branch

Microdata access: Register

Geography

Mexico (MEX)

Coverage type

Country

Time period covered

May, 2001 - August, 2001

Data type

Survey: Household - Individual - Interview - Longitudinal - Nationally representative - Subnationally representative

Summary

The Mexico Health and Aging Study 2001 (MHAS-2001) is the first round of a longitudinal survey of Mexican adults born prior to 1951, focusing on the health and disease burden of the older population. Survey questionnaires collected data on participants' sociodemographic characteristics, physical and mental health status, use of health services, family relationships, occupation, and financial status. Anthropometric measurements were collected from a subsample of the study population.

Participants were selected from a target sample of 11,000 households drawn to include Mexican-born migrants living in the United States, migrants who return to Mexico after living in the United States for some time, and Mexicans who had never lived in the United States. A total of 15,186 individual interviews were completed.

A second period of data collection occurred in 2003; follow up surveys were also planned to take place in 2012 and 2015.

Keywords

Aged adults, Agriculture, Alcohol use, Alcohol use disorders, Anthropometry, Assets, Biopsy, Birth place, Blood tests, Body mass index, Breathing difficulty, Cancers, Chemotherapy, Chronic respiratory diseases, Cooking fuels, Corrective lenses, Cough, Dental care, Diabetes, Domestic migration, Drug consumption, Education, Employment, Employment benefits, Falls, Family composition, Family size, Fatigue, Health care access, Health care use, Health insurance, Health status, Hemorrhagic stroke, Hospitals, Hours worked, Household air pollution, Housing, Housing conditions, Hypertension, Injuries, Insulin, International migration, Ischemic heart disease, Land ownership, Languages, Limited mobility, Literacy, Live births, Loans, Lower respiratory infections, Marital status, Marriage age, Mass media, Medical tests, Medicines, Mobility aids, Multiple births, Occupations, Osteoarthritis, Pain, Pap smears, Parental survival, Parents, Personal health expenditures, Pesticides, Polio, Private health facilities, Private social assistance, Public health facilities, Public social assistance, Radiation therapy, Refrigeration, Religion, Rheumatoid arthritis, Sanitation, Screening mammography, Sensory aids, Stroke, Summary birth history, Summary sibling history, Symptoms, Telephones, Tetanus toxoid vaccines, Tobacco smoking, Traditional medicine, Tuberculosis, Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, Vision loss, Water supply, Weight change

Citation

Contributors

University of Maryland

University of Wisconsin

National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics (Mexico)

Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania

Funders

National Institute on Aging (NIA), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Suggested citation

National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics (Mexico), Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin. Mexico Health and Aging Study 2001.