COURAGE: Ageing survey in Europe
WHO’s Evaluation, Measurement and Analysis unit was part of a consortium that secured support from the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to implement a harmonized SAGE-like study covering: health, disability, subjective well-being and health system utilization; social networks; and the built environment, in a sample of approximately 12,000 respondents.
The Collaborative Research on Ageing in Europe (COURAGE) studies were conducted in Finland, Poland, Spain in 2010, with a goal of developing a tool useful to measure health and health-related outcomes for an ageing population. It will provide valid, reliable and comparable measures of population ageing and adult health in Europe - and will provide the basis for cross-country comparisons between the higher income countries in COURAGE and lower income countries in SAGE. Data will be available in 2013.