PREHCO Project

News and Announcements

Presentation at the 2004 Meeting of the Population Association of America
Boston, MA
April 1-3, 2004

From left: Dr. Alberto Palloni, Dr. Mary McEniry, Alberto García,
Dr. Ana Luisa Dávila and Dr. Guido Pinto at the PAA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA

Dr. Alberto Palloni presented Health among Elderly Puerto Ricans: Analysis of a New Data Set" (Alberto Palloni, Ana Luisa Davila, Alberto Garcia, Hernando Mattei, and Melba Sanchez)

Presentation at the "Workshop on Aging, wellbeing and health" sponsored by PAHO
December 8-10, 2003
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Dr. Alberto Palloni, Dr. Ana Luisa Dávila, Dr. Carlos Cabán and Alberto García presented the PREHCO Project to an audience of researchers of the elderly population from the United States and Latin American countries.

Funds awarded to the PREHCO Project by the Puerto Rico Legislature.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
September 2003

The "Comisión Especial Conjunta sobre Donativos Legislativos" awarded a $30,000 donation to the project. Funds will be used to produce a report to be distributed to policy makers and governmental agencies.

Presentation at the REVES-15 (Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé) meeting.
Guadalajara, México
May 5-7, 2003

From left: Dr. Cecilia Albala, Dr. Ana Luisa Dávila, Alberto García, Dr. Esther María León, Dr. Richard Suzman, Dr. Martha Peláez and Dr. Laura Rodríguez Wong. Participants in the REVES-15 meeting in Guadalajara, México

Dr. Dávila presented "Socio-economic determinants in life and health expectancies: the PREHCO Project" in the 15th REVES International Meeting held in Guadalajara, México.

Visit of Dr. Richard Hodes, Director of the National Institute on Aging at NIH.
San Juan, PR.
February 25, 2003

From left: Dr. María Santaella, Dr. Richard Hodes, Alberto García, Dr. Ana L. Dávila, and Dr. Melba Sánchez

Dr. Hodes visited the Medical Sciences Campus and the PREHCO Project facilities. The NIA Director discussed with Drs. Melba Sánchez-Ayéndez and Ana Luisa Dávila the progress and details of the project.

Presentation at the Gerontological Society of America 2002 meeting.
Boston, MA.
November 2002

Dr. Sánchez-Ayéndez made a poster presentation about the minimental: A test to evaluate cognitive impairment of older Latino adults in the GSA meeting held in Boston, MA.

Enumerators training.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
October 2002
A one day enumerators training was offered on October 29th, 2002 by the Puerto Rico Project staff.

Presentation at the Puerto Rican Studies Association meeting.
Chicago, Illinois.
October 2002

PRSA Meeting

Dr. Mattei presented "La Población de Puerto Rico: Características Demográficas Generales según el Censo de Población del Año 2000" and Alberto García presented "El uso de los resultados del Censo del 2000 para el estudio del envejecimiento de la población en Puerto Rico: la experiencia del Proyecto PREHCO" in the PRSA meeting held in Chicago, IL.

New training for interviewers.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
September 2002

New Trianing for interviewers

A new interviewers training was conducted on September 20-23 at the Club de la Facultad in the Pharmacy Building of the Medical Sciences Campus. Puerto Rico staff offered the training to 34 interviewers.

Enumerators training.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
August 2002
A one day enumerators training was offered by the Puerto Rico Project staff. August 19th.

New funds awarded to the PREHCO Project by the Puerto Rico Legislature.
August 2002
The "Comisión Especial Conjunta sobre Donativos Legislativos" renewed the $25,000 donation to the project. Funds were used to reinforce the sample strategy and the fieldwork.

First Interviewers Training.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
May 2001

First Interviewers Training

The first interviewers training was carried out from May 17th to the 19th at the Club de la Facultad in the Pharmacy Building of the Medical Sciences Campus. Project staff from Madison and Puerto Rico trained 32 interviewers. The supervisors training was held from May 20th to May 22nd.

Presentation at the "Primera Conferencia Internacional de Salud Pública".
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
April 2002

First International Public Health Conference

The PREHCO Project was presented in the "Primera Conferencia Internacional de Salud Pública", organized by the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Puerto Rico. As part of the panel on aging, Dr. Sánchez, Dr. Mattei, María Larriuz, Dr. Dávila and Dr. Fernández presented four project topics: "The PREHCO Project", "The elderly population in Puerto Rico: results from the 2000 Census", "The use of GIS and GPS technologies in the enumeration of the PREHCO Project sample", "Validation of a test to evaluate the cognitive impairment of elderly Puerto Ricans", and "The experience of the PREHCO Project pilot test".

Enumerators Trainning.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Prepilot Test Enumeration Trainning

A one day enumerators training was offered by the Puerto Rico Project staff. April 5th.

Presentation at the "Taller Internacional sobre Población y Desarrollo", Center for Demographic Studies.
La Habana, Cuba.
February 2002

Moving to the new PREHCO facilities.
December 2001
The PREHCO Project moved to its new facilities at the Biomedical Studies Center 1. The offices are located on the second floor of the building.

Meeting with UW Survey Center staff.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
October 2001
John Stevenson, Theresa Thompson and Brendan Day, from the UW Survey Center visited San Juan to meet the staff in Puerto Rico in order to discuss programming issues, fieldwork strategy, training agenda and project timeline.

Funds awarded to the PREHCO Project by the Puerto Rico Legislature
The "Comisión Especial Conjunta sobre Donativos Legislativos" awarded $25,000 to the project. Funds were used to increase the sample size.

Meeting with Project's Consultants.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
August 2001

Project's Consultants

A meeting was held with the project consultants to discuss final tunings to the questionnaire and the project agenda. All the project consultants attended: Dr. Gerda Fillenbaum, Dr. Robert Wallace, Dr. Kiriakos Markides, Dr. Axel Feller, Dr. Suzanna Waters-Castillo, Dr. Walter Rosich, Dr. Carlos Cabán, Dr. Hernando Mattei, Dr. Esther María León and Dr. Kathryn Terrazas.

Presentation of the PREHCO Project to researchers, administrators and policy makers.
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
August 2001

PREHCO Presentation to Researchers
From left to right: Alberto García, Dr. Alberto Palloni, María Larriuz, Dr. Walter Rosich, Dr. Melba Sánchez, Dr. Carlos Cabán, Dr. Ana Luisa Dávila and Dr. José Carlo.

Dr. Melba Sánchez and Hon. Velda González

The project was presented to researchers, administrators, policy makers and the press. Hon. Velda González, Vice-president of the Puerto Rico Senate, Dr. José R. Carlo, Chancellor of the Medical Sciences Campus, and Dr. Alberto Palloni, Principal Investigator, addressed the importance of the project. Dr. Carlos Cabán and Dr. Sánchez presented the validation of the minimental test for elderly Puerto Ricans preliminary results.

SABE Project Meeting.
Madison, Wisconsin.
April 2001

SABE Project Meeting

Members of the PREHCO Project in Puerto Rico visited Madison to attend a meeting of the SABE Project. Researchers from all the seven countries of the SABE Project, experts from Canada and the United Nations Organization presented their suggestions for the analysis of different topics covered by the SABE survey. Some of the PREHCO consultants, also SABE consultants, attented and discussed the alternatives.