MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

候选人计划开发一个论文项目， 使用正偏差来识别相关因素 在超过2200名的队列中， 菲律宾儿童从宿务纵向健康和 营养调查。 CLHNS队列是第一个 在1983-84年出生时确定， 每两（2）个月为生命的前两年。 两 1991年和1994年又收集了几轮数据。 关于儿童、母亲、 每一轮都聚集了家庭和社区。 的 样本包括城市和农村地区的家庭 在菲律宾的宿务市， 从广泛的社会经济背景，虽然 大多数是穷人。 儿童的身体发育被认为具有广泛的影响 为了孩子的幸福。 特别是有人假设 营养不良和认知能力之间有很强的联系， 发展，虽然性质如果关系不好 明白 为了评估是否有预测因素 积极的越轨行为更广泛地保护儿童 该项目的第二个组成部分将评估 那些似乎对儿童有保护作用的因素， 营养状况也可以预测他们的认知能力。 拟议的论文项目的主要目标是： 查明儿童、母亲、家庭和 与营养积极偏差相关的社区--即， 相对于其他弱势儿童的健康成长， 出生和年龄11;并确定与 弱势儿童的认知健康，并确定 这些保护因素与那些 与积极的偏差有关。

The candidate plans to develop a dissertaton project which will use a positive deviance fromework to identify factors associated with nutritional resiliency in a cohort of more than 2,200 Filipino children from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutritional Survey (CLHNS). The CLHNS cohort was first identified at birth in 1983-84, and the children were followed every tow (2) months for the first two years of life. Two additional rounds of data were collected in 1991 and 1994. Detailed information on characteristics of the children, mothers, households and communities was gathered in each round. The sample comprises households from both urban and rural areas around the city of Cebu in the Philippines, and includes children from a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds, although the majority are poor. Children's physical growth is believed to have broad implications for child well-being. In particular, it has been hypothesized that there is a strong link between malnutrition and cognitive development, although the nature if the relationship is not well understood. In order to access whether factors which predict positive deviance are more broadly protective of child well-being, a second component of this project will evaluate whether factors which appear to be protective for children's nutritional status also predict their cognitive performance. The main objectives of the proposed dissertation project are: to identify characteristics of children, mothers, households and communities associated with nutritional positive deviance--i.e., healthy growth relative to other disadvantaged children--between birth and age 11; and to identify factors associated with cognitive well-being among disadvantaged children, and determine the extent to which these protective factors overlap with those associated with positive deviance.