Center on Population Health and Aging

人口健康和老龄化中心(CPHA)将提供一个协同环境，支持对日益增长和多样化的老年人口的挑战进行研究。CPHA的具体目标是：1)鼓励关于老年人健康和福祉的创新合作研究；2)利用发展跨学科研究的机会；3)提供科学交流和研究人员发展的机制；4)提供一个成本效益高的环境来支持CPHA的研究人员。这些目标为研究老年人的健康和福祉奠定了持续、但充满活力的跨学科方法的基础--人口科学在其中发挥着核心作用。CPHA致力于调查员的开发，这是拟议计划的可持续性的关键部分。 CPHA的标志性主题包括科学卓越领域、尖端研究的新机会以及RFA中概述的关键主题领域。这些主题是：1)社会经济地位、种族-族裔和健康之间的相互关系；2)慢性病和残疾的趋势和差异；3)老龄化和健康的生物人口学方法；4)关于健康和福祉的工作和家庭观点；5)生活安排和照顾弱者。 老年人。 CPHA是宾夕法尼亚州立大学5个多学科研究中心、人口研究所、保健和政策研究中心、老年学中心、发育和健康遗传学中心以及人类发展和家庭研究中心在不同背景下合作的结果。中心间的合作加强了CPHA执行其鼓励科学交叉培养的使命的能力 在传统人口科学之间，以及人口科学与行为遗传学、人类发育、护理、卫生政策、少数民族老龄化、老年学和生物行为健康等领域之间。合作对于建立与不同科学界的沟通渠道至关重要。中心间协作还提供了一种利用优秀基础设施资源的手段，使这些资源在试点项目研究中发挥作用，从而在人口老龄化问题上实现可持续的方案发展。

The Center on Population Health and Aging (CPHA) will provide a synergistic environment supporting research on the challenges of a growing and diverse older population. CPHA's specific aims are to: 1) encourage innovative collaborative research on the health and well-being of the older population; 2) address opportunities to develop interdisciplinary research, 3) provide mechanisms for scientific exchange and investigator development, and 4) provide a cost-effective setting to support CPHA researchers. These aims lay the basis for a sustained, yet dynamic interdisciplinary approach to research on the older population's health and well-being - one in which the population sciences play a central role. CPHA is committed to investigator development, an essential piece for the sustainability of the proposed program. CPHA's signature themes encompass areas of scientific excellence, new opportunities for cutting-edge research, and key topic areas outlined in the RFA. These themes are: 1) the interrelationships among SES, race-ethnicity and health; 2) trends and differences in chronic disease and disability; 3) biodemographie approaches to aging and health; 4) work and family perspectives on health and well-being, and 5) living arrangements and care of the frail elderly. CPHA is the outcome of collaboration among 5 multidisciplinary research centers at Penn State, the Population Research Institute, the Center for Health Care and Policy Research, the Gerontology Center, the Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, and the Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts. Inter-center collaboration enhances CPHA's ability to carry out its mission of encouraging scientific crossfertilization among the traditional population sciences and between the population sciences and fields such as behavioral genetics, human development, nursing, health policy, minority aging, gerontology, and biobehavioral health. Collaboration is essential in establishing lines of communication to a diverse scientific community. Inter-center collaboration also provides a means to leverage outstanding infrastmcmral resources, bringing them to bear in pilot project research that leads to sustained programmatic development on the demography of aging.