CORE--PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

CDEHA的方案开发核心侧重于开发试点（种子）赠款方案。该核心有以下具体目标：1）开发和培育有前途的新的小规模种子和补充项目相关的中心的主题领域;提供初级研究人员与他们的研究发展，获得不同的专业知识，并从高级教师指导咨询和援助;并支持同行评审的研究或职业发展奖的申请的准备和提交; 2）鼓励追求研究人口学和健康与老龄化经济学问题的职业生涯;和3）开发和增加研讨会和研讨会等培训机会，并作为人口学和健康与老龄化经济学重要问题创新多学科研究的协调中心。这些试点项目是人道主义法执行委员会过去和计划开展的活动的核心。这些项目是对斯坦福大学老龄化研究的高度杠杆投资，它们满足了大学和研究界更普遍的额外目标。他们促进了初级研究人员的职业生涯，他们激发了对老龄化和研究的兴趣，他们鼓励跨学科合作。种子项目计划的一个中心特点是初级（高级实习生或初级教师）调查员与高级教师导师的匹配，这种安排既促进了实质性研究，也促进了教师的发展。导师可从中心获得， 卫生政策/初级保健和成果研究中心、经济学、商业、法律、医学、卫生研究和政策、生物科学、心理学、社会学、莫里森人口研究所、斯坦福大学国际研究所和弗吉尼亚州卫生经济研究中心。我们建议初步资助四个新的试验/种子项目，首两年每年批出两个项目。第一和第二个项目将在更新的第一年启动，第三和第四个项目将在更新的第二年启动：首先，对几个年龄组的情感状态进行研究，以确定 情绪对健康选择的影响;第二，按少数民族分层的老年人高血压治疗和控制率变化的微观数据分析;第三，分析肥胖与雇主赞助的健康保险费用之间的关系;第四，对绒鸭的照顾，性别，在中国农村人口向城市迁移过程中文化传播与扩散作用的背景下，早期受资助者进行的种子研究在以下领域产生了深刻的见解：老年人口技术利用的种族和民族差异;影响老年人医疗保健决策的社会经济和心理因素;老年人常见医疗程序的成本效益;以及老年人医疗保健利用的趋势和决定因素，功能状态结果和中国的招赘婚姻模式。

The Program Development Core of CDEHA focuses on development of the pilot (seed) grant program. This Core has the following specific aims: 1) developing and nurturing promising new small-scale seed and supplement projects relevant to the Center's theme areas; providing junior investigators with advice and assistance with the development of their research, access to diverse expertise, and mentorship from a senior faculty member; and supporting the preparation and submission of applications for peer reviewed research or career development awards; 2)encouraging the pursuit of careers in the study of issues in demography and economics of health and aging; and 3) developing and augmenting training opportunities such as workshops and seminars and serving as a focal point for innovative multidisciplinary research on important questions in the demography and economics of health and aging. The pilot projects are at the core of CDEHA's past and planned activities. These projects are highly leveraged investments into aging research at Stanford, and they meet additional goals of the University and of the research community more generally. They boost the careers of junior investigators, they stimulate interest in aging , research, and they encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. A central feature of the seed project program is the matching of a junior (advanced trainee or junior faculty) investigator with a senior faculty mentor, an arrangement that advances both substantive research and faculty development. Mentors are available from the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, economics, business, law, medicine, health research and policy, biological sciences, psychology, sociology, the Morrison Institute for PopulationResearch Studies, the Stanford Institute for International Studies, and the VA Health Economics Research Center. We propose to support four new pilot/seed projects initially, with two projects awarded in each of the first two years. The first and second projects will be initiated in Year 1 of the renewal, and the third and fourth projects will be initiated in Year 2 of the renewal: First, a study of affective states across several age groups, to determine the effects of emotions on health choices; second, a micro data analysis of the variation in treatment and control rates of hypertension among the elderly, stratified by ethnic minority; third, an analysis that addresses the relationship between obesity and the costs of employer-sponsored health insurance; and fourth, an examination of eider care, gender, and son preference in the context of the role of cultural transmission and diffusion during the process of rural-urban migration in China. Seed research conducted by earlier grantees has led to insights in such areas as racial and ethnic disparities in technology utilization in aged populations; socioeconomic and psychological factors affecting health care decisions among the elderly; cost-effectiveness of medical procedures common in the aged; and trends in and determinants of health care utilization, functional status outcomes, and Chinese uxorilocal marriage patterns among the elderly.