The Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly

描述(由申请人提供)：加州大学洛杉矶分校/德鲁少数族裔长老健康改善中心(CHME)提出了一项研究和指导计划，该计划最终将通过培训和指导少数族裔教员来减少非裔美国人和拉丁裔长老的健康差距，这些少数族裔教员将通过对少数族裔长老进行研究来促进他们的职业生涯。为了实现这一目标，加州大学洛杉矶分校/德鲁大学联合项目有4个最主要的具体目标：1)通过当地社区内的参与性研究，发展改善少数族裔老年人健康所需的研究基础设施；2)促进开发、评估和传播有效、可靠和可推广的衡量工具，这些工具可用于跟踪健康结果或衡量少数族裔老年人健康和保健结果的关键社会、行为和经济预测因素；3)以加州大学洛杉矶分校GIM/HSR和Drew在招募、保留和促进少数群体研究人员方面的长期记录为基础，通过指导和支持他们的努力，对少数群体老年人的健康进行研究，并参与旨在改善健康的社区合作；4)扩大和稳定与社区的现有和新的伙伴关系，以扩大潜在的非裔美国人和拉丁裔长老的人才库，他们是研究的参与者，也是在CHINE赞助下进行的研究和其他资助研究的结果的受益者。为此，CHINE社区联络和测量核心将开发和评估新的和现有的招募和留住老年非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲人进行研究的方法。 CHINE建议通过在行政核心(AC)、调查员发展核心(IDC)、衡量核心(MC)、社区联络核心(CLC)和协调中心(CC)组织的结构化活动来实现这些目标。IDC的主要活动将围绕选择试点研究和组织试点调查人员的指导，MC将为试点调查人员提供方法学支持和培训，CLC将向教职员工指导如何进行参与性研究，并将与社区发展所需的合作，CC将承担为国家协调中心概述的所有任务。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): UCLA/Drew Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME) proposes a research and mentoring program that will ultimately contribute to the reduction in health disparities for African American and Latino Elders by training and mentorship of minority faculty who will advance their careers by conducting research on minority elders. To accomplish this goal, the UCLA/Drew CHIME has 4 overarching specific aims: 1) to develop the research infrastructure needed to improve the health of minority elders through participatory research within local communities; 2) to contribute to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of valid, reliable, and generalizeable measurement tools that can be used to track health outcomes or measure critical social, behavioral, and economic predictors of the health and the health-care outcomes of minority elders; 3) to build on UCLA GIM/HSR's and Drew's longstanding track record for the recruitment, retention, and promotion of minority researchers through mentorship and support of their efforts to conduct research on the health of minority elders and to participate in community collaborations designed to improve health; 4) to broaden and stabilize both existing and new partnerships with communities to expand the pool of potential African American and Latino elders who are participants in research and the beneficiaries of the findings from both the research conducted under the auspices of CHIME and other funded research. To this end, the CHIME Community Liaison and Measurement Cores will develop and evaluate new and existing methods for the recruitment and retention of older African American and Latinos in research. CHIME proposes to address these aims through structured activities that are organized in an Administration Core (AC), an Investigator Development Core (IDC), a Measurement Core (MC), a Community Liaison Core (CLC), and a Coordinating Center (CC). IDC's primary activities will revolve around selecting pilot studies and organizing the mentorship of pilot investigators, MC will provide methodologic support and training for the pilot investigators, CLC will teach the faculty mentees how to conduct participatory research and will develop the needed collaborations with communities, and CC will take on all of the tasks outlined for the national coordinating center.