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/德鲁中心健康改善少数民族老年人（CHIME）提出了一项研究和指导计划，最终将有助于减少健康差距为非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔老年人的培训和指导少数民族教师谁将通过对少数民族老年人进行研究来推进他们的职业生涯。 为了实现这一目标，UCLA/Drew CHIME有4个总体具体目标：1）通过当地社区内的参与性研究，发展改善少数民族老年人健康所需的研究基础设施; 2）促进有效，可靠和可推广的测量工具的开发，评估和传播，这些工具可用于跟踪健康结果或测量关键的社会，行为，3）建立在加州大学洛杉矶分校GIM/HSR和德鲁的招聘，保留和促进少数民族研究人员的长期跟踪记录，通过指导和支持他们的努力进行研究少数民族老年人的健康和参与社区合作，旨在改善健康; 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美洲老年人的人才库，他们是研究的参与者，也是在CHIME主持下进行的研究和其他资助研究结果的受益者。 为此，CHIME社区联络和测量核心将开发和评估新的和现有的方法，用于招募和保留老年非裔美国人和拉丁美洲人的研究。 CHIME建议通过在管理核心（AC），研究者发展核心（IDC），测量核心（MC），社区联络核心（CLC）和协调中心（CC）中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研究者的指导，MC将为试点研究者提供方法论支持和培训，CLC将教教师学员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.