SC Cooperative for Healthy Aging in Minority Populations

描述(由申请者提供)：该RCMAR的总体目标是超越识别和描述老年非裔美国人/高加索人与健康相关的差异，而是了解非裔美国人人口中的差异，并确定旨在解决这些健康问题的解决方案。(盖革，1996)。我们的主题是通过解决与提供者和提供者/患者互动相关的问题和干预措施，改善老年非裔美国人的医疗保健提供过程。RCMAR调查人员将专注于开发测量工具和测试测试干预措施所需的招募/保留方法。如果干预措施成功，RCMAR调查人员希望将干预措施推进到全州范围内实施。 通过其核心，南卡罗来纳州RCMAR将：(1)建立一个指导侧重于老年非裔美国人健康的研究职业的机制(见调查员发展核心)；(2)加强从事老年非裔美国人健康研究的劳动力的文化多样性(见调查员发展核心)；(3)在涉及老年人健康的社会、行为、经济、流行病学和/或生物医学干预研究中进行研究并部署战略，以招募和留住非裔美国人(见社区联络核心)；(4)促进创新战略，以支持少数群体健康和老龄化方面的持久研究事业，和/或鼓励招募知名研究人员进行少数群体健康和老龄化研究(见调查员发展核心)；(5)改进在不同人群中进行严格和可比较研究所需的研究方法和工具(见测量核心)；(6)增进科学知识，缩小健康差距(社区联络核心、通过试点研究发展调查员核心和衡量核心)；以及(7)向科学界和非科学界传播研究成果，通过最终改善老年非裔美国人的健康来解决健康差距问题(见行政、调查员发展和社区联络核心)。 RCMAR基础设施建设的长期目标是利用RCMAR研究结构开发干预措施，以改善南卡罗来纳州老年非裔美国人的健康和福祉，并减少该州非裔美国人遭受的健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The over arching goal of this RCMAR is to move beyond the identification and description of older African American/Caucasian health-related disparities to understanding the disparities within the African American population and identifying solutions designed to address these health issues. (Geiger, 1996). Our theme is to improve the process of health care delivery for older African Americans by addressing issues and interventions related to providers and provider/patient interactions. RCMAR investigators will focus on developing measurement tools and testing recruitment/retention approaches needed to test interventions. If the interventions are successful, RCMAR investigators hope to move the interventions forward to statewide implementation. Through its Cores, the South Carolina RCMAR will: (1) establish a mechanism for mentoring research careers focused on the health of older African Americans (see Investigator Development Core); (2) enhance cultural diversity of the workforce conducting research on the health of older African Americans (see Investigator Development Core); (3) conduct research on and deploy strategies for recruiting and retaining African Americans in social, behavioral, economic, epidemiologic, and/or biomedical interventional research dealing with the health of the elderly (see Community Liaison Core); (4) facilitate innovative strategies to support enduring research careers in minority health and aging, and/or encourage recruitment of established researchers to undertake research on minority health and aging (see Investigator Development Core); (5) improve the research methods and tools necessary to conduct rigorous and comparable research in diverse populations (see Measurement Core); (6) advance scientific knowledge leading to a decrease in health disparities (goal of Community Liaison Core, Investigator Development Core through Pilot Studies, and Measurement Core); and (7) disseminate research results to scientific and nonscientific communities addressing the resolution of health disparities through the ultimate improvement of the health of older African Americans (see Administrative, Investigator Development, and Community Liaison Cores). The long-range RCMAR infrastructure-building goals are to use the RCMAR research structure to develop interventions that will improve the health and well being of older African American populations in the State of South Carolina and reduce the health disparities suffered by African Americans in this state.