Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging

密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化中心

• 批准号: 7502219
• 负责人: JAMES SIDNEY JACKSON
• 金额: $ 66.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7502219
• 关键词: Michigan; Center; Urban; African; American

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to continue the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Conceptually, the research and training activities of the proposed center build upon a social and behavioral science model of health promotion and health behaviors that emphasize the intersection of structural statuses (especially socio- economic), gender, and race/ethnicity in influencing health outcomes. It is life-course oriented and assumes that statuses and conditions in older ages among ethnic and racial minorities begin at earlier periods of the life-course and are amenable to culturally sensitive and appropriate interventions. The model grows out of our research on productive roles among the elderly and focuses attention on elements of effective aging that are culturally relevant and efficacious in influencing positive health and functioning outcomes. The proposed MCUAAAR would be organized into three cores. The Administrative Core will provide administrative support, facilitate intellectual interchange, and provide overall coordination within the proposed Center, and with other university units and community based organizations. The Community Liaison Core will work with existing, and build new, community research and service relationships, provide sources of cooperating community respondents for the proposed pilot research and intervention efforts, and develop a new public policy outreach initiative. The Investigator Development Core will identify, select, and mentor multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural investigators interested in research and interventions on the health of minority elders. Although a separate measurement core is not proposed, investigators skilled in measurement and methodology will work within the Administrative Core to refine and hone the research interests of all the investigators, but especially young scholars conducting the pilot studies. This application builds upon the work and expertise of faculty and students in these two state institutions to empirically investigate African American health inequalities over the life-course. We have been fortunate in developing a knowledgeable group of research personnel and attracting to each university a large number of multi-ethnic core and affiliated faculty, many of them former MCUAAAR Scholars, and graduate students with interests in the study of aging and human development in black and other minority populations. The MCUAAAR will continue to support a multi- disciplinary and multi-ethnic team of established researchers and appropriately mentored early investigators. We are committed to building and maintaining research infra-structures for mentoring new minority researchers, enhancing the diversity of future social and behavioral science aging researchers, and improving current, and developing new, strategies for recruiting and retaining older minority participants in health related research among the growing diverse elderly populations.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学的密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心（MCUAAAR）的继续申请。从概念上讲，拟议中心的研究和培训活动建立在健康促进和健康行为的社会和行为科学模型之上，强调结构地位（特别是社会经济地位）、性别和种族/民族对健康结果的影响。它以生命历程为导向，并假定族裔和种族少数群体的老年地位和状况在生命历程的较早阶段就开始了，并且能够适应文化敏感和适当的干预。该模型源于我们对老年人生产角色的研究，并将注意力集中在与文化相关并有效影响积极健康和功能结果的有效老龄化因素上。拟议的MCUAAAR将被组织成三个核心。行政核心将提供行政支持，促进知识交流，并在拟议的中心内以及与其他大学单位和社区组织进行全面协调。社区联络中心将与现有的社区研究和服务关系合作，并建立新的社区研究和服务关系，为拟议的试点研究和干预工作提供合作社区受访者的来源，并制定新的公共政策外展倡议。研究者发展核心将识别、选择和指导对少数民族老年人健康研究和干预感兴趣的多学科、多文化的研究者。虽然没有提出单独的测量核心，但在测量和方法方面熟练的调查人员将在行政核心内工作，以完善和磨练所有调查人员的研究兴趣，特别是进行试点研究的年轻学者。该应用程序建立在这两个州立机构的教师和学生的工作和专业知识的基础上，以经验调查非裔美国人一生中的健康不平等。幸运的是，我们培养了一批知识渊博的研究人员，并为每所大学吸引了大量多民族的核心和附属教师，其中许多人是前mccuaaar学者，以及对黑人和其他少数民族人口老龄化和人类发展研究感兴趣的研究生。MCUAAAR将继续支持一个由成熟的研究人员和适当指导的早期研究人员组成的多学科和多民族团队。我们致力于建立和维护研究基础设施，以指导新的少数民族研究人员，增强未来社会和行为科学老龄研究人员的多样性，并改进当前和制定新的战略，以便在日益多样化的老年人口中招募和留住老年少数民族参与者参与健康相关研究。