Center on Population Health and Aging

人口健康和老龄化中心(CPHA)将提供协同环境，支持 研究日益增长和多样化的老年人口所面临的挑战。CPHA的具体目标是：1)鼓励 关于老年人健康和福祉的创新合作研究；2)解决以下机会 发展跨学科研究，3)提供科学交流和研究人员发展机制，4) 提供经济高效的环境来支持CPHA研究人员。这些目标奠定了持续、但充满活力的 研究老年人口健康和福祉的跨学科方法--在这种方法中， 科学发挥着核心作用。CPHA致力于调查员的开发，这是 拟议的计划。 CPHA的标志性主题包括科学卓越的领域，尖端技术的新机会 研究，以及RFA中概述的关键主题领域。这些主题是：1)社会经济地位、种族之间的相互关系 与健康；2)慢性病和残疾的趋势和差异；3)老龄化的生物人口学方法 和健康；4)工作和家庭对健康和福祉的看法；5)生活安排和对弱者的照顾 老年人。 CPHA是宾夕法尼亚州立大学5个多学科研究中心合作的结果，人口 研究所、保健和政策研究中心、老年学中心、卫生保健和政策研究中心 发展与健康遗传学与人类发展与家庭研究中心 上下文。中心间的合作加强了CPHA执行其鼓励科学交叉培养的使命的能力 在传统的人口科学之间，以及在人口科学和诸如 行为遗传学、人类发育、护理、卫生政策、少数民族老龄化、老年学和生物行为健康。 合作对于建立与不同科学界的沟通渠道至关重要。中锋间 协作还提供了一种利用优秀基础设施资源的方法，使它们在试点中发挥作用 导致老龄化人口统计方面可持续规划发展的项目研究。

The Center on Population Health and Aging (CPHA) will provide a synergistic environment supporting research on the challenges of a growing and diverse older population. CPHA's specific aims are to: 1) encourage innovative collaborative research on the health and well-being of the older population; 2) address opportunities to develop interdisciplinary research, 3) provide mechanisms for scientific exchange and investigator development, and 4) provide a cost-effective setting to support CPHA researchers. These aims lay the basis for a sustained, yet dynamic interdisciplinary approach to research on the older population's health and well-being - one in which the population sciences play a central role. CPHA is committed to investigator development, an essential piece for the sustainability of the proposed program. CPHA's signature themes encompass areas of scientific excellence, new opportunities for cutting-edge research, and key topic areas outlined in the RFA. These themes are: 1) the interrelationships among SES, raceethnicity and health; 2) trends and differences in chronic disease and disability; 3) biodemographie approaches to aging and health; 4) work and family perspectives on health and well-being, and 5) living arrangements and care of the frail elderly. CPHA is the outcome of collaboration among 5 multidisciplinary research centers at Penn State, the Population Research Institute, the Center for Health Care and Policy Research, the Gerontology Center, the Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, and the Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts. Inter-center collaboration enhances CPHA's ability to carry out its mission of encouraging scientific crossfertilization among the traditional population sciences and between the population sciences and fields such as behavioral genetics, human development, nursing, health policy, minority aging, gerontology, and biobehavioral health. Collaboration is essential in establishing lines of communication to a diverse scientific community. Inter-center collaboration also provides a means to leverage outstanding infrastmcmral resources, bringing them to bear in pilot project research that leads to sustained programmatic development on the demography of aging.