Investigator Development

老年疾病构成了21世纪最紧迫的全球公共卫生问题之一。 当人们考虑到在未来几十年里解决老年人的护理问题时，就会更加具有挑战性 人口趋势、服务使用和提供模式以及卫生保健的培训和构成 劳动力。拟议的中心活动满足以下方面的需要：多层面和以社区为基础 研究、跨学科研究，以及增加对以下方面感兴趣和有能力的研究人员的供应 开展跨学科研究，旨在纠正健康差距。 这一核心的首要目标是： (1)促进开展与慢性病各阶段健康差距相关的研究 拉丁裔和非裔美国长老， (2)让调查人员作好准备，进行这类研究； 调查员开发核心将通过以下方式提高现有宾夕法尼亚大学中心和项目的生产率 (与社区联络核心协作)为招募老年少数群体创造新的机会 研究人员，通过增加以下方面的知识(与测量核心合作) 关于与差异有关的老龄化问题的调查人员，并通过加强征聘和培训 将不同的调查人员引入少数群体健康问题领域。这一核心的一个核心特征是招聘和 发展少数民族调查员，这一核心将通过提供全面的 开发计划，除了在研究中提供指导外，还解决了 环境、职业咨询和发展，以及成功所必需的特定技能的发展 作为一名调查员。 调查员开发核心的具体目标是： (1)增加了解少数族裔老年人健康差异的知识基础 确定和评估患者、医疗保健提供者、照顾者以及社会和环境因素，以及 在患者、提供者、组织和环境层面测试干预措施； (2)支持与健康差距研究有关的研究培训和多学科合作 年龄较大的少数群体；以及 (3)招募和培训关注老年人健康差距研究的少数群体调查员。

The disorders of late life constitute one of the most pressing global public health issues of the 21st Century. Addressing the care of older adults in the coming decades is all the more challenging when one considers demographic trends, patterns of service use and delivery, and the training and composition of the health care work force . The proposed Center activities address the need for: multidimensional and community-based research, interdisciplinary research, and, increasing the supply of investigators interested in and capable of carrying out interdisciplinary research designed to rectify health disparities . The overarching goals of this core are: (1) to facilitate the conduct of research relevant to health disparities across the stages of chronic illness in Latino and African American elders, (2) to prepare investigators to conduct such research,. The investigator development core will increase the productivity of existing Penn centers and programs by creating new opportunities (in collaboration with the community liaison core) for recruiting older minority persons for research, by increasing the knowledge (in collaboration with the measurement core) of investigators on aging-specific issues pertinent to disparities, and by enhancing the recruitment and training of diverse investigators to the field of minority health issues. A central feature of this core is recruitment and development of minority investigators, which the core will achieve by providing a comprehensive development program that addresses, in addition to mentoring in research, issues of the receptivity of the environment, career counseling and development, and development of specific skills necessary for success as an investigator. The specific aims of the investigator development core are to: (1) increase the knowledge base by which health disparities in minority older adults are understood by identifying and evaluating patient, health care provider, caregiver, and social and environmental factors, and testing interventions at the patient, provider, organizational, and environmental levels; (2) support research training and multidisciplinary collaborations relevant to research on health disparities in older minorities; and, (3) recruit and train minority investigators focused on health disparities research among older adults.