Penn State Family Issues Symposium

说明(由申请者提供)：这项建议要求为宾夕法尼亚州立大学家庭问题研讨会再提供五年的支持，这是一个年度跨学科会议，旨在关注在理解家庭结构和功能及其对儿童和青年发展的影响方面重要的未被研究的问题。该提案建立在宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所(Booth And Landale)、人类发展和家庭研究部(Crouter-前身PI)和社会科学研究所(McHale)的教职员工共同组织的16年来的年度研讨会传统的基础上，并得到了许多其他部门和中心以及NICHD的额外智力和财政支持。这项建议的目标是：(1)促进跨学科对话，促进对家庭问题的研究。(二)推动学术过硬。(3)找出家庭研究领域有希望的问题，这些问题没有得到研究人员的足够重视，而且通常不会被专业协会、基金会或政府机构涵盖。 公共卫生相关性：研讨会提案的健康相关性是多方面的。所有主题都涉及与健康有关的部分，因为它们侧重于在某种程度上处于不利地位的个人。可能是收入不足、受教育机会少、生活在危险的家庭环境中或获得医疗保健的机会有限。劣势通常伴随着压力，在一段时间内，压力往往会导致免疫系统的损害，从而导致病理。每个专题讨论会都有一部分专门讨论可能改善病情从而改善健康的政策影响和干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests an additional five years of support for the Penn State Family Issues Symposium, an annual interdisciplinary conference designed to focus attention on under- studied issues that are important in terms of understanding family structure and functioning and their impact on the development of children and youth. The proposal builds on a sixteen-year tradition of annual symposia that have been co-organized by faculty from Penn State's Population Research Institute (Booth and Landale), Department of Human Development and Family Studies (Crouter - former PI), and Social Science Research Institute (McHale) with additional intellectual and financial support from numerous other departments and centers and NICHD. The goals of this proposal are: (1) To promote interdisciplinary dialogue and to stimulate research on family issues. (2)To promote scholarly excellence. (3) To identify promising issues in the field of family studies that are not receiving sufficient attention from researchers and which would not ordinarily be covered by professional societies, foundations, or government agencies. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The health relevance of the symposium proposal is multi-fold. All of the themes involve health relevant components in that they focus on individuals who are disadvantaged in some way. It may be inadequate income, low access to educational opportunities, living in risky family environments, or limited access to health care. Disadvantage is usually accompanied by stress which over a period of time often leads to compromising the immune system in ways that lead to pathology. A section of each symposium is devoted to policy implications and interventions that may ameliorate the condition and thereby lead to better health.