Health Literacy and Health Disparities Among the Elderly

老年人的健康素养和健康差异

• 批准号: 8074348
• 负责人: Helen G Levy
• 金额: $ 10.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8074348
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This career development award proposes a program of training, data collection and research to advance knowledge in the area of health literacy and health disparities among the elderly. Specifically, the aims of this project are (1) to understand the relationship between measures health literacy and more general measures of cognition, such as memory and numeracy; (2) to estimate the relationship between health literacy, general cognition and health outcomes in a large and nationally-representative sample of older Americans; (3) to analyze the mechanisms through which health literacy and cognition affect health outcomes; (4) to analyze the role that health literacy plays in determining health disparities across racial, ethnic or socio-economic groups; (5) to explore similarities and differences between the concepts of health literacy and financial literacy, and compare the relationship between literacy and outcomes in both domains. The research activities will be carried out through a program of primary data collection and secondary data analysis based on the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The primary data collection consists of a module of questions on health literacy and health knowledge to be collected from a subset of respondents to the 2010 wave of the HRS. Analysis of the data will also be carried out with guidance from an interdisciplinary team of mentors. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This study examines how an individual's health literacy - that is, the ability to understand and process information related to health - affects his or her health. The study focuses on how health literacy in the elderly and near-elderly population is related to more general cognitive skills such as memory and the ability to do simple math problems. The study will provide information to help improve the health of older Americans.

描述（由申请人提供）：该职业发展奖提出了一项培训，数据收集和研究计划，以提高老年人健康素养和健康差异领域的知识。 具体而言，该项目的目的是（1）了解措施健康素养与更一般的认知度量（例如记忆和算术）之间的关系； （2）估计在大型且具有代表性的老年人样本中，健康素养，一般认知和健康结果之间的关系； （3）分析健康素养和认知影响健康结果的机制； （4）分析健康素养在确定种族，种族或社会经济群体之间的健康差异中所扮演的角色； （5）探索健康素养和金融素养概念之间的相似性和差异，并比较两个领域的识字与结果之间的关系。 研究活动将通过基于健康和退休研究（HRS）的主要数据收集和二级数据分析计划进行。 主要数据收集由有关健康素养和健康知识的问题组成，该模块是从2010年人力资源浪潮的一部分中收集的。数据分析还将在跨学科导师团队的指导下进行。 公共卫生相关性：本研究研究了一个人的健康素养（即了解与健康相关的信息的能力）如何影响他或她的健康。这项研究的重点是老年人和近乎老年人的健康素养如何与更通用的认知能力（例如记忆和简单数学问题的能力）有关。该研究将提供信息，以帮助改善老年人的健康。