The Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly

项目摘要总体组件 加州大学洛杉矶分校少数民族老年人健康改善中心(CHME)建议继续一项研究和 指导计划最初于2002年获得资助，将有助于缩小少数族裔的健康差距 通过培训少数族裔教员，他们将通过开展少数族裔老龄化研究来推进他们的职业生涯。 CHINE有5个具体目标：1)发展改善少数民族健康所需的研究基础设施 通过社区和卫生系统干预措施的制定、实施和评估为老年人 旨在缩小健康差距，它包含了NIA的两个科学重点领域：i)研究 旨在理解和修改组织或个人与积极和 晚年的负面健康后果和II)关于影响人口老龄化的因素的研究，以及 人口老龄化的后果；2)对现有数据集进行严格分析，以确定社区， 卫生系统和个人水平与健康差距的相关性，以指导干预措施或健康的设计 缩小健康差距的政策；3)促进发展、评估和传播 可用于跟踪健康结果或衡量关键的社会、行为和经济状况的指标 少数族裔老年人健康和保健的预测指标；4)以CHINE 15年来的记录为基础 通过指导和支持少数族裔教员的行为，成功地促进他们的学术进步 关于少数族裔老年人健康的独立研究；5)扩大现有的和新的伙伴关系 社区扩大潜在的少数群体研究参与者和研究结果的受益者 来自CHINE赞助的研究和其他资助的研究。钟声会 通过在行政核心(AC)、研究教育中组织的活动来实现这些目标 它包括三个组成部分(REC)、一个分析核心(ANC)和一个社区联络和招募核心(CLRC)。交流电 REC将与外部咨询小组合作，选择试点研究并组织指导 在RCMAR科学家中，CLRC将协助招聘，ANC将提供高度创新的方法 对RCMAR科学家的培训。

Project Summary Overall Component UCLA Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME) proposes continuation of a research and mentoring program initially funded in 2002, that will contribute to the reduction in health disparities for minority elders by training minority faculty who will advance their careers by conducting minority aging research. CHIME has 5 specific aims: 1) to develop the research infrastructure needed to improve the health of minority elders through the development, implementation, and evaluation of community and health sytem interventions designed to mitigate health disparities which incorporates two of NIA's areas of scientific focus: i) research aimed at understanding and modifying organizational or individual behaviors associated with positive and negative health outcomes in later life and ii) research on factors that affect population aging, as well as the consequences of population aging; 2) to conduct rigorous analyses of existing data sets to identify community, health system, and person level correlates of health disparities to inform the design of interventions or health policies to mitigate health disparities; 3) to contribute to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of measures that can be used to track health outcomes or measure critical social, behavioral, and economic predictors of the health and the health-care of minority elders; 4) to build on CHIME’s 15 year track record of successful academic advancement of minority faculty through mentorship and support of their conduct of independent research on the health of minority elders; 5) to broaden both existing and new partnerships with communities to expand the pool of potential minority research participants and the beneficiaries of the findings from both the research conducted under the auspices of CHIME and other funded research. CHIME will address these aims through activities that are organized in an Administration Core (AC), a Research Education Component (REC), an Analysis Core (AnC), and a Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC). The AC and REC in collaboration with the External Advisory Group will select pilot studies and organize the mentorship of RCMAR Scientists, CLRC will assist with recruitment and AnC will provide highly innovative methodological training for RCMAR Scientists.