Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging

密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化中心

• 批准号: 7339728
• 负责人: JAMES SIDNEY JACKSON
• 金额: $ 71.74万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7339728
• 关键词: Michigan; Center; Urban; African; American

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to continue the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. Conceptually, the research and training activities of the proposed center build upon a social and behavioral science model of health promotion and health behaviors that emphasize the intersection of structural statuses (especially socio- economic), gender, and race/ethnicity in influencing health outcomes. It is life-course oriented and assumes that statuses and conditions in older ages among ethnic and racial minorities begin at earlier periods of the life-course and are amenable to culturally sensitive and appropriate interventions. The model grows out of our research on productive roles among the elderly and focuses attention on elements of effective aging that are culturally relevant and efficacious in influencing positive health and functioning outcomes. The proposed MCUAAAR would be organized into three cores. The Administrative Core will provide administrative support, facilitate intellectual interchange, and provide overall coordination within the proposed Center, and with other university units and community based organizations. The Community Liaison Core will work with existing, and build new, community research and service relationships, provide sources of cooperating community respondents for the proposed pilot research and intervention efforts, and develop a new public policy outreach initiative. The Investigator Development Core will identify, select, and mentor multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural investigators interested in research and interventions on the health of minority elders. Although a separate measurement core is not proposed, investigators skilled in measurement and methodology will work within the Administrative Core to refine and hone the research interests of all the investigators, but especially young scholars conducting the pilot studies. This application builds upon the work and expertise of faculty and students in these two state institutions to empirically investigate African American health inequalities over the life-course. We have been fortunate in developing a knowledgeable group of research personnel and attracting to each university a large number of multi-ethnic core and affiliated faculty, many of them former MCUAAAR Scholars, and graduate students with interests in the study of aging and human development in black and other minority populations. The MCUAAAR will continue to support a multi- disciplinary and multi-ethnic team of established researchers and appropriately mentored early investigators. We are committed to building and maintaining research infra-structures for mentoring new minority researchers, enhancing the diversity of future social and behavioral science aging researchers, and improving current, and developing new, strategies for recruiting and retaining older minority participants in health related research among the growing diverse elderly populations.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份继续密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学的密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心（MCUAAAR）的申请。从概念上讲，拟议中心的研究和培训活动建立在健康促进和健康行为的社会和行为科学模型基础上，强调结构状态（特别是社会经济），性别和种族/民族在影响健康结果方面的交叉点。它面向生命过程，并假定少数民族和种族老年人的状况和条件开始于生命过程的早期阶段，可以采取文化敏感和适当的干预措施。该模型源于我们对老年人生产角色的研究，并将注意力集中在有效老龄化的要素上，这些要素在影响积极的健康和功能结果方面具有文化相关性和有效性。拟议的MCUAAAR将分为三个核心。行政核心将提供行政支持，促进知识交流，并在拟议的中心内提供整体协调，并与其他大学单位和社区组织。社区联络核心将与现有的社区研究和服务关系合作，并建立新的社区研究和服务关系，为拟议的试点研究和干预工作提供合作社区答卷人的来源，并制定新的公共政策外展倡议。研究者发展核心将确定，选择和指导对少数民族老年人健康研究和干预感兴趣的多学科和多文化研究人员。虽然没有提出一个单独的衡量核心，但擅长衡量和方法的调查人员将在行政核心内工作，以完善和磨练所有调查人员的研究兴趣，特别是进行试点研究的年轻学者。该应用程序建立在这两个国家机构的教师和学生的工作和专业知识的基础上，以实证研究非洲裔美国人在生命过程中的健康不平等。我们一直在发展研究人员的知识渊博的群体，并吸引了大量的多民族的核心和附属教师，其中许多人前MCUAAAR学者和研究生在老龄化和人类发展的研究兴趣，在黑人和其他少数民族人口的幸运。MCUAAAR将继续支持一个多学科和多种族的团队，包括已建立的研究人员和适当指导的早期研究人员。我们致力于建立和维护研究基础设施，指导新的少数民族研究人员，提高未来的社会和行为科学老龄化研究人员的多样性，并改善当前的，并制定新的，招募和留住老年少数民族参与者在健康相关的研究日益多样化的老年人口的战略。