Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份在密歇根大学和韦恩州立大学继续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，拟建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的基础上，该模型强调结构地位(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集。它以生命历程为导向，假定族裔和种族少数群体的老年地位和状况始于生命过程的早期阶段，并可接受对文化敏感和适当的干预。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因素上，这些因素与文化相关，在影响积极的健康和功能结果方面有效。拟议的MCUAAAR将分为三个核心。行政核心将提供行政支持，促进智力交流，并在拟建中心内以及与其他大学单位和社区组织之间提供全面协调。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受访者的来源，并制定一项新的公共政策外联倡议。调查员发展核心将确定、挑选和指导对少数族裔老年人健康研究和干预感兴趣的多学科和多文化调查员。虽然没有提出单独的测量核心，但精通测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。这项应用建立在这两个州立机构的教职员工和学生的工作和专业知识的基础上，以实证方式调查非裔美国人一生中的健康不平等。我们幸运地培养了一批知识渊博的研究人员，并为每所大学吸引了大量多族裔核心和附属教员，其中许多人曾是MCUAAAR学者，以及对黑人和其他少数民族人口的老龄化和人类发展研究感兴趣的研究生。MCUAAAR将继续支持一支由知名研究人员和适当指导的早期调查人员组成的多学科和多种族团队。我们致力于建立和维护研究基础设施，以指导新的少数族裔研究人员，增强未来社会和行为科学老龄化研究人员的多样性，并改进和开发新的战略，在日益多样化的老年人口中招募和留住与健康相关的老年少数群体参与者。

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.