COMMUNITY LIAISON CORE

社区联络核心旨在扩大目前以社区为基础的基础设施 与服务于拉丁裔和非洲老年人的社区组织建立相关且可信的伙伴关系 美国人和促进健康老龄化计划。未来五年，我们将扩大业务范围 社区与学术伙伴关系，包括为老年亚裔美国人服务的组织。随着日益增长的 由于我国人口的老龄化和种族多样性，将这些群体纳入健康研究的必要性是 承担更大的意义。缺乏足够的种族多样性和老年人代表性 研究的参与者尤其重要，因为这些群体最有可能经历更贫困的生活 健康和生活质量，并有可能从健康促进和医疗保健中获益匪浅 干预措施。许多关于健康结果和健康促进的文献可能不适用于 由于老年人和少数族裔长期以来一直对这些人口群体 在健康研究中代表性不足。作为研究这些人群的研究人员，这给我们留下了 消除老年少数群体健康差距的计划所依据的证据有限。 社区联络的核心目标是： 1. 深入研究非洲老年人招募和保留方法的有效性 美国人、亚洲人和拉丁美洲人参与由以下机构资助或附属的社会、行为和临床研究 中心； 2. 提高老年非裔美国人、亚洲人和拉丁裔参与者的招募和保留率 通过传播有关招募和培训有效性的信息，资助老龄化研究项目 通过教学课程和科学文献中的方法； 3. 通过正规学术机构为基于社区的参与性研究创建基础设施 与两个为少数族长者服务的社区组织建立伙伴关系；这将增强我们的能力 从社区角度了解健康差异的决定因素，并提高 少数族裔长者参与加州大学旧金山分校的研究； 4. 开发系统模型，利用生态、计划评估基于社区的干预措施 评估框架将确定减少健康差距的关键变革杠杆。

The Community Liaison core seeks to broaden the community-based infrastructure currently exemplified by relevant and credible partnerships with community organizations serving older Latinos and African Americans and promoting programs in healthy aging. During the next five years, we will expand our community-academic partnership to include organizations serving older Asian Americans. With the growing aging and ethnic diversity of our nation's population, the need to include these groups in health research is assuming greater significance. The lack of adequate representation of ethnically diverse and older participants in research is especially critical since these are the groups most likely to experience poorer health and quality of life and have the potential to benefit greatly from health promotion and health care interventions. Much of the literature on health outcomes and health promotion may not be applicable to these segments of the population because older persons and ethnic minorities have long been underrepresented in health research. As researchers working with these populations, this leaves us with limited evidence on which to base a program to eliminate health disparities in older minority groups. Community Liaison Core aims are to: 1. Advance research on the effectiveness of recruitment and retention methods among older African Americans, Asians and Latinos in social, behavioral and clinical research studies funded by or affiliated with the Center; 2. Enhance the recruitment and retention rates of older African American, Asian and Latino participants in funded research projects on aging by disseminating information on the effectiveness of recruitment and methods through didactic sessions and in the scientific literature; 3. Create an infrastructure for community based participatory research through a formalized academic partnership with two community organizations serving minority elders; this will enhance our ability to understand the determinants of health disparities from the community perspective and to increase participation of minority elders in research at UCSF; 4. Develop systematic models for evaluating community-based interventions using ecological, program evaluation frameworks that will identify key levers of change for reducing health disparities.