New Faculty Recruitment for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging

描述(由申请人提供)：向国家老龄研究所提交的这份P30提案的总体目标是加强芝加哥大学的能力，研究老年人的社会背景--无论是个人社会经济和健康因素、家庭因素还是社区/社区因素--与医疗保健系统如何相互作用，为老年人带来健康结果。我们之所以选择这一重点，是因为我们相信，在这种关注这些互动的情况下，这些对美国来说是许多重要的问题，也因为我们的高级教师导师非常适合指导初级教师来解决这些问题。 为实现这一总体目标，我们提出了以下具体目标： 1.在卫生和社会研究中心内建立跨学科研究核心中心 科学(国际象棋)研究社会背景和医疗保健系统如何相互作用，影响老年人的医疗保健结果。 2.招聘四名助理教授级别的新教员，利用最初的工资支持和启动方案来实现这些招聘，并吸引特别强大的初级教员。 3.利用导师和种子基金资源，促进这些初级教员的专业发展。 与公共卫生相关：在接下来的几十年里，美国人口老龄化将给医疗保健系统带来挑战。其中许多挑战将受到与老年人有关的社会因素的强烈影响。拟议的项目将加强该大学关于老龄问题的跨学科研究的能力，该研究审查社会背景和保健系统如何相互作用以产生老年人的健康结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of this P30 proposal to the National Institute of Aging is to enhance the capability of the University of Chicago to perform research on how the social context of older persons - whether personal socioeconomic and health factors, family, or neighborhood/community factors - and the health care system interact to produce health outcomes for older persons. We have chosen this focus because we believe these are many important questions for the United States at this concern these interactions, and because our senior faculty mentors in aging are extremely well situated to mentor junior faculty to address these questions. To accomplish this overall aim, we propose the following specific aims: 1. To establish a Core Center for interdisciplinary research within the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) examining how social context and the health care system interact to affect health care outcomes for older persons. 2. To recruit four new faculty members at the assistant professor level, using initial salary support and startup packages both to enable these recruitments and to attract exceptionally strong junior faculty. 3. To use mentoring and seed grant resources to promote professional development of these junior faculty members. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Over the next decades, the aging of the U.S. population will present challenges for the health care system. Many of these challenges will be strongly influenced by social factors relevant to older persons. The proposed project will enhance the University's capacity for transdisciplinary research on aging that examines how social context and the health care system interact to produce health outcomes for older persons.