The Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学洛杉矶分校/基民盟少数族裔老年人健康改善中心（CHIME）提议延续一项最初于2002年资助的研究和指导计划，该计划将通过培训少数族裔教师来减少少数族裔老年人的健康差距，这些少数族裔教师将通过开展涉及少数族裔老年人的研究来促进他们的职业发展。为了实现这一目标，CHIME有5个具体目标：1)通过制定、实施和评估旨在减轻健康差距的社区合作干预措施，发展改善少数民族老年人健康所需的研究基础设施；2)对现有数据集进行严格分析，以确定社区、卫生系统和个人层面的健康差异相关因素，为未来社区合作干预措施的设计提供信息，以减轻健康差异；3)促进测量工具的开发、评估和传播，这些工具可用于跟踪健康结果或测量少数民族老年人健康和保健结果的关键社会、行为和经济预测因素；4)延续中国医学研究所10年来在少数族裔研究人员学术进步方面的成功经验，指导和支持他们进行少数族裔长者健康方面的独立研究，并参与旨在改善健康的社区干预；5)扩大和稳定与社区的现有和新的伙伴关系，以扩大潜在的少数民族研究参与者的数量，并从CHIME和其他资助实体主持的研究中获益。CHIME将通过管理核心（AC）、研究者发展核心（IDC）、分析核心（AnC）、社区联络核心（CLC）和协调中心（CC）组织的活动来实现这些目标。AC和IDC将选择试点研究并组织试点研究人员的指导，CLC将教RCMAR学者如何进行社区合作研究，并发展所需的社区合作以招募参与者；非洲经委会将为RCMAR学者提供方法支持和培训；完成国家协调委员会的各项具体目标和任务。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): UCLA/CDU 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 research involving minority elders. To accomplish this goal, 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 partnered interventions designed to mitigate health disparities; 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 future community partnered interventions to mitigate health disparities; 3) to contribute to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of measurement tools that can be used to track health outcomes or measure critical social, behavioral, and economic predictors of the health and the health-care outcomes of minority elders; 4) to build on CHIME's 10 year track record for successful academic advancement of minority researchers through mentorship and support of their efforts to conduct independent research on the health of minority elders and to participate in community interventions designed to improve health; 5) to broaden and stabilize 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 entities. CHIME will address these aims through activities that are organized in an Administration Core (AC), an Investigator Development Core (IDC), an Analysis Core (AnC), a Community Liaison Core (CLC) and a Coordinating Center (CC). The AC and IDC will select pilot studies and organize the mentorship of pilot investigators, the CLC will teach RCMAR scholars how to conduct community partnered research, and develop the needed community collaborations to recruit participants; the AnC will provide methodological support and training for RCMAR scholars; and the CC will complete all specific aims and tasks outlined for the National CC.