MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

应聘者计划开发一个学位论文项目，该项目将 使用正偏差框架来确定相关因素 在超过2200人的队列中具有营养弹性 来自宿务纵向健康中心的菲律宾儿童 营养调查(CLHNS)。CLHNS队列是第一个 在1983-84年出生时被确认，孩子们被跟踪 在生命的头两年，每两(2)个月。二 1991年和1994年又收集了几轮数据。 关于儿童、母亲、 每一轮都聚集了家庭和社区。这个 样本包括城市和农村地区的家庭 在菲律宾宿务市周围，包括儿童 来自广泛的社会经济背景，尽管 大多数人都是穷人。 儿童的身体发育被认为具有广泛的影响 为了孩子的幸福。特别是，它被假设为 营养不良和认知能力之间有很强的联系 发展，虽然性质如果关系不好 明白了。以获取预测因素是否 积极的越轨行为更能广泛地保护儿童 福祉，该项目的第二个组成部分将评估 似乎对儿童健康有保护作用的因素 营养状况也能预测他们的认知表现。 建议的学位论文项目的主要目标是： 确定儿童、母亲、家庭和 与营养不良相关的社区--即， 相对于其他弱势儿童的健康成长--介于 出生和11岁；并确定与以下因素相关的因素 弱势儿童的认知健康状况，并决定 这些保护因素与这些因素重叠的程度 与积极的越轨行为有关。

The candidate plans to develop a dissertaton project which will use a positive deviance fromework to identify factors associated with nutritional resiliency in a cohort of more than 2,200 Filipino children from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutritional Survey (CLHNS). The CLHNS cohort was first identified at birth in 1983-84, and the children were followed every tow (2) months for the first two years of life. Two additional rounds of data were collected in 1991 and 1994. Detailed information on characteristics of the children, mothers, households and communities was gathered in each round. The sample comprises households from both urban and rural areas around the city of Cebu in the Philippines, and includes children from a broad range of socioeconomic backgrounds, although the majority are poor. Children's physical growth is believed to have broad implications for child well-being. In particular, it has been hypothesized that there is a strong link between malnutrition and cognitive development, although the nature if the relationship is not well understood. In order to access whether factors which predict positive deviance are more broadly protective of child well-being, a second component of this project will evaluate whether factors which appear to be protective for children's nutritional status also predict their cognitive performance. The main objectives of the proposed dissertation project are: to identify characteristics of children, mothers, households and communities associated with nutritional positive deviance--i.e., healthy growth relative to other disadvantaged children--between birth and age 11; and to identify factors associated with cognitive well-being among disadvantaged children, and determine the extent to which these protective factors overlap with those associated with positive deviance.