MINORITY ELDERLY HEALTH PROMOTION CENTER

伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校建立了一个少数族裔老年人 健康促进中心（MEHPC），专注于降低健康风险 为少数老年人。MEHPC的主题是健康促进， 少数老年人通过改变饮食摄入量，锻炼， 和其他健康实践。 主题反映了一个重要的收藏 与少数老年人慢性病相关的健康危险因素 成年人了该中心的所有研究项目都将健康行为视为 沿着一个连续体的阶段术语，其中目标是移动一个 人从一个阶段到下一个阶段。移动老年人的主要工具 从一个阶段到下一个阶段， 因素（知识），最大限度地提高自我效能和结果效能， 增加社会支持，并改变与 行为，如障碍和利益。少数民族老年人健康 促进中心-UIC旨在：a）提供资源， 关于促进少数群体老年人健康的研究，B）促进和 支持新的高质量多学科健康促进研究， 少数老年人，和c）促进传播成功的 健康促进计划和产品，以社区环境和健康 应用程序。 该中心由社区和学术咨询小组组成， 支持团体和研究机构。在最初的三年里， MEHP中心将开展四个发展研究项目。它们是： 1.老年中心少数民族老年人的运动促进 2.改善黑人老年人的运动和饮食行为 3.更年期对少数民族老年人的影响及健康促进 妇女 4.多种族西班牙裔老年人的健康行为 综合起来，这四个项目代表了一个纲领性的研究 少数老年人健康行为的方法。这四个项目 具有独特和共同的特点，包括：强调 有意义的社区网站;共享的理论观点;共同 研究问题，共享方法和测量资源。 新的研究项目将通过一个 竞争性资助计划，将奖励两篇论文的资金 以及多达四个额外的健康促进研究项目， 少数老年人。UIC MEHP中心的传播效果 目标是教授衰老、健康和 少数民族健康，以及监督少数民族健康的计划规划者和管理者， 为老年人设计和提供健康计划。建议的MEHP 中心将为有兴趣的研究人员提供机会， 在少数民族老年人口中开展健康促进活动， 与社区密切合作，减少健康风险 行为和促进少数老年人的健康。

The University of Illinois at Chicago has established a Minority Elderly Health Promotion Center (MEHPC) that focuses on ameriolating health risks for minority older adults. The theme of the MEHPC is health promotion of minority older adults through modification of dietary intake, exercise, and other health practices. The theme reflects an important collection of health risk factors associated with chronic disease in minority older adults. All research projects within the Center view health behaviors in terms of stages along a continuum in which the objective is to move a person from one stage to the next. The primary tools to move older persons from one stage to the next include education about the risk factors (knowledge), maximizing self-efficacy and outcome efficacy, increasing social support, and changing perceptions associated with the behaviors such as barriers and benefits. The Minority Elderly Health Promotion Center-UIC aims to: a) provide resources for conducting research on health promotion in minority older adults, b) stimulate and support new, high-quality multidisciplinary health promotion research on minority older adults, and c) facilitate dissemination of successful health promotion programs and products to community settings and wellness programs for application. The Center is comprised of community and academic advisory groups, core support groups, and research facility. During the first three years, the MEHP Center will conduct four developmental research projects. The are: 1. Exercise Promotion of Minority Elderly in Senior Center 2. Improving Exercise and Dietary Behaviors in Black Elders 3. Effects of Menopause and Health Promotion in Older Minority Women. 4. Health Behaviors of Multiethnic Hispanic Elderly Taken together, the four projects represent a programmatic research approach to health behaviors in minority older adults. The four projects have been unique and shared characteristics including: an emphasis on meaningful community sites; shared theoretical perspectives; common research questions and, shared methodological and measurement resources. New research projects will be incorporated into the center through a competitive grant program which will award funding of two dissertations and up to four additional research projects in health promotion of minority older adults. Dissemination effects for the MEHP Center at UIC target academic and clinical faculty who teach aging, wellness and minority health, and program planners and administrators who oversee the design and delivery of wellness programs to seniors. The proposed MEHP Center will provide the opportunity for researchers with an interest in health promotion in older minority populations to develop projects in close collaboration with the community, that will reduce health risk behaviors and promote the health of minority older adults.