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)，专注于消除健康风险 针对少数族裔老年人。健康促进计划的主题是促进健康。 少数老年人通过改变饮食摄入量，锻炼， 以及其他健康做法。主题反映了一个重要的收藏 少数民族老年人中与慢性病相关的健康风险因素 成年人。中心内的所有研究项目都将健康行为视为 沿连续体的阶段术语，在该连续统中目标是移动 从一个阶段到下一个阶段的人。变老的主要工具 从一个阶段到下一个阶段的人包括关于风险的教育 因素(知识)，最大化自我效能和结果效能， 增加社会支持，并改变与 障碍和利益等行为。少数民族老年人的健康 促进中心-UIC的目标是：a)为开展 少数民族老年人健康促进研究，b)刺激和 支持新的、高质量的多学科健康促进研究 少数群体老年人，以及c)促进传播成功的 促进社区环境和健康的健康促进计划和产品 应用程序。 该中心由社区和学术咨询小组组成，核心 支持团体和研究设施。在头三年， MEHP中心将开展四个发展研究项目。它们是： 1.在老年中心促进少数民族老年人的锻炼 2.改善黑人老年人的运动和饮食行为 3.更年期对老年少数民族健康促进的影响 女人。 4.多族裔西班牙裔老年人的健康行为 总而言之，这四个项目代表了一项纲领性的研究 少数民族老年人健康行为的研究方法。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；共同的 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，将资助两篇论文 和多达四个额外的健康促进研究项目 少数族裔老年人。UIC的MEHP中心的传播效果 目标是教授衰老、健康和健康的学术和临床教师 少数群体健康，以及项目规划者和管理者监督 为老年人设计和提供健康计划。拟议的多边环境保护计划 中心将为有兴趣的研究人员提供机会 在老年少数民族人口中促进健康，以发展项目 与社区密切合作，这将降低健康风险 促进少数群体老年人的行为和健康。

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.