CORE--SOCIOCULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS

该核心的目标是支持中心调查人员扩展 与女性社会文化环境相关的提炼研究 在《妇女权利公约》活动的头几年开始的保健工作，并加强 中心调查人员研究不同人群妇女的能力 有文化能力的方式，包括发展。社区的一部分 研究伙伴关系。我们将使用两个过程来实现这些目标 目标：制定与社会/文化相关的方法和措施 促进中心调查人员和附属机构使用它们。这个 这一研究支持核心的具体目标包括以下几项努力 加强对性别、种族、 班级和健康，并将这些考虑纳入正在进行的工作， 尤其是： 1.加强中心调查人员和附属机构的选择能力 研究社会文化的适当措施和设计 妇女生活的方方面面与健康有关。2.数据自动化 常用措施的收集、转化和管理 中心调查人员和附属机构为收集数据提供便利 反映妇女生活的社会和文化背景；3.提供 就使用现有数据库和扩大 由中心调查人员和附属机构建立的数据库，以加强对 性别、种族、阶级和健康之间的关系；4.支助 调查人员修改测量和研究设计的方法以 增强项目对特殊项目的适当性和可接受性 5.人口，例如来自代表人数不足的族裔群体的妇女； 创建一个顾问小组，以支持中心调查人员和 在特定人群中开发研究的分支机构，例如 美洲土著人和老年妇女；6.提高调查人员对 和访问来自州、地区、城市和 支持的县：选定人群的健康趋势分析， 例如，非洲裔美国人、亚裔美国人/太平洋岛民、土著 美国妇女、贫穷妇女和老年妇女；以及确定 国家和选定的社区纳入由 中心调查人员和附属机构；7.与当地和 区域社区团体，促进在制定研究方案方面的合作 优先事项，从制定目标开始参与研究设计 通过对数据的解读和社区咨询的发展 指导研究项目发展的专家小组。

The goals of this core are to support Center investigators in extending the refining research related to sociocultural environments for women's health begun during the first years of CWHR activities and to enhance Center investigators' capacity to study diverse populations of women in culturally competent ways, including the development. of community partnerships for research. Two processes will be used to achieve these goals: developing socially/culturally relevant methods and measures and facilitating their use by Center investigators and affiliates. The specific aims of this research support core include several efforts to enhance understanding of the relationships between gender, ethnicity, class, and health and integrating these considerations into ongoing work, in particular: 1. Enhancing the capacity of Center investigators and affiliates to select appropriate measures and designs for studying social and cultural dimensions of women's lives as they relate to health. 2. Automating data collection, transformation, and management of measures commonly used by Center investigators and affiliates to facilitate collecting data that reflect social and cultural contexts of women's lives; 3. Providing consultation regarding use of existing databases and expansion of databases by Center Investigators and affiliates to enhance study of the relationships among gender, ethnicity, class and health; 4. Supporting investigators to modify approaches to measurement and research designs to enhance the appropriateness and acceptability of projects to special populations, such as women from underrepresented ethnic groups; 5. Creating a panel of consultants to support Center investigators and affiliates in developing research with specific populations, such as Native American and older women; 6. Increasing investigators' awareness of and access to population data bases from the state, region, city and county to support: analyses of health trends among selected populations, for example, African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Native American, poor, and elderly women; and identification of target areas of the state and selected communities for inclusion in studies conducted by the Center investigators and affiliates; 7. Networking with local and regional community groups to facilitate collaboration in setting research priorities, participation in study design from development of the aims through interpretation of the data and development of community advisory panels to guide the development of research projects.