Racial and Ethnic Disparities Health Policy Model

描述（由申请人提供）：黄博士是一名普通内科医生，他寻求在流行病学，人口统计学和马尔可夫建模方法方面进一步培训的支持。 他的主要研究目标是了解导致医疗保健和结果中种族和民族差异的途径，包括与健康相关的生活质量和死亡率，并确定健康领域和具体干预措施，以最有效地消除这些差异。 博士黄先生在卫生服务研究方面训练有素，并于2009年取得博士学位。加州大学洛杉矶分校公共卫生学院 他坚定地致力于研究种族和民族差异，专注于慢性疾病及其结果。 从艾滋病毒等特定疾病的工作过渡到现在，黄博士致力于创建一个全面的多学科临床模型，以了解慢性疾病如何导致少数民族预期寿命降低。 为了获得这项研究的先进技能，他现在正在申请职业发展奖。 导师委员会经过精心挑选，以监督黄博士在流行病学，人口统计学和马尔可夫模型方面的培训。 该培训包括加州大学洛杉矶分校公共卫生和社会学系的课程以及人口统计学和马尔可夫建模的自我指导教程。 作为指导临床科学家发展奖的赞助商，马丁夏皮罗博士将监督他的教育目标，职业发展和他的研究计划的执行。 Eileen Rummins博士是社会学和老年学教授，拥有人口学学位，他也将密切监督拟议的研究计划。 该奖项将提供五年的监督经验，使黄博士能够发展他的潜力，成为一名独立的调查员和领导者，在卫生政策研究有关的种族和民族差异的照顾。 研究计划的总体目标是创建一个马尔可夫循环树模拟模型，该模型将提供一个广泛的种族和民族死亡率差异的临床模型（差异健康政策模型）。 使用这个模型，黄博士将确定那些疾病，最有助于非洲裔美国人，拉丁美洲人和亚洲人与白人相比，死亡率的差异。 差异健康政策模型还将使我们能够确定非洲裔美国人预期寿命较低的程度可以归因于更大的患病风险，而不是疾病一旦发展就有更高的死亡率。 最后，我们将使用该模型来预测选定的临床和政策干预对潜在寿命损失年数种族差异的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Dr. Wong is a general internist who seeks support for further training in Epidemiology, Demography and Markov modeling methods. His principal research goals are to understand the pathways contributing to the racial and ethnic disparities in health care and outcomes, including health-related quality of life and mortality, and to identify areas of health and specific interventions to most efficiently eliminate these disparities. Dr. Wong is well trained in Health Services research, having obtained a Ph.D. in this area from the UCLA School of Public Health. He is strongly committed to research in racial and ethnic disparities, focusing on chronic illnesses and their outcomes. Transitioning from work on specific diseases, such as HIV, Dr. Wong now pursues to create a comprehensive and multidisciplinary clinical model to understand how chronic diseases contribute to lower life expectancy among minorities. To obtain the advanced skills for this research, he is now applying for a career development award. The mentorship committee has been carefully selected to supervise Dr. Wong's training in Epidemiology, Demography and Markov modeling. This training includes coursework at UCLA in the School of Public Health and Sociology Department and self-directed tutorials in Demography and Markov modeling. As sponsor of the Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award, Dr. Martin Shapiro will oversee his educational goals, career development and execution of his research plan. Dr. Eileen Crimmins, who is a Professor of Sociology and Gerontology with a degree in Demography, will also closely supervise the proposed research plan. The award will provide five years of supervised experience enabling Dr. Wong to develop his potential to become an independent investigator and a leader in health policy research related to racial and ethnic disparities in care. The overall objective of the research plan is to create a Markov cycle tree simulation model that will provide a broad clinical model of racial and ethnic disparities in mortality (Disparities Health Policy Model). Using this model, Dr. Wong will identify those diseases that contribute most to the disparities in mortality among African Americans, Latinos, and Asians compared to Whites. The Disparities Health Policy Model will also allow us to determine the degree to which the lower life expectancy among African-Americans can be attributed to a greater risk of getting a disease as opposed to a higher death rate from the disease once it has developed. Finally, we will use the model to predict the impact of selected clinical and policy interventions on the racial disparity in years of potential life lost.