CORE--PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

CDEHA的项目开发核心侧重于试点（种子）资助项目的开发。该核心有以下具体目标：1)开发和培育与中心主题领域相关的有前途的新的小规模种子和补充项目；为初级研究人员的研究发展提供建议和帮助，获得不同的专业知识，并从高级教师那里获得指导；支持准备和提交同行评审研究或职业发展奖项的申请；(2)鼓励从事健康和老龄化问题的人口统计学和经济学研究；3)发展和增加培训机会，如讲习班和研讨会，并作为在健康和老龄化的人口和经济学的重要问题的创新多学科研究的焦点。试点项目是CDEHA过去和计划中的活动的核心。这些项目是斯坦福大学对老龄化研究的高杠杆投资，它们更广泛地满足了斯坦福大学和研究界的其他目标。它们促进了初级研究人员的职业发展，激发了人们对老龄化研究的兴趣，并鼓励了跨学科的合作。种子项目计划的一个核心特点是将初级（高级培训生或初级教员）研究者与高级教员导师配对，这种安排既促进了实质性研究，也促进了教员的发展。可以从中心获得导师

The Program Development Core of CDEHA focuses on development of the pilot (seed) grant program. This Core has the following specific aims: 1) developing and nurturing promising new small-scale seed and supplement projects relevant to the Center's theme areas; providing junior investigators with advice and assistance with the development of their research, access to diverse expertise, and mentorship from a senior faculty member; and supporting the preparation and submission of applications for peer reviewed research or career development awards; 2)encouraging the pursuit of careers in the study of issues in demography and economics of health and aging; and 3) developing and augmenting training opportunities such as workshops and seminars and serving as a focal point for innovative multidisciplinary research on important questions in the demography and economics of health and aging. The pilot projects are at the core of CDEHA's past and planned activities. These projects are highly leveraged investments into aging research at Stanford, and they meet additional goals of the University and of the research community more generally. They boost the careers of junior investigators, they stimulate interest in aging , research, and they encourage interdisciplinary collaboration. A central feature of the seed project program is the matching of a junior (advanced trainee or junior faculty) investigator with a senior faculty mentor, an arrangement that advances both substantive research and faculty development. Mentors are available from the Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, economics, business, law, medicine, health research and policy, biological sciences, psychology, sociology, the Morrison Institute for PopulationResearch Studies, the Stanford Institute for International Studies, and the VA Health Economics Research Center. We propose to support four new pilot/seed projects initially, with two projects awarded in each of the first two years. The first and second projects will be initiated in Year 1 of the renewal, and the third and fourth projects will be initiated in Year 2 of the renewal: First, a study of affective states across several age groups, to determine the effects of emotions on health choices; second, a micro data analysis of the variation in treatment and control rates of hypertension among the elderly, stratified by ethnic minority; third, an analysis that addresses the relationship between obesity and the costs of employer-sponsored health insurance; and fourth, an examination of eider care, gender, and son preference in the context of the role of cultural transmission and diffusion during the process of rural-urban migration in China. Seed research conducted by earlier grantees has led to insights in such areas as racial and ethnic disparities in technology utilization in aged populations; socioeconomic and psychological factors affecting health care decisions among the elderly; cost-effectiveness of medical procedures common in the aged; and trends in and determinants of health care utilization, functional status outcomes, and Chinese uxorilocal marriage patterns among the elderly.