Chicago Ctr. of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics

描述(由申请人提供)：通过应用创新的经济分析，健康促进工具可以被更有效地用于理解：(I)个人对这些工具的行为反应，以及(Ii)与这些工具相关的价值。我们建议在芝加哥大学开创性的经济学研究传统的基础上，通过与伊利诺伊大学公共卫生学院(UI SPH)和伊利诺伊州公共卫生部(IDPH)结构良好的合作伙伴关系，创建芝加哥健康促进经济学卓越中心来实现这一目标。我们的科学目标是：(1)开发和应用经济学方法，以促进对经济因素在健康行为中的作用的认识；(2)开发和应用经济学方法，以提高对健康促进倡议的价值的认识；(3)开发和应用经济学方法，以提高对跨种族、民族、社会经济和地理维度的健康差距--即其决定因素和消除差距的潜在战略--的认识。这些科学目标将通过在三个核心的背景下组织的一系列具体目标来实现：行政核心、经济核心和差异与邻里核心。行政核心将支持有效利用中心的资源进行研究和培训，与关键合作伙伴(特别是包括UI SPH和IDPH)进行外联，与社区成员建立联系，并传播中心的调查结果。经济学核心将支持该中心的主要科学重点，即：(I)开发和应用经济方法，以促进对经济因素在健康行为中的作用的了解；(Ii)开发和应用经济方法，以促进对健康促进倡议的价值的了解。差异和社区核心将支持我们的第三个科学目标，通过研究种族和社会经济地位的健康差异，特别强调它们与社区和社区因素的关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): By applying innovative economic analysis, health promotion tools can be used more effectively to understand: (i) individual behavioral responses to these tools, and (ii) the value associated with these tools. We propose to do this by creating a Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics, building on the University of Chicago's groundbreaking economics research tradition, and enriched by a well-structured partnership with the University of Illinois School of Public Health (UI SPH) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). Our Scientific Aims are: (1) To develop and apply economic methods to advance knowledge about the role of economic factors in health behaviors; (2) To develop and apply economic methods to advance knowledge about the value of health promotion initiatives; (3) To develop and apply economic methods to advance knowledge about health disparities-namely, their determinants and potential strategies to eliminate them-across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic dimensions. These scientific aims will be realized through a series of specific aims organized within the context of three cores: an administrative core, an economics core, and a disparities and neighborhoods core. The administrative core will support the effective use of Center resources for research and training, outreach to critical partners (especially including the UI SPH and IDPH), linkage with community constituents, and the dissemination of Center findings. The economics core will support the primary scientific focus of the Center, namely: (i) to develop and apply economic methods to advance knowledge about the role of economic factors in health behaviors; and (ii) to develop and apply economic methods to advance knowledge about the value of health promotion initiatives. The disparities and neighborhoods core will support our third Scientific Aim by studying health disparities by race and socioeconomic status, with a special emphasis on their relation to community and neighborhood factors.