The Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学洛杉矶分校/德鲁少数族裔老年人健康改善中心（CHIME）提出了一项研究和指导计划，通过培训和指导少数族裔教师，最终有助于减少非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔老年人的健康差距，这些教师将通过对少数族裔老年人的研究来促进他们的职业发展。为了实现这一目标，加州大学洛杉矶分校/德鲁CHIME有4个主要的具体目标：1)通过当地社区的参与式研究，开发改善少数民族老年人健康所需的研究基础设施；2)促进有效、可靠和可推广的测量工具的开发、评估和传播，这些工具可用于跟踪健康结果或测量少数民族老年人健康和卫生保健结果的关键社会、行为和经济预测因素；3)在加州大学洛杉矶分校GIM/HSR和德鲁的长期业绩基础上，通过指导和支持少数民族研究人员开展少数民族老年人健康研究，并参与旨在改善健康的社区合作，招募、保留和提升少数民族研究人员；4)扩大和稳定与社区的现有和新的合作伙伴关系，以扩大潜在的非裔美国人和拉丁裔老年人的群体，他们既是研究的参与者，也是CHIME和其他资助研究的结果的受益者。为此，CHIME社区联络和测量中心将开发和评估新的和现有的方法，以招募和保留年长的非洲裔美国人和拉丁美洲人参与研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): UCLA/Drew Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME) proposes a research and mentoring program that will ultimately contribute to the reduction in health disparities for African American and Latino Elders by training and mentorship of minority faculty who will advance their careers by conducting research on minority elders. To accomplish this goal, the UCLA/Drew CHIME has 4 overarching specific aims: 1) to develop the research infrastructure needed to improve the health of minority elders through participatory research within local communities; 2) to contribute to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of valid, reliable, and generalizeable measurement tools that can be used to track health outcomes or measure critical social, behavioral, and economic predictors of the health and the health-care outcomes of minority elders; 3) to build on UCLA GIM/HSR's and Drew's longstanding track record for the recruitment, retention, and promotion of minority researchers through mentorship and support of their efforts to conduct research on the health of minority elders and to participate in community collaborations designed to improve health; 4) to broaden and stabilize both existing and new partnerships with communities to expand the pool of potential African American and Latino elders who are participants in research and the beneficiaries of the findings from both the research conducted under the auspices of CHIME and other funded research. To this end, the CHIME Community Liaison and Measurement Cores will develop and evaluate new and existing methods for the recruitment and retention of older African American and Latinos in research. CHIME proposes to address these aims through structured activities that are organized in an Administration Core (AC), an Investigator Development Core (IDC), a Measurement Core (MC), a Community Liaison Core (CLC), and a Coordinating Center (CC). IDC's primary activities will revolve around selecting pilot studies and organizing the mentorship of pilot investigators, MC will provide methodologic support and training for the pilot investigators, CLC will teach the faculty mentees how to conduct participatory research and will develop the needed collaborations with communities, and CC will take on all of the tasks outlined for the national coordinating center.