Penn State Family Issues Symposium

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求为宾夕法尼亚州立大学家庭问题研讨会提供额外五年的支持，这是一个年度跨学科会议，旨在关注未研究的问题，这些问题对于理解家庭结构和功能及其对儿童和青少年发展的影响至关重要。该提案建立在由宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所（Booth和Landale），人类发展和家庭研究系（Crutter-前PI）和社会科学研究所（McHale）的教师共同组织的年度研讨会的十六年传统基础上，并得到了许多其他部门和中心以及NICHD的额外智力和财政支持。该提案的目标是：（1）促进学科间对话，并促进对家庭问题的研究。(2)To促进学术卓越。(3)确定家庭研究领域中没有得到研究人员足够重视的有希望的问题，这些问题通常不会被专业协会，基金会或政府机构所涵盖。 公共卫生相关性：专题讨论会提案的卫生相关性是多方面的。所有这些主题都涉及与健康有关的内容，因为它们侧重于在某种程度上处于不利地位的个人。它可能是收入不足，受教育机会少，生活在危险的家庭环境中，或获得医疗保健的机会有限。不利通常伴随着压力，在一段时间内往往会导致免疫系统受损，导致病理学。每个专题讨论会都有一部分专门讨论可能改善这种状况从而改善健康状况的政策影响和干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests an additional five years of support for the Penn State Family Issues Symposium, an annual interdisciplinary conference designed to focus attention on under- studied issues that are important in terms of understanding family structure and functioning and their impact on the development of children and youth. The proposal builds on a sixteen-year tradition of annual symposia that have been co-organized by faculty from Penn State's Population Research Institute (Booth and Landale), Department of Human Development and Family Studies (Crouter - former PI), and Social Science Research Institute (McHale) with additional intellectual and financial support from numerous other departments and centers and NICHD. The goals of this proposal are: (1) To promote interdisciplinary dialogue and to stimulate research on family issues. (2)To promote scholarly excellence. (3) To identify promising issues in the field of family studies that are not receiving sufficient attention from researchers and which would not ordinarily be covered by professional societies, foundations, or government agencies. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The health relevance of the symposium proposal is multi-fold. All of the themes involve health relevant components in that they focus on individuals who are disadvantaged in some way. It may be inadequate income, low access to educational opportunities, living in risky family environments, or limited access to health care. Disadvantage is usually accompanied by stress which over a period of time often leads to compromising the immune system in ways that lead to pathology. A section of each symposium is devoted to policy implications and interventions that may ameliorate the condition and thereby lead to better health.