Center for Demography of Health and Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份继续支持威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校健康与老龄化人口中心的提案。健康与老龄化人口中心的总体目标是维持和改进健康与老龄化人口的主要研究和培训计划。人口与健康中心的体制结构旨在建立社会人口学与关于健康和老龄化的生物医学和流行病学研究之间的联系。CDHA正在进行和发展的研究活动的主要主题包括(1)晚年健康和福祉的早期和中期决定因素；(2)种族、民族和社会经济地位；(3)人口老龄化；(4)慢性病和残疾趋势以及疾病负担；(5)健康、工作和退休。在最初的十年里，CDHA的教职员工从39人增加到63人；成功地将试点项目转化为赠款；对NIA的支持从330万美元增加到7400万美元；创建了独特的数据资源和安全的数据飞地；并大大扩大了培训活动。CDHA与人口与生态中心共存，因此在管理、计算、印刷图书馆、数据图书馆和地理信息系统设施方面共享并扩展了一个发达的研究基础设施。CDHA的行政核心(A)将为该中心提供领导和行政支持。项目开发核心(B)将支持从事创新试点研究项目的教职员工和研究助理，这些项目可能会导致NIA的主要支持。外部创新网络核心(C)将继续为老龄化人口研究提供流行的、网络化的当前意识服务，并支持定期研讨会、会议和访问。外部研究资源核心(D)将支持以用户友好的方式提供健康和老龄化人口统计方面的大规模公共数据资源。统计数据飞地核心(E)将继续发展在安全条件下分析敏感数据的设施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for continuing support of the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The overall goal of the Center for Demography of Health and Aging is to sustain and improve a major research and training program in the demography of health and aging. The institutional architecture of CDHA is designed to create links between social demography and biomedical and epidemiological research on health and aging. Major themes of ongoing and developmental research activities within CDHA include (1) Early and Mid-Life Determinants of Late-Life Health and Well-Being; (2) Race, Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status; (3) Demography of Aging; (4) Trends in Chronic Disease and Disability, and Burden of Illness; and (5) Health, Work and Retirement. During its first decade, CDHA has grown from 39 to 63 faculty members; has successfully turned pilot projects into grants; has grown from about $3.3 million to $74 million in NIA support; has created unique data resources and a secure data enclave; and has substantially expanded training activities. CDHA coexists with the Center for Demography and Ecology and thus shares and extends a well-developed research infrastructure in administration, computing, print library, data library, and GIS facilities. CDHA's administrative core (A) will provide leadership and administrative support for the Center. The program development core (B) will support faculty, staff, and research assistants engaged in innovative pilot research projects that are likely to lead to major NIA support. The external innovative network core (C) will continue a popular, networked current awareness service for research in the demography of aging and support regular workshops, conferences, and visits. The external research resources core (D) will support user-friendly provision of large-scale public data resources in the demography of health and aging. The statistical data enclave core (E) will continue to develop facilities for the analysis of sensitive data under secure conditions. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The challenges of individual aging creates an unending stream of questions that biosocial research may address; population aging magnifies these issues as they affect social organization, health services, and macro-economic change. The Center for Demography of Health and Aging will help to address these challenges as an innovative and flexible provider of research collaboration, training, and infrastructure.