The Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly

项目摘要总体组件 加州大学洛杉矶分校少数民族老年人健康改善中心(CHME)建议继续一项研究和 2002年继续资助的指导计划，将有助于减少 通过培训少数族裔教员来培训少数族裔长老，他们将通过进行少数族裔老龄化来促进他们的事业 研究。我们建议继续我们的主题“制定、调整和评估干预措施，以 改善少数民族老年人的健康“，其中纳入了RFA-AG-23-026研究的两个要素 目标：一)确定和制定解决办法，以消除日益增长的健康差距和健康不平等现象 (二)改善老年人的健康和福祉。CHINE有6个具体目标： 1)发展改善少数族裔老年人健康所需的研究基础设施 制定、实施和评估社区和卫生系统干预措施，旨在 缩小健康差距，这包含了NIA的两个科学重点领域：识别和发展 解决方案，以消除日益增长的老年人口中的健康差距和健康不平等现象；以及 改善老年人的健康和福祉；2)对现有数据集进行严格分析，以 确定社会文化因素、卫生保健因素以及与健康相关的行为和生物水平 为设计干预措施或卫生政策以缩小健康差距提供信息；3)作出贡献 制定、评估和传播可用于跟踪健康结果或 衡量少数群体健康和保健的关键社会、行为和经济预测因素 长辈；4)在CHINE 20年来少数族裔教员成功学术进步的记录基础上再接再厉 通过指导和支持他们开展关于少数族裔老年人健康的独立研究；5) 扩大与社区现有的和新的伙伴关系，以扩大潜在的少数群体研究池 研究结果的参与者和受益者都是在 CHINE和其他资助的研究。6)继续我们长期和非常成功的伙伴关系，并 与HBCU下属的查尔斯·R·德鲁医科大学(CDU)合作，同时也在开发 与西班牙裔加州大学河滨分校(UCR)建立额外的伙伴关系和合作 服务机构(HSI)，专门培训西班牙裔学生和来自其他代表性不足的学生 组。CHINE将通过领导层组织的活动来实现这些目标 管理核心(LAC)、研究教育部分(REC)、分析核心(ANC)和 社区联络和招募核心(CLRC)。拉丁美洲和加勒比地区和区域经济共同体与外部 顾问组将选择先导研究并组织RCMAR科学家的指导和发展， CLRC将协助招募，非国大将为RCMAR提供高度创新的方法培训 科学家。

Project Summary Overall Component UCLA Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME) proposes continuation of a research and mentoring program continuously funded in 2002, that will contribute to the reduction in health disparities for minority elders by training minority faculty who will advance their careers by conducting minority aging research. We propose to continue our theme of “Developing, Adapting and Evaluating Interventions to Improve the Health of Minority Elders”, which incorporates elements of two of RFA-AG-23-026 research objectives: i) identify and develop solutions to eliminate health disparities and health inequities in the growing population of older adults, and ii) improve the health and well-being of older adults. CHIME has 6 specific aims: 1) to develop the research infrastructure needed to improve the health of minority elders through the development, implementation, and evaluation of community and health system interventions designed to mitigate health disparities which incorporates two of NIA's areas of scientific focus: identify and develop solutions to eliminate health disparities and health inequities in the growing population of older adults, and improve the health and well-being of older adults; 2) to conduct rigorous analyses of existing data sets to identify sociocultural factors, health care factors, and behavioral and biological level correlates of health disparities to inform the design of interventions or health policies to mitigate health disparities; 3) to contribute to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of measures that can be used to track health outcomes or measure critical social, behavioral, and economic predictors of the health and the health-care of minority elders; 4) to build on CHIME’s 20-year track record of successful academic advancement of minority faculty through mentorship and support of their conduct of independent research on the health of minority elders; 5) to broaden both existing and new partnerships with communities to expand the pool of potential minority research participants and the beneficiaries of the findings from both the research conducted under the auspices of CHIME and other funded research. 6) Continue our long-standing and highly successful partnership and collaboration with Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), a HBCU, while also developing an additional partnership and collaboration with the University of California at Riverside (UCR), a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) with expertise in training Hispanic students and those from other under-represented groups. CHIME will address these aims through activities that are organized in a Leadership and Administration Core (LAC), a Research Education Component (REC), an Analysis Core (AnC), and a Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC). The LAC and REC in collaboration with the External Advisory Group will select pilot studies and organize the mentorship and development of RCMAR Scientists, CLRC will assist with recruitment and AnC will provide highly innovative methodological training for RCMAR Scientists.