Exploratory Center for Behavioral Epidemiology (RMI)

行为流行病学探索中心 (RMI)

• 批准号: 6864342
• 负责人: PAUL J GERTLER
• 金额: $ 52.13万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-29 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6864342
• 关键词: AIDS education /prevention; behavioral /social science; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; disease /disorder prevention /control; employment /unemployment; epidemiology; gender difference; health science research; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human migration; human subject; interdisciplinary collaboration; method development; model design /development; outcomes research; pregnancy; sexually transmitted diseases; social model; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is an intractable health problem that has defied over 20 years of concerted approaches from a wide range of disciplines. In fact, despite massive multisectoral attempts to prevent its spread, HIV incidence continues to increase around the globe. Youth (young people between the ages of 15 and 24), and particularly female youth, are at greatest risk for HIV acquisition. As sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in general, and HIV in particular, have become inextricably woven together and exacerbated by issues such as poverty, migration, labor market opportunities, and gender-based power disparities, it has become clear that any effective prevention program must address the underlying structural factors which shape individuals' vulnerability, most notably the economic circumstances that condition their risk-taking choices. What is needed is a truly interdisciplinary approach that integrates existing knowledge about youth HIV/AIDS risk behavior to generate new paradigms of risk behavior, and that will foster new approaches to the development and evaluation of effective interventions to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among youth. We propose to integrate theoretical, methodological and analytical aspects of the Economic Sciences, Population Sciences, and Behavioral Sciences to develop new pathways to discovery and intervention in youth vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, STIs, and unintended pregnancies. In particular, we aim to understand how structural factors such as poverty, gender-based power, labor market opportunities, and migration ultimately shape these outcomes. The ultimate goal of this work is to develop effective interventions for the prevention of HIV, STIs, and unintended pregnancies. We will develop this new discipline, called Behavioral Economic Epidemiology (BEE), through a three-year process of structured learning and critique of each others' disciplines, focused integration of theoretical models and methods, and validation and pilot-testing of tools and analytic methods. We will also explore strategies for expanding this new approach into a more formalized and enduring discipline by developing a sustainable market for its production and consumption.

描述（由申请人提供）： 人类免疫缺陷病毒/获得性免疫缺陷综合征（HIV/AIDS）是一个棘手的健康问题，在各种学科的20年以来，在20年的一致方法中均违反了。实际上，尽管大规模的跨部门试图阻止其传播，但艾滋病毒的发病率仍在全球范围内增加。青年（年轻人15至24岁的年轻人，尤其是女性青年，艾滋病毒获取的风险最大。由于性传播感染（ETI）尤其是HIV，因此已经变得密不可分地编织在一起，并受到诸如贫困，移民，劳动力市场机会和基于性别的权力差异之类的问题的加剧，这已经变得很明显，任何有效的预防计划都必须解决这种构成个人弱势群体的潜在结构因素，以应对经济状况，以应对自己的经济状况，以应对自己的经济状况，以应对自己的风险，以应对自己的风险选择。需要的是一种真正的跨学科方法，该方法将有关青年艾滋病毒/艾滋病风险行为的现有知识融为一体，以产生新的风险行为范式，这将促进开发和评估有效干预措施的新方法，以防止艾滋病毒/艾滋病在青年中的传播。 我们建议将经济科学，人口科学和行为科学的理论，方法论和分析方面融合，以开发新的途径，以探索青年脆弱性艾滋病毒/艾滋病，性传播感染和意外怀孕的新途径。特别是，我们旨在了解诸如贫困，基于性别的权力，劳动力市场机会和移民等结构性因素最终如何塑造这些结果。这项工作的最终目标是为预防艾滋病毒，性传播感染和意外怀孕而制定有效的干预措施。我们将通过三年的结构化学习和对彼此学科的批评，集中理论模型和方法的集成以及对工具和分析方法的验证和试验测试，从而开发这一新学科，称为行为经济流行病学（BEE）。我们还将通过为其生产和消费开发可持续的市场来探讨将这种新方法扩展到更正式和持久的纪律的策略。