Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research

深南少数民族老龄化研究资源中心

• 批准号: 7687674
• 负责人: Richard M. Allman
• 金额: $ 12.71万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7687674
• 关键词: Address; African American; Aging; Alabama; Attention; Bioethical Issues; Communities; Community Developments; Community Relations; Cultural Diversity; Deep South; Discrimination; Economics; Elderly; Funding; Health; Institution; Intervention Studies; Investments; Knowledge; Measures; Mental Health; Mentors; Minority; Numbers; Pilot Projects; Population Heterogeneity; Preventive; Process; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Peer Review; Research Personnel; Resolution; Resources; Rural; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Training; Trust; Universities; base; career; diet and exercise; health disparity; improved; innovation; medical schools; minority health; programs; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Deep South RCMAR will serve as research-based and mentoring investment in the process of closing the health disparities gap between African American and non-minority older adults. In addition, the Deep South RCMAR will increase the number of researchers with the capacity to conduct independent, peer-reviewed research related to minority aging and health disparities. The RCMAR will focus on health problems that are particularly prevalent among older African Americans, and will give special attention to issues related to rural elders; intervention research addressing exercise, diet, or preventive health strategies; and studies addressing socio-economic, discrimination, trust, and bioethical issues impacting both measures of both physical and mental health. The Deep South RCMAR will create research infrastructure for the following objectives: (1) establish a mechanism for mentoring research careers; (2) enhance cultural diversity of the professional workforce conducting research on the health of older persons; (3) conduct research on and disseminate strategies for recruiting and retaining African American older adults in research; (4) facilitate innovative strategies to support enduring research careers in minority health, and/or encourage the recruitment of established researchers to undertake research on minority aging health; (5) improve the research methods and tools necessary to conduct rigorous and comparable research on diverse populations; (6) advance scientific knowledge leading to a decrease in health disparities; and (7) disseminate to scientific and non-scientific communities research results addressing the resolution of health disparities through the improvement of minority health, particularly for older African Americans. The Deep South RCMAR will be composed of three interacting and collaborative cores (administration, investigator development, and community liaison) created by and built upon the unique strengths of four partnering institutions (Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University, University of Alabama, and University of Alabama at Birmingham). The cores will provide an infrastructure to provide training and mentoring programs, fund three pilot projects per year, and nurture community relations needed to meet the stated objectives. The Deep South RCMAR will ultimately become not only a regional, but also a national resource for expertise related to the mechanisms of health disparities between older African Americans and whites.

描述（由申请人提供）：Deep South RCMAR 将作为缩小非裔美国人和非少数族裔老年人之间健康差距的过程中的研究和指导投资。此外，Deep South RCMAR 将增加研究人员的数量，使其有能力开展与少数族裔老龄化和健康差异相关的独立、同行评审的研究。 RCMAR 将重点关注老年非裔美国人中特别普遍的健康问题，并将特别关注与农村老年人有关的问题；针对运动、饮食或预防性健康策略的干预研究；以及针对影响身心健康指标的社会经济、歧视、信任和生物伦理问题的研究。 Deep South RCMAR 将为以下目标创建研究基础设施：（1）建立研究职业指导机制； (2) 增强从事老年人健康研究的专业人员的文化多样性； (3) 研究并传播招募和留住非裔美国老年人参与研究的策略； (4) 促进创新战略，支持少数族裔健康领域持久的研究事业，和/或鼓励招募知名研究人员开展少数族裔老龄化健康研究； (5) 改进对不同人群进行严格和可比研究所需的研究方法和工具； (6) 提高科学知识，减少健康差距； (7) 向科学界和非科学界传播研究成果，通过改善少数族裔的健康，特别是老年非裔美国人的健康，解决健康差异问题。 Deep South RCMAR 将由三个互动和协作核心（管理、研究者发展和社区联络）组成，由四个合作机构（莫尔豪斯医学院、塔斯基吉大学、阿拉巴马大学和大学）创建并建立在其独特优势之上。阿拉巴马州伯明翰）。这些核心将提供基础设施来提供培训和指导计划，每年资助三个试点项目，并培养实现既定目标所需的社区关系。深南地区 RCMAR 最终不仅将成为一个区域性的，而且还将成为一个国家级的专业资源，提供与老年非裔美国人和白人之间的健康差异机制相关的专业知识。