Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging

皇家衰老转化研究中心

• 批准号: 8121557
• 负责人: NICHOLAS A CHRISTAKIS
• 金额: $ 33.52万
• 依托单位: HARVARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8121557
• 关键词: Roybal; Center; Translational; Research; Aging

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our Roybal Center is focused on the recognition that complex social network structures play an important role in individual health. The two overarching goals of our work are (1) to ask significant questions about the role of social networks in producing specific outcomes related to health and well-being, and (2) to develop methods of answering such questions involving real social networks in which behavioral information relevant to health and well-being can be measured. Our Roybal Center will focus on the social network underpinnings of some of the most pressing problems facing the health and well-being of the elderly in the U.S. today, such as obesity and cancer, using a variety of novel methods applied to populations of diverse ages. Our Center will emphasize the use of internet data collection and the experimental manipulation of network properties; in addition, we also expect to continue to exploit our extant data, including our unique Framingham Heart Study Social Network. We will examine the impact of the topology and dynamic functioning of social networks. We will examine both inperson and online social networks for the effects of patterns of interpersonal network connections on health and well being, and we will study how health and well being are affected by the flow of phenomena across network ties. Our specific aims are to: (1) create a Center that contributes to the development of new methods for understanding social network effects on health in new areas, (2) fund pilot projects that examine how network topology, particularly in online social networks, affects health and well-being, (3) fund pilot projects that examine how the flow of health behaviors and states through network structures occurs in both "real life" social networks, such as the Framingham Heart Study Social Network, and in online networks, (4) help translate the findings of pilot projects into concrete recommendations for helping people improve health behaviors and well being, (5) help translate the findings of pilot projects and other social network research into policy recommendations for government and other stakeholders, (6) broadly promote and coordinate research with our separate social networks-focused Program Project on issues related to health and well being in the elderly.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的 Roybal 中心致力于认识到复杂的社交网络结构在个人健康中发挥着重要作用。我们工作的两个总体目标是（1）提出关于社交网络在产生与健康和福祉相关的具体结果中的作用的重要问题，以及（2）开发回答涉及真实社交网络的此类问题的方法，其中可以测量与健康和福祉相关的行为信息。我们的 Roybal 中心将重点关注当今美国老年人健康和福祉面临的一些最紧迫问题（例如肥胖和癌症）的社交网络基础，使用适用于不同年龄段人群的各种新颖方法。我们中心将强调使用互联网数据收集和网络属性的实验操作；此外，我们还期望继续利用我们现有的数据，包括我们独特的弗雷明汉心脏研究社交网络。我们将研究社交网络的拓扑和动态功能的影响。我们将研究面对面和在线社交网络，了解人际网络连接模式对健康和福祉的影响，并将研究健康和福祉如何受到网络关系现象流动的影响。我们的具体目标是：(1) 创建一个中心，致力于开发新方法来了解社交网络对新领域健康的影响，(2) 资助试点项目，研究网络拓扑（尤其是在线社交网络中的拓扑）如何影响健康健康和福祉，（3）资助试点项目，研究健康行为和状态通过网络结构的流动如何发生在“现实生活”社交网络（例如弗雷明汉心脏研究社交网络）和在线网络中，（ 4）帮助将试点项目的结果转化为具体建议帮助人们改善健康行为和福祉，(5) 帮助将试点项目和其他社交网络研究的结果转化为政府和其他利益相关者的政策建议，(6) 广泛促进和协调我们单独的以社交网络为重点的计划项目的研究与老年人的健康和福祉有关的问题。