PARC Pilot Research Grants Awarded
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Year 9 (7/1/02-6/30/03)
Trends in Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality
Principal Investigator(s): Elo, Irma
Aims:
Socioeconomic inequality in all cause and cause-specific mortality
by age and sex in the US by investigating whether these trends
have been similar among whites and African Americans and by
relating these findings to trends in the distribution of risk
factors, such as obesity and smoking.
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Health Status, Measurement and Intergenerational Caregiving
Principal Investigator(s): Jacobs, Jerry
Aims:
The effect of health status on the inter-generational patterns
of caregiving, with special attention to issues of measurement
and to the experiences of minorities.
Outcomes:
Planning RO1 Jacobs, Jerry A. and Kathleen Gerson: The Time
Divide: Work Family and Gender Inequality
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An Explanatory Analysis of Household Composition and Intergenerational
Exchange in Asian American Households
Principal Investigator(s): Kao, Grace
Aims:
Household size and composition among households with older
Asian Americans.
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Selection Processes and Ethnic/Socioeconomic Differences in
Mortality and Morbidity
Principal Investigator(s): Kohler, Iliana
Aims:
Health disparities in the older population by race, ethnicity,
and socioeconomic groups in the United States, and to consider
alternative explanations for the differential increase in the
mortality and morbidity trajectories observed among various
sub-groups within the population.
Outcomes:
NIA grant with Soldo (P.I.) "A Comparative Approach to
the SES Gradient: Aging and Selction"
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The Social Environment and Diabetes Control: A Case-Control
Study
Principal Investigator(s): Long, Judith
Aims:
Innovative clinical population-based study to determine the
effects of social environmental factors on diabetes control.
Outcomes:
Work continues in current year
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Exploring Methods to Incorporate Public-Use Data in Aging
Research Studies
Principal Investigator(s): Sochalski, Julie
Aims:
The role of race and other subject characteristics in the outcomes
of patients enrolled in CARE when compared to matched control
groups drawn from the 1994 National Long Term Care Survey.
Outcomes:
RO1 resubmission RO3-NR008888 submitted Manuscript is being
submitted to the Journal of the American Geriatric Society Submission
of abstract to the Gerontological Society of America Manuscript
being submitted to The Gerontologist Manuscript under preparation
on a critical review of the literature on end-of-life care and
minorities A grant application has been submitted to the Frank
Morgan Jones Fund
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