Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Review
. 2015 Aug 7;25(3):245-54.
doi: 10.18865/ed.25.3.245.

The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework

Carl V Hill  1 , Eliseo J Pérez-Stable  2 , Norman A Anderson  3 , Marie A Bernard  1
Affiliations
Review

The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework

Carl V Hill et al. Ethn Dis. .

Abstract

Objective: Development of a new framework for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to assess progress and opportunities toward stimulating and supporting rigorous research to address health disparities.

Design: Portfolio review of NIA's health disparities research portfolio to evaluate NIA's progress in addressing priority health disparities areas.

Results: The NIA Health Disparities Research Framework highlights important factors for health disparities research related to aging, provides an organizing structure for tracking progress, stimulates opportunities to better delineate causal pathways and broadens the scope for malleable targets for intervention, aiding in our efforts to address health disparities in the aging population.

Conclusions: The promise of health disparities research depends largely on scientific rigor that builds on past findings and aggressively pursues new approaches. The NIA Health Disparities Framework provides a landscape for stimulating interdisciplinary approaches, evaluating research productivity and identifying opportunities for innovative health disparities research related to aging.

Keywords: Aging; Health Disparities.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

Competing Interests: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Type of health disparities research by NIA Division
DAB, Division of Aging Biology; DBSR, Division of Behavioral and Social Research; DN, Division of Neuroscience; DGCG, Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Fundamental factors: Ethnicity, Gender, Age, Race, Disability Status, Identity
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Williams DR, Yan Yu, Jackson JS, Anderson NB. Racial differences in physical and mental health: socio-economic status, stress and discrimination. J Health Psychol. 1997;2(3):335-351. 10.1177/135910539700200305 - DOI - PubMed
    1. Kochanek KD, Murphy SL, Xu J, Arias E. Mortality in the United States, 2013. NCHS Data Brief. 2014;(178):1-8. - PubMed
    1. Murphy SL, Xu J, Kochanek KD. Deaths: final data for 2010. Natl Vital Stat Rep. 2013;61(4):1-117. - PubMed
    1. Sandefur G, Campbell ME, Eggerling-Boeck J. Racial and ethnic identification, official classifications, and health disparities. In: Anderson NB, Bulatao RA, Cohen B, eds. Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2004:25-52. - PubMed
    1. Diez Roux AV. Integrating social and biologic factors in health research: a systems view. Ann Epidemiol. 2007;17(7):569-574. 10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.03.001 - DOI - PubMed

Publication types

LinkOut - more resources