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UCSF INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH & AGING ◊ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
Over the years, key research centers have been established by Institute faculty, which address a wide range of socioeconomic issues in the areas of women's health, healthy and active aging, disability, substance abuse, and medical economics. Four of these centers are highlighted on this page.
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| Anita Stewart |
Professor Anita Stewart is Director of the Center for Healthy and Active Aging, (website: http://sbs.ucsf.edu/iha/chaa.htm).
The Center aims to enable, support, and enhance the health, well-being, and independence of older persons in California through a program of applied gerontology research and community-level interventions that focuses on the critical importance of maintaining physical activity in late life.
Dr. Stewart has examined the effectiveness of an intervention to increase the physical activity levels of under-active older adults enrolled in a Medicare HMO (CHAMPS, see http://sbs.ucsf.edu/iha/champs), and conducted a project to establish this successful program in three community settings serving diverse segments of older adults including minority and low-income groups.
She has also explored how to diffuse physical activity promotion programs into community settings, including issues in improving infrastructure and resources for physical activity for diverse older adults.
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Evidence shows that lesbians interact with the health care system differently than heterosexual women, resulting in delays in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and heart disease.
The Lesbian Health Research Center (LHRC, website http://www.lesbianhealthinfo.org) is the first national research center specifically concerned with health issues of lesbians, bisexual women, transgendered individuals, their families, and health care providers.
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| Dorothy Pechman Rice |
Professor Wendy Max, Center Director, and Professor Dorothy Pechman Rice, Director Emerita, lead the Dorothy Pechman Rice Center for Health Economics (CHE).
Established in 1998, CHE (website: http://sbs.ucsf.edu/iha/dprice.htm) seeks to build upon and expand the impressive base of research being conducted at UCSF by Professor Rice and her colleagues, and to provide new opportunities for research, training, and public service.
Dr. Rice has achieved national and international renown based on her extensive research, scholarly publications, and leadership roles first in the Social Security Administration and then at the National Center for Health Statistics.
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| M. La Plante |
Headed by Professor Mitchell La Plante, the Disability Statistics Center (DSC, website: http://dsc.ucsf.edu) produces and disseminates policy-relevant statistical information on the demographics and status of people with disabilities in American society. The Center's work focuses on how that status is changing over time with regard to employment, access to technology, health care, community-based services, and other aspects of independent living and participation in society.
Dr. La Plante has achieved nationwide recognition as a preeminent researcher and scholar in the field of disability and is known as well for his methodological skills in survey research, which he has applied in his research on disability and health topics.
The Center receives funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
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Last revised: Apr. 2008
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