Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) position statement: Increasing funding for the NIH OBSSR to promote timely and effective behavioral medicine research.
Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) position statement: Increasing funding for the NIH OBSSR to promote timely and effective behavioral medicine research.
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行为医学协会 (SBM) 立场声明：增加对 NIH OBSSR 的资助，以促进及时有效的行为医学研究。
DOI：
10.1093/tbm/ibx022
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Sharpe,AngelaL
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作者：
Millstein,RachelA;Quintiliani,LisaM;Sharpe,AngelaL
慢性病是美国发病率和死亡率的主要原因。大多数慢性病都具有行为风险因素，可以改善健康和生活质量并减轻经济负担。测量方法和行为干预的改进正在迅速进展。这些变革需要足够的资金才能最大限度地提高有效性。美国国立卫生研究院 (NIH) 行为和社会科学研究办公室 (OBSSR) 帮助协调和支持行为和社会科学研究举措，这些举措旨在促进整个 NIH 的公共卫生并减少慢性病负担。 OBSSR 的预算在过去 5 年里没有增加。本政策文件的目标是提高对 2017-2021 财年 OBSSR 战略计划的三个优先领域的认识，并鼓励增加和持续为 OBSSR 提供资金以支持这些优先领域。优先领域 1 涉及提高行为和社会科学研究的质量和整合，这可以提高资助自然实验的速度。优先领域2鼓励使用和改进新技术，创建分析大行为数据的方法和基础设施，确保健康行为干预措施与新技术产生的大量数据保持同步。优先领域 3 支持科学数据与现实世界实践之间的转化研究，确保将研究成果交付给患者和人群。需要充足和持续的资源来解决这些优先领域。如果没有这些资源，健康结果的差异和治疗可预防慢性疾病的费用将继续扩大。行为医学协会 (SBM) 建议并支持增加 OBSSR 的预算。
Chronic diseases are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the USA. Most chronic diseases have behavioral risk factors that can improve health and quality of life and reduce financial burdens. Improved methods of measurement and behavioral interventions are rapidly progressing. These changes require sufficient funding to maximize effectiveness. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) helps to coordinate and support behavioral and social science research initiatives that are designed to promote public health and reduce chronic disease burden throughout the NIH. OBSSR’s budget has not increased for the past 5 years. The goals of this policy paper are to promote awareness of the OBSSR Strategic Plan FY 2017–2021’s three priority areas and encourage increased and sustained funding for OBSSR to support these priority areas. Priority area 1 involves improving the quality and integration of behavioral and social science research, which can increase speed of funding natural experiments. Priority area 2 encourages the use and improvement of new technology to create methods and infrastructures to analyze big behavioral data, ensuring that health behavior interventions keep pace with the substantial data generated from new technology. Priority area 3 supports translational research between scientific data and real-world practice, ensuring the delivery of research findings to patients and populations. Adequate and sustained resources are needed to address these priority areas. Without such resources, disparities in health outcomes and the costs of treating preventable chronic diseases will continue to grow. Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) recommends and supports an increase for OBSSR’s budget.