Workshop: Systems Analysis Approach to Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment

研讨会：不断变化的城市环境中健康与福祉的系统分析方法

• 批准号: 0800342
• 负责人: Dov Jaron
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Drexel University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-15 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0800342&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Systems; Analysis; Approach; Health

This award will partially support a workshop entitled "Towards a Systems Analysis Approach to Health and Well-being in the Changing Urban Environment." The aim of this workshop is to explore the requirements and determine an implementation plan for developing a systems model for health and wellbeing in the urban setting. Such a systems approach would build on the ongoing interests and projects of numerous scientific and engineering disciplines. It should reveal important issues regarding population health on which reliable scientific understanding is lacking and thus make an important contribution to setting the future global health research agenda. In addition to contributions to health research, this workshop would promote exchange of scientific and engineering information and enhance collaboration among scientists and engineers of varying disciplines. The intellectual merit of the workshop is grounded in that for the first time, scientists and engineers from many different disciplines will be brought together to explore ways in which the complex urban setting can be systematically and analytically studied, advancing new approaches and promoting new research methodologies that can lead to improved health and wellbeing in the changing urban environment. In addition to promoting exchange of scientific and engineering information and collaboration among different disciplines, it is expected that the broader impacts of this workshop will, in the long run, lead to new intellectual foundation and robust approaches among scientific disciplines that currently are either only peripherally involved in the health area or that are using only qualitative approaches. It is also expected that these disciplines will increase their participation in addressing health issues in the future.

该奖项将部分资助一个题为“在不断变化的城市环境中实现健康和福祉的系统分析方法”的研讨会。该讲习班的目的是探讨在城市环境中开发保健和福祉系统模式的要求并确定执行计划。这种系统方法将建立在众多科学和工程学科正在进行的兴趣和项目的基础上。它应该揭示缺乏可靠科学理解的有关人口健康的重要问题，从而为制定未来的全球卫生研究议程作出重要贡献。除了对卫生研究作出贡献外，这次研讨会还将促进科学和工程信息的交流，并加强不同学科的科学家和工程师之间的合作。研讨会的学术价值在于，来自许多不同学科的科学家和工程师将第一次聚集在一起，探索如何对复杂的城市环境进行系统和分析研究，提出新的方法和促进新的研究方法，从而在不断变化的城市环境中改善健康和福祉。除了促进科学和工程信息的交流以及不同学科之间的协作外，从长远来看，这一讲习班的更广泛影响将导致目前仅在卫生领域外围参与或仅使用定性方法的科学学科之间产生新的知识基础和强有力的方法。预计这些学科今后将更多地参与解决卫生问题。