CORE--CONCEPTUALIZATION

概念化核心将建立一种批评和 进一步发展围绕着 预防和管理慢性病。通过参与 挑战想法和激发辩论的策略，调查人员将 生成一系列概念性主题并将其开发为框架 指导通过该中心进行的调查。批判性分析 这些框架将使我们能够确定哪些是富有成效的和 这种生产率显而易见的偶然性。结果来自 这项工作将是相关理论的发展和检验 适用于一定范围的慢性病的预防或管理 在不同的环境中的弱势群体。他们的具体施舍 核心是：L)促进概念化过程的精细化 通过学术活动；以及2)发展更清晰的识别 将慢性病概念化作为未来研究的指南。

The conceptualization core will establish a mechanism for critiquing and further developing the current state of knowledge surrounding the prevention and management of chronic illness. Through engaging in strategies to challenge ideas and stimulate debate, the investigators will generate a cadre of conceptual themes and develop these into frameworks to guide investigations conducted through the Center. Critical analysis of these frameworks will enable us to identify those that are productive and the contingencies under which this productivity is evident. Outcomes from this work will be the development and testing of theories related to prevention or management of chronic illness that are applicable to a range of vulnerable groups in varying environments. The specific alms of the core are: l) to foster elaboration of the process of conceptualization through scholarly activities; and 2) to develop more clearly identified conceptualizations of chronic illness as a guide for future research.