Training in Gerontological Health Services Research

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案要求设立“老龄研究补充性培训奖”，以支持攻读老年学和长期护理专业的博士前学生获得卫生政策和管理博士学位。拟议的培训补助金将补充卫生保健研究和质量机构(AHRQ)现有的“卫生服务研究培训”补助金(T32，HS00029，PI：J.Weiner)。 利用已有16年历史的强大、富有成效的高铁培训计划的势头，这项新计划将有助于培养下一代老年学家，他们将寻求卫生服务的新知识，以应对为迅速增长的美国老年人口提供高质量、高成本效益的卫生保健的挑战。具体目标是： 1.帮助招募不同的、高素质的博士前学生到老年健康服务研究(GHSR)领域，特别是约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院健康政策和管理系(HPM)提供的HSR博士课程的老年学和长期护理轨道。 2.在两年的GHSR跨学科培训中支持初学者进入这一轨道，使他们做好准备，进行创造性和严谨的研究，以促进改善我们为老年人提供的保健系统的质量和成本效益。学生将在高铁应用于老年人口保健的科学理论和方法方面打下坚实的基础。他们将研究老龄化的流行病学、人口学和生物学，以及老年人经常经历的连续医疗保健。他们将参加定期研讨会、国家科学会议、临床实践和密集指导的研究经验。 3.增加获得HPM系HSR博士学位和学院老年学证书的毕业生人数，然后在GHSR从事富有成效的职业，从而提高护理质量、成本和结果。 这项计划将由12名核心教员和8名附属教员实施，他们在GHSR的教育和研究方面表现出杰出的持续承诺、专业知识和生产力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests a "Complementary Training Award for Research on Aging" to support pre-doctoral students enrolled in a Gerontology and Long-Term Care Track leading to a Ph.D. degree in Health Policy and Management. The proposed Training Grant will complement an existing "Training in Health Services Research" grant (T32, HS00029, PI: J. Weiner) from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Capitalizing on the momentum of a strong, productive, 16-year old HSR training program, this new initiative will help to prepare the next generation of gerontologists who will seek new knowledge of health services that will be needed to meet the challenges of providing high-quality, cost-effective health care for the burgeoning population of older Americans. The specific aims are: 1. To help recruit diverse, highly qualified pre-doctoral students to the field of gerontologic health services research (GHSR), specifically, to the Gerontology and Long-Term Care Track of the HSR doctoral curriculum offered by the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 2. To support matriculants into this Track throughout two years of interdisciplinary training in GHSR that prepares them to conduct creative and rigorous research designed to catalyze improvements in the quality and cost-effectiveness of our system of health care for older people. Students will acquire firm groundings in the scientific theory and methods of HSR as applied to the health care of older populations. They will study the epidemiology, demography, and biology of aging, as well as the continuum of health care that older people often experience. They will participate in regular seminars, national scientific meetings, clinical practicums, and intensely mentored research experiences. 3. To increase the number of graduates who earn the HPM Department's Ph.D. degree in HSR and the School's Certificate in Gerontology, then lead productive careers in GHSR that lead to improvements in the quality, costs and outcomes of care. This program will be conducted by 12 core and eight affiliated faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding sustained commitment, expertise, and productivity in education and research in GHSR.