Health Care Improvement for Aging Women

改善老年妇女的医疗保健

• 批准号: 7232572
• 负责人: ANDREA Z. LACROIX
• 金额: $ 5.62万
• 依托单位: KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-01 至 2012-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7232572
• 关键词: Aging; Healthcare; Woman

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): By the year 2040, the number of women ages 65 and older in the US will approximately double from 20.4 to 40.8 million. Although women live longer than men, at every age over 65 women's disabled life expectancy is doubled that of men and their institutionalized life expectancy is 3-4 fold longer than older men. Medicare expenditures are 7-23% higher and nursing home expenditures are 60-100% higher for older women than men. The purpose of this training program application is to prepare postdoctoral public health scientists, primarily epidemiologists, health services researchers, behavioral scientists, and academic clinicians, to produce the evidence that will guide optimum, efficient, and cost-effective healthcare practices for older women in the future. The program will be housed in the Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative (CHS/GHC), a nationally recognized leader in health care innovation. The program and its faculty are closely linked with the Departments of Epidemiology and Health Services at the University of Washington. Trainees will thus have access to the broad range of resources available at both institutions, including an invigorated scientific community, formal/informal coursework, and degree granting programs. We propose to build the training program up to 3 postdoctoral positions in the initial funding period. Women's health faculty at CHS have a rich program of research focused in areas critically important to improving healthcare for aging women including: 1) screening and preventive services; 2) bone health; 3) urinary health; 4) the menopausal transition; 5) chronic disease prevention and management; and 6) frailty and disability. Twenty-three faculty preceptors will participate. The training program has 8 primary learning objectives: 1) Develop skills in defining research questions and appropriate study designs; 2) Acquire basic knowledge in the 6 aforementioned research focus areas in women's health; 3) Acquire in-depth expertise in one or more research domains relevant to healthcare improvement for aging women; 4) Complete training in protection of human subjects; 5) Gain experience implementing research protocols; 6) Improve skills in making scientific presentations; 7) Improve skills in scientific writing and publishing; 8) Develop skills in grant writing. Over the long term, this training program aims to build a critical mass of outstanding public health scientists prepared to have major impacts on health care delivery for aging women.

描述（由申请人提供）：到2040年，美国65岁及以上的妇女人数将从20.4万增加到4080万。尽管女性的寿命比男性更长，但在65岁以上的女性残疾人期预期寿命中，男性及其制度化的预期寿命比老年男性长3-4倍。医疗保险支出高7-23％，老年女性的疗养院支出比男性高60-100％。该培训计划应用程序的目的是准备博士后公共卫生科学家，主要是流行病学家，卫生服务研究人员，行为科学家和学术临床医生，以产生证据，以指导未来老年妇女的最佳，高效和具有成本效益的医疗保健实践。该计划将安置在卫生合作社（CHS/GHC）的卫生研究中心，这是全国公认的医疗保健创新领导者。该计划及其教职员工与华盛顿大学的流行病学和卫生服务系紧密相关。因此，学员将可以访问两个机构可用的广泛资源，包括活泼的科学界，正式/非正式课程和学位授予计划。我们建议在最初的资金期间建立最多3个博士后职位的培训计划。 CHS的妇女卫生学院的研究计划丰富，重点是对于改善老龄化妇女的医疗保健至关重要的领域，包括：1）筛查和预防服务； 2）骨骼健康； 3）泌尿健康； 4）更年期过渡； 5）慢性疾病预防和管理； 6）脆弱和残疾。二十三个教职员工将参加。培训计划有8个主要学习目标：1）在定义研究问题和适当的研究设计方面发展技能； 2）在上述6个研究重点领域的妇女健康中获得基础知识； 3）在与老年妇女的医疗保健相关的一个或多个研究领域中获得深入的专业知识； 4）完成保护人类受试者的培训； 5）获得实施研究方案的经验； 6）提高进行科学演讲的技能； 7）提高科学写作和出版方面的技能； 8）发展赠款写作技巧。从长远来看，该培训计划旨在建立大量杰出的公共卫生科学家，准备对衰老妇女的医疗保健产生重大影响。