Heartland Occupational and Health Education and Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：自2000年成立以来，哈特兰职业健康与安全中心一直是第七联邦区和美国的资源，为职业健康与安全（OHS）专业的从业人员和研究人员提供跨学科的研究生、研究生和住院医师培训。建立该中心的主要理由是解决第七联邦区的双重问题——高于美国平均水平的职业病和伤害率以及训练有素的职业健康安全专业人员的短缺。目前，中心已发展成职业卫生护理、职业医学、工业卫生、人体工程学、农业卫生与安全、职业伤害预防、职业流行病学等7个研究生培养项目。该中心利用传统和创新的远程教育技术，积极开展继续教育和推广项目，惠及该地区数百名从业人员。这项提案是为了在未来五年内继续资助该中心。每个方案领域每年预计培训人数如下：工业卫生15人（硕士10人，博士5人）；职业医学住院医师6；职业卫生护理15人（硕士13人，博士2人）；人体工程学8人（硕士3人，博士5人）；职业伤害预防8人（博士6人，综合2人）；职业流行病学9人（硕士5人，博士4人）；农业安全与卫生10人（硕士7人，博士3人）；继续教育目标：哈特兰职业健康与安全中心提供的培训将增加联邦第七区（爱荷华州、内布拉斯加州、堪萨斯州和密苏里州）受过培训的职业健康与安全专业人员的数量，并加强职业健康与安全专业人员的能力，以降低该地区职业病和伤害的高发生率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Since its inception in 2000, the Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety has served as a resource for Federal Region VII and the US, providing interdisciplinary graduate, postgraduate, and residency training for practitioners and researchers in occupational health and safety (OHS) professions. The major rationale for the Center is to address dual problems in Federal Region VII-higher than US average rates of occupational disease and injury and shortages of trained OHS professionals. The Center has grown to 7 graduate level training programs, including occupational health nursing, occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, agricultural health and safety, occupational injury prevention, and occupational epidemiology. The Center's active continuing education and outreach programs reach hundreds of practioners in the Region, utilizing traditional and innovative distance-education technology. This proposal is for continued funding of the Center for the next five years. The projected annual number of trainees in each program area are the following: Industrial Hygiene 15 (10 master's, 5 doctoral); Occupational Medicine Residency 6; Occupational Health Nursing 15 (13 master's, 2 doctoral); Ergonomics 8 (3 master's, 5 doctoral); Occupational Injury Prevention 8 (6 doctoral, 2 integrative); Occupational Epidemiology 9 (5 master's, 4 doctoral); Agricultural Safety and Health 10 (7 master's, 3 doctoral); Continuing Education 1574. Objective: The training provided by the Heartland Center for Occupational Health and Safety will increase the number of trained occupational health and safety professionals in Federal Region VII (Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri) and strengthens the capabilities of occupational health and safety professionals to reduce the high rates of occupational disease and injury in this region.