Heartland Occupational and Health Education and Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：自2000年成立以来，中心的职业健康和安全一直作为联邦第七区和美国的资源，提供跨学科的研究生，研究生和实习培训的从业人员和研究人员在职业健康和安全（OHS）专业。该中心的主要理由是解决联邦第七区的双重问题-高于美国平均水平的职业病和伤害率和训练有素的职业健康和安全专业人员短缺。该中心已发展到7个研究生水平的培训课程，包括职业健康护理，职业医学，工业卫生，人机工程学，农业健康与安全，职业伤害预防和职业流行病学。该中心积极的继续教育和推广计划，利用传统和创新的远程教育技术，覆盖该地区的数百名从业人员。该提案是关于在今后五年内继续为该中心提供资金。每个方案领域的预计年度受训人数如下：工业卫生15（10名硕士，5名博士）;职业医学住院医师6名;职业健康护理15名（13名硕士，2名博士）;人体工程学8名（3名硕士，5名博士）;职业伤害预防（6名博士，2名综合）;职业流行病学9名（5名硕士，4名博士）;农业安全与健康10名（7名硕士，3名博士）;继续教育1574名。目的：中心地带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、堪萨斯和密苏里州）训练有素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，以降低该地区的职业病和伤害高发生率。

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.