Heartland Occupational and Health Education and Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：哈特兰职业健康与安全中心自2000年成立以来，一直是联邦第七大区和美国的资源，为职业健康和安全(OHS)专业的从业者和研究人员提供跨学科的研究生、研究生和住院医师培训。该中心的主要理由是解决联邦第七区的双重问题--高于美国平均职业病和伤害率，以及训练有素的职业安全与健康专业人员短缺。该中心已发展到7个研究生级别的培训项目，包括职业健康护理、职业医学、工业卫生、人体工程学、农业健康与安全、职业伤害预防和职业流行病学。该中心利用传统和创新的远程教育技术，积极开展继续教育和外展计划，惠及该地区数百名从业者。这项提议是为了在未来五年继续为该中心提供资金。预计每个项目领域的年培训人数如下：工业卫生学15人(硕士10人，博士生5人)；职业医学住院医师6人；职业健康护理15人(硕士13人，博士生2人)；人体工程学8人(硕士3人，博士生5人)；工伤预防8人(博士生6人，综合2人)；职业流行病学9人(硕士5人，博士生4人)；农业安全与健康10人(硕士7人，博士生3人)；继续教育1574人。目标：哈特兰职业健康和安全中心提供的培训将增加联邦第七地区(爱荷华州、内布拉斯加州、堪萨斯州和密苏里州)训练有素的职业健康和安全专业人员的数量，并加强职业健康和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.