Research on Vulnerable Women, Children and Families

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议在宾夕法尼亚大学护理学院（SON）的“促进弱势群体健康的研究培训”中竞争性地更新国家研究服务奖。“我们将在前两个奖项期间取得成功的基础上再接再厉，其中包括：1）从代表性不足的少数民族中招聘超过40%的研究员; 2）招聘合格的研究员担任所有职位; 3）在SON的六个研究中心和整个大学内整合研究员; 4）对研究员进行教育，提高他们在文化能力，理论基础和发展适当干预方面的研究专业知识。我们正在提出一个扩大的研究培训计划的基础上派生生态模型的决定因素的健康差异有关的弱势妇女，儿童和家庭。该计划建立在现有SON科学家的成熟基础上，在社区参与性研究领域提供资助的研究计划，并利用具有生物行为调查方法专业知识的科学家。具体目标是培养护士科学家：1）研究多系统层面的因素，有助于弱势妇女，儿童和家庭之间的健康差距; 2）发展尖端，文化适当的，跨学科的研究战略的专业知识，有可能确定和减少健康差距，特别注重生物行为，描述和干预方法; 3）与不同的跨学科科学家，社区领导人和干预措施的预期受益者合作，以相互指导的方式促进弱势妇女，儿童和家庭的健康; 4）发展价值观，批判性思维，沟通技巧和研究专业知识，以解决创造，维持，或扩大弱势群体的健康差距。教师有一个强大的历史和令人印象深刻的组合的生物行为，描述性和干预研究，大大提高了我们对弱势群体的健康差距的理解。在这个为期五年的竞争性更新培训计划中，每年将支持四名博士前和四名博士后学员。培训完成后，他们将能够使用新方法为弱势群体及其家庭的医疗保健做出重大贡献。我们的目标是让这些学员以可持续的方式为大量学者做出贡献，他们的调查路线将照亮，减少和消除弱势妇女，儿童和家庭的健康差距。 相关性：令人信服的证据表明，弱势群体有严重的健康问题。需要训练有素的科学家以新颖的方式解决这些问题，以消除健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are proposing a competitive renewal of the Institutional National Research Service Award at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (SON) for "Research Training to Promote Health in Vulnerable Populations." We will build on the successes from our first two award periods that include: 1) recruitment of more than 40% of our fellows from under-represented minorities; 2) recruitment of qualified fellows to all positions; 3) integration of fellows within the six research centers at the SON and within the University at large; 4) education of fellows that increased their research expertise regarding culturally-competent, theoretically-based, and developmentally-appropriate interventions. We are proposing an expanded research- training program based on the Derived Ecological Model of Determinants of Health Disparities related to Vulnerable Women, Children, and Families. The program builds on the maturation of existing SON scientists with funded programs of research in the area of community participatory research and capitalizes on the addition of scientists with expertise in bio-behavioral methods of inquiry. Specific aims are to train nurse scientists to: 1) study multi-system level factors that contribute to health disparities among vulnerable women, children, and families; 2) develop expertise in cutting-edge, culturally-appropriate, interdisciplinary research strategies with the potential to identify and reduce health disparities, with a particular focus on bio-behavioral, descriptive, and intervention methods; 3) collaborate with a diverse group of interdisciplinary scientists, community leaders, and anticipated beneficiaries of interventions in a mutually instructive fashion to promote health in vulnerable women, children, and families; 4) develop values, critical thinking, communication skills, and research expertise that address the power differentials that create, sustain, or augment health disparities in vulnerable populations. Faculty members have a strong history and impressive portfolio of bio-behavioral, descriptive, and intervention studies that have significantly enhanced our understanding of health disparities in vulnerable populations. In this five-year competitive-renewal training program, four pre- and four post- doctoral trainees will be supported annually. When training is completed, they will be positioned to use novel methods to make significant contributions to the health care of vulnerable people and their families. Our goal is for these trainees to contribute in sustainable ways to a critical mass of scholars whose lines of inquiry will illuminate, reduce, and eliminate health disparities in vulnerable women, children, and families. RELEVANCE: Compelling evidence demonstrates that vulnerable populations have significant health problems. Trained scientists who can address these problems in novel ways are needed to eliminate health disparities.