Aging Health and Health Services Research Training

描述(由申请人提供)：“老龄化健康与健康服务研究”的拟议培训计划旨在培训未来的研究人员，将流行病学和生物统计学方法与健康服务研究与老龄化应用相结合。在过去十年中，由于研究人员可获得的遗传、临床、流行病学和卫生服务数据的爆炸性增长，老年学知识库取得了重大进展，这使得有可能解决旨在增加我们对人们如何衰老、适应老龄化以及社会因素和卫生服务的可获得性在这一过程中发挥作用的研究问题。国家研究院 美国老龄化协会(NIA)一直走在向调查人员提供此类数据的前沿，只要可能，就将多种类型的数据联系在一起。未来的研究人员必须知道如何最大限度地利用这些数据源。因此，今后将重视认识方法学进步的年轻调查人员，包括收集、合并和管理数据集的新战略；新的和改进的统计和分析战略；以及整合社会、健康和生物数据的主要新工具。我们建议的培训计划更新，通过培养训练有素的研究人员，具有多学科经验和对老龄化的生物、社会、健康、服务和政策方面的广泛理解，满足了NIA研究战略计划的主要目标。这些研究人员将精通传统和新兴方法，以分析新时代流行病学所特有的复杂、嵌套的数据。在丰富的研究和培训环境的基础上，拥有20多年培训调查人员的经验，专注于了解老年人如何使用和受到健康服务的影响，这一竞争性的续签申请将：1)招募高质量的博士生进入老龄化研究；2)提供 提供与老龄保健服务研究相关的实质性专题的培训；3)提供流行病学和统计学方法方面的教育，并将其应用于老龄研究；4)提供与老龄和慢性病相关的现行保健服务研究项目的研究经验；5)为学生作为独立科学家和领导者的研究生涯做好准备。 与公共健康相关：这项培训拨款提案旨在支持流行病学、卫生服务研究和生物统计学方面的博士前实习生的培训，重点是老龄化和卫生服务，以满足日益增长的对研究人员的需求，这些研究人员进行生物、心理和社会力量的研究，这些力量塑造了美国老年人利用卫生服务的方式，以及这些服务如何影响他们的健康和福祉。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed training program in "Aging Health and Health Services Research" seeks to train future investigators in the integration of Epidemiological and Biostatistics methods into Health Services Research with applications in aging. Over the last decade major advances in the knowledge base of gerontology have been occurring thanks to an explosion of genetic, clinical, epidemiological and health services data that have become available to investigators, making it possible to address research questions designed to increase our understanding of how people age, adjust to aging and the role that social factors and the availability of health services play in that process. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) has been at the forefront of making these kinds of data available to investigators, whenever possible, linking multiple types of data together. Researchers of the future must know how to maximize the use of these data sources. Thus, in the future there will be a premium placed on young investigators cognizant of methodological advances ranging from new strategies for collecting, merging and managing data sets; new and refined statistics and analytic strategies; and major new tools for integrating social, health and biological data. The proposed renewal of our training program addresses the major goals of the NIA Strategic Plan for research, by educating well-trained researchers, with multi-disciplinary experience and a broad understanding of the biological, social, health, service and policy aspects of aging. These researchers will be highly skilled in traditional and emerging methodologies for analyzing the complex, nested data that characterize the new era of epidemiology. Building upon a rich research and training environment with over two decades of experience training investigators focused on understanding how the aged use and are affected by health services, this competing renewal application will: 1) recruit high quality doctoral students into aging research; 2) provide training in substantive topics relevant to health services research in aging; 3) provide education in epidemiological and statistical methods with applications to aging research; 4) provide research experiences in ongoing health services research projects related to aging and chronic diseases; and 5) prepare students for research careers as independent scientists and leaders. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Building upon a rich, interdisciplinary research environment with numerous NIA funded investigators, this training grant proposal seeks to support the training of pre-doctoral trainees in Epidemiology, Health Services Research and Biostatistics with a focus on Aging and Health Services in order to meet the growing demand for investigators conducting research on the biological, psychological and social forces that shape the manner in which older Americans utilize health services and how those services affect their health and well-being.