Aging Health and Health Services Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：“老龄化健康和健康服务研究”的拟议培训计划旨在培训未来的调查人员将流行病学和生物统计学方法整合到健康服务研究中，并应用于老龄化。在过去十年中，老年学知识基础取得了重大进展，这是因为研究人员可以获得大量的遗传、临床、流行病学和保健服务数据，从而能够解决研究问题，以增加我们对人如何衰老、如何适应衰老以及社会因素和保健服务在这一过程中所起作用的了解。国家研究所 老龄化研究所（NIA）一直处于向调查人员提供这类数据的最前沿，只要有可能，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，今后将重视认识到方法上的进步的年轻调查人员，这些进步包括收集、合并和管理数据集的新战略;新的和完善的统计和分析战略;以及整合社会、卫生和生物数据的重要新工具。我们的培训计划的拟议更新解决了NIA研究战略计划的主要目标，通过教育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。这些研究人员将在传统和新兴方法学方面具有很高的技能，用于分析表征流行病学新时代的复杂嵌套数据。在丰富的研究和培训环境的基础上，拥有二十多年的经验，培训研究人员专注于了解老年人如何使用和受健康服务的影响，这种竞争性的更新申请将：1）招募高质量的博士生进入老龄化研究; 2）提供 培训与老龄化卫生服务研究相关的实质性主题; 3）提供流行病学和统计方法的教育，并将其应用于老龄化研究; 4）提供与老龄化和慢性病相关的正在进行的卫生服务研究项目的研究经验;以及5）为学生作为独立科学家和领导者的研究生涯做好准备。 公共卫生相关性：建立在一个丰富的，跨学科的研究环境与众多的NIA资助的调查，这项培训补助金的建议，旨在支持在流行病学，卫生服务研究和生物统计学博士前学员的培训，重点是老龄化和卫生服务，以满足调查人员进行研究的生物，心理和社会力量，塑造了美国老年人利用医疗服务的方式，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.