Research Core

研究核心

• 批准号: 8374980
• 负责人: ROBERT A LEVINE
• 金额: $ 17.73万
• 依托单位: MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-14 至 2013-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8374980
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4.2.2. Thematic Focus The overall theme of the Research Core is to stimulate and advance multi-level, interdisciplinary and community-engaged health services research to reduce health disparities that adversely affect vulnerable, racial and ethnic minorities. A major focus of our Center will be to investigate the diffusion of health interventions that have been found to be enormously beneficial to society in general, but whose impact on minority populations is less clear. What we are proposing is that many beneficial biological interventions may have unintended adverse effects within minority populations, or at the very least, may not yield results equitable to those found among whites. The two studies included in this Center application examine two different aspects of the diffusion of health innovations in minority populations. Our overarching hypothesis is that the independent and interrelated effects of individual, community, and systems-level factors provide both the context and determinants for health disparities between whites and racial and ethnic minorities. It assumes that disparities in health build upon vulnerabilities caused by social and economic inequalities and characteristics which affect the speed of diffusion of health innovations to different segments of our society. The sum of proposed Center activities is not only to advance scientific understanding of the relationship between individual, community, and macro social factors, including the effects of public policies and health, but to identify and disseminate knowledge about key pathways for reducing disparities to clinical and community partners. The primary goals of the Research Core are to: a) develop a strong, inter-disciplinary, core group of researchers, steeped in a systems framework, knowledgeable about a multi-level approach, and trained in health services research methods; b) assist project investigators focus their research on culturally relevant interventions to improve the health of underserved populations and to pave the way for the elimination of health disparities; c) provide opportunities for investigators to use secondary data sets to test relevant hypotheses and generate new knowledge; and d) successfully submit articles for publication and compete for investigator initiated research grants.

4.2.2。主题焦点 研究核心的总主题是鼓励和推进多层次、跨学科和社区参与的卫生服务研究，以减少对弱势群体、种族和少数民族造成不利影响的健康差距。我们中心的一个主要重点将是调查卫生干预措施的传播情况，这些干预措施已被发现对整个社会非常有益，但其对少数群体的影响不太明显。我们建议的是，许多有益的生物干预措施可能会在少数群体中产生意想不到的不利影响，或者至少可能不会产生与白人平等的结果。该中心申请中包含的两项研究考察了卫生创新在少数群体中传播的两个不同方面。 我们的总体假设是，个人、社区和系统层面因素的独立和相互关联的影响为白人与种族和少数民族之间的健康差异提供了背景和决定因素。它假定，健康方面的差距是建立在社会和经济不平等和特征造成的脆弱性的基础上的，这些特征影响了卫生创新向我们社会不同阶层扩散的速度。建议的中心活动的总和不仅是为了促进对个人、社区和宏观社会因素之间关系的科学理解，包括公共政策和健康的影响，而且还确定并向临床和社区合作伙伴传播关于减少差距的关键途径的知识。 研究核心的主要目标是：a)发展一支强大的、跨学科的核心研究人员队伍，深入系统框架，了解多层次办法，并接受保健服务研究方法方面的培训；b)协助项目调查人员将研究重点放在与文化相关的干预措施上，以改善未得到充分服务的人群的健康，并为消除健康差距铺平道路；c)为调查人员提供使用二级数据集检验相关假设和产生新知识的机会；以及d)成功地提交论文发表并竞争研究人员。 发起研究拨款。