Research Core

研究核心

• 批准号: 8401855
• 负责人: ROBERT A LEVINE
• 金额: $ 10.72万
• 依托单位: MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-12-04 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8401855
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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.专题焦点 研究核心的总体主题是刺激和推进多层次、跨学科和社区参与的卫生服务研究，以减少对弱势群体、种族和少数民族产生不利影响的健康差距。我们中心的一个主要重点将是调查健康干预措施的传播，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尚不清楚。我们的建议是，许多有益的生物干预措施可能会对少数群体产生意想不到的不利影响，或者至少可能不会产生与白人相同的结果。该中心申请中包含的两项研究考察了少数群体中健康创新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和少数族裔之间的健康差异提供了背景和决定因素。它假设健康方面的差异是建立在社会和经济不平等以及影响健康创新向社会不同阶层传播速度的特征造成的脆弱性之上的。拟议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（包括公共政策和健康的影响）之间关系的科学理解，而且是为了确定和传播有关减少临床和社区合作伙伴差异的关键途径的知识。 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小组，他们精通系统框架，了解多层次方法，并接受卫生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，以改善服务不足人群的健康，并为消除健康差距铺平道路； c) 为研究者提供使用二手数据集来检验相关假设并产生新知识的机会； d) 成功提交文章发表并竞争研究者 发起了研究资助。