Aging Health and Health Services Research Training

项目总结/摘要 “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 将流行病学和生物统计学方法整合到卫生服务研究中的研究人员， 在衰老中的应用在过去的十年中，老年学知识基础的主要进展是 由于遗传、临床、流行病学和卫生服务数据的爆炸式增长， 成为研究人员可用，使解决旨在增加我们的研究问题成为可能。 了解人们如何衰老，适应衰老以及社会因素和健康的可用性的作用 服务在这个过程中发挥作用。国家老龄化研究所（NIA）一直处于制定这些政策的最前沿。 尽可能将多种类型的数据联系在一起。研究人员 未来的人必须知道如何最大限度地利用这些数据源。因此，未来将有一个 重视认识到方法进步的年轻研究人员， 收集、合并和管理数据集;新的和完善的统计和分析战略;以及主要的新的 整合社会、健康和生物数据的工具。 我们的培训计划的拟议更新解决了NIA战略计划的主要目标， 研究，通过教育训练有素的研究人员，具有多学科经验和广泛的理解 老龄化的生物、社会、健康、服务和政策方面。这些研究人员将高度熟练地 传统和新兴方法，用于分析新时代的复杂嵌套数据 流行病学。建立在一个丰富的研究和培训环境与超过二十年的经验 培训调查人员的重点是了解老年人如何使用卫生服务以及如何受到卫生服务的影响， 竞争续签申请将：1）招募高质量的博士生进入老龄化研究; 2）提供 培训与老龄卫生服务研究有关的实质性课题; 3）提供教育， 流行病学和统计学方法与老龄化研究的应用; 4）提供研究经验， 正在进行的与老龄化和慢性病有关的卫生服务研究项目;以及5）为学生做好准备， 作为独立的科学家和领导者的研究生涯。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 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.