Community Research Center for Senior Health

描述（由申请人提供）：斯科特和白色医疗保健（S&W），得克萨斯州A&M农村公共卫生学校（SRPH）和得克萨斯州老龄服务网络提出了一个合资企业，以创建和支持社区研究中心的高级健康（中心）。该中心将制定，实施，评估和传播循证干预措施，解决扩展慢性病护理模式中定义的老年人健康的多种社会和行为决定因素。中心的活动将针对三个具体目标。目标1将侧重于建立一个可持续的基础设施，促进跨学科和多背景的方法，以高级健康干预研究。目标2将更充分地发展社区与学术健康中心的关系，促进社区参与研究规划、研究参与和研究结果的传播。目标3将在研究设计、评估和数据分析技术方面为研究人员和社区领导人提供指导和支持，以平衡严谨科学的需求和在社区环境中进行健康研究的实际现实。针对每一具体目标提出了活动建议。一个多维度的评估计划被描绘成跟踪进展，确定改进的机会，并支持未来的资金申请。我们将评估计划中心活动的全面实施所需的流程，并将评估我们目标社区老年人健康的预期结果。当地支持的证据，包括中心费用的成本分摊，表明当地对拟议中心的投资。可持续性是由一个组织结构，锚中心参与学术医疗保健和社区组织的授权领导人解决。这些领导人已经证明有能力为社区合作项目获得资金。 公共卫生相关性：社区领导人、医疗保健提供者和研究人员、社区服务组织和老年人共同努力，寻找新的解决方案来满足老年人的健康需求，这对我们国家的健康至关重要。当我们共同努力，更好地确定我们不同社区的需求，并制定新的方案和服务，这是可以接受的和可行的许多群体发挥作用，在老年人的健康新的解决方案将到来。该项目将创建老年人健康社区研究中心，以实现这一有价值的目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Scott & White Healthcare (S&W), Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health (SRPH) and the Texas aging service network propose a joint venture to create and support the Community Research Center for Senior Health (The Center). The Center will develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate evidence-based interventions that address multiple social and behavioral determinants of Senior health defined in the Expanded Chronic Care Model. Center activities will address three specific aims. Aim 1 will focus on the creation of a sustainable infrastructure that promotes an interdisciplinary and multi-contextual approach to Senior health intervention research. Aim 2 will more fully develop community-academic health center relationships which foster community participation in research planning, study participation, and dissemination of findings. Aim 3 will provide guidance and support to investigators and community leaders in research design, evaluation, and data analytic techniques that balance the need for rigorous science and the practical realities of conducting health research in community settings. Activities are proposed to address each specific aim. A multi-dimensional evaluation plan is delineated to track progress, identify opportunities for improvement, and support future applications for funding. We will evaluate processes necessary for full implementation of planned Center activities and will evaluate expected outcomes on the health of Seniors in our target communities. Evidence of local support, including cost sharing of Center expenses, demonstrates a local investment in the proposed Center. Sustainability is addressed by an organizational structure that anchors the Center to empowered leaders of the participating academic healthcare and community organizations. These leaders have demonstrated the ability to obtain funding for community-based, collaborative projects. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: It is vital to our nation's health that community leaders, healthcare providers and researchers, community service organizations and Seniors work together to find new solutions to address the health needs of Seniors. New solutions will come when we work together to better identify the needs of our diverse communities and develop new programs and services that are acceptable and feasible to the many groups which play a role in a Senior's health. This project will create the Community Research Center for Senior Health to make possible this worthy goal.