YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH CENTER

约翰霍普金斯大学的这项提案要求五年的 资助一个研究服务和服务系统的中心 有严重情绪障碍(SED)或 患SED的风险很高。拟建的中心建立在强大的 跨主要学术机构的多学科联系 巴尔的摩，主要的州和地方公共机构为儿童和 青少年、私营服务提供者、倡导者、父母和家庭 会员。学术研究人员包括麻省理工学院各系的教员 精神卫生、卫生政策和管理、母婴健康、 和约翰霍普金斯大学(JHU)卫生学院的生物统计学 和公共卫生；精神病学和儿科 JHU医学院；学校社会组织研究中心 马里兰大学精神病学系(UM) 医学院和密歇根大学法学院。 该中心的目标是进行与政策相关的研究， (1)扩大对服务体系和相关因素的了解 效率和成本，以及(2)促进和评估潜力 改善对患有自闭症或精神分裂症的青少年的服务 自闭症的风险。在未来五年内，该中心将承担 以下是： 1.方法开发：开发、实现和测试符合以下条件的方法 整合观察性、流行病学、经济性和组织性 研究需求、备选组织和财务的方法 安排、结果和费用； 2.个性特征：用 自闭症患者(及其家人)与卫生和医疗服务提供者有联系 社会服务和其他公共机构以及它们之间的关系 护理模式的特点； 3.系统特点：评估融资和 在州和地方一级组织服务； 4.成果：开展成果和成本效益研究，以确定 临床、人口统计、治疗、家庭、组织和经济 与服务结果和成本有关的因素；以及 5.传播：传播与政策有关的和方法论的结果 致其他研究人员、政策制定者、系统管理员、保险公司和 付款人、提供者和家庭成员。

This proposal from the Johns Hopkins University requests five years of funding for a center to study services and systems of services for children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances (SED) or at high risk for SED. The proposed Center is built upon strong multidisciplinary linkages across the major academic institutions in Baltimore, the major state and local public agencies serving children and adolescents, private service providers, advocates, parents and family members. Academic researchers include faculty from the Departments of Mental Hygiene, Health Policy and Management, Maternal and Child Health, and Biostatistics of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Hygiene and Public Health; the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics of the JHU School of Medicine; the Center on the Social Organization of Schools of JHU, the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Maryland (UM) School of Medicine, and the Schools of Law of the UM. The goal of the Center is to conduct policy relevant research that will (1) expand knowledge of service systems and factors related to effectiveness and cost and (2) promote and evaluate potential improvements in the delivery of services to youth with SED or at high risk for SED. During the next five years the Center will undertake the following: 1. Method Development: Develop, implement, and test methods that integrate observational, epidemiologic, economic, and organizational approaches for studying need, alternative organizational and financial arrangements, outcomes and costs; 2. Individual Characteristics: Examine the characteristics of youth with SED (and their families) having contact with providers of health and social services and other public agencies and the relationships of these characteristics to patterns of care; 3. System Characteristics: Assess alternatives for financing and organization of services at the state and local level; 4. Outcomes: Conduct outcome and cost-effectiveness studies to identify clinical, demographic, treatment, family, organizational, and economic factors related to outcomes and costs of services; and, 5. Dissemination: Disseminate policy relevant and methodologic findings to other researchers, policy makers, system administrators, insurers and payers, providers, and family members.