Center for Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Research

描述（由申请人提供）：这项核心中心拨款的目的是继续和加强在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校护理学院的正式结构内为服务不足人群提供健康促进和疾病预防研究中心（CHPR）。中心支助的活动和研究将强调发展以社区为基础的、具有文化能力的、针对年龄和性别的促进健康/预防疾病的干预措施，以促进服务不足群体的健康。该中心将包括一个核心行政结构、一个试点/可行性资助机制，以及三个研究核心：理论、研究方法与技术核心、传播核心和服务不足人群核心。该中心的主要组成部分将是促进研究人员之间的跨学科和机构间合作；探索创新方法，将技术应用于服务不足人口的研究；研究成果的传播和翻译；与服务不足群体的代表建立联系。将进行由中心支持的试点研究，其共同的具体目标是获取数据，以证明校外赠款申请的合理性，以测试针对服务不足群体的创新健康促进/疾病预防干预措施。研究的目的是减少种族和少数民族人口健康状况的差异；妇女和儿童，特别是来自贫困背景的妇女和儿童，以及患有慢性病和残疾的人。中心将提供所需的资源和支持服务，以保持护理学院近期的研究生产力势头；使目前的调查人员能够增加工作的深度和广度；促进护理学院教员与其他院系教员之间的合作；在少数民族院校培养新的教师调查员；并扩大护理学院的数量，针对服务不足的人群开展健康促进/疾病预防干预项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this Core Center grant is to continue and enhance a Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research for Underserved Populations (CHPR) within the formal structure of the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin. Activities and studies supported by the Center will emphasize the development of health promotion/disease prevention interventions that are community-based, culturally competent and age- and gender-specific to promote the health of underserved groups. The Center will include a core administrative structure, a pilot/feasibility grant mechanism, and three research cores: Theory, Research Methods & Technology Core, Dissemination Core, and Underserved Populations Core. Major components of the Center will be the promotion of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaboration among researchers; exploration of innovative ways of using technology in research with underserved populations; dissemination and translation of research findings; and development of linkages with representatives of underserved groups. Pilot studies supported by the Center will be conducted with the common specific aim of acquiring the data to justify extramural grant applications to test innovative health promotion/disease prevention interventions for underserved groups. The intent of the research will be to reduce disparities in the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations; of women and children, In particular those from impoverished backgrounds: and of people with chronic and disabling conditions. The Center will provide needed resources and support services to continue recent momentum in research productivity of nursing faculty; to enable current investigators to add depth and breadth to their work; to foster increased collaboration among School of Nursing faculty and faculty from other University departments; to develop new faculty investigators at minority serving institutions; and to expand the number of nursing faculty conducting health promotion/disease prevention intervention projects targeted at underserved populations.