PhD Training in Population Health & Quality Improvement

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目旨在培养在人口健康科学、系统和质量工程以及定量方法方面具有坚实的跨学科基础的高技能、健康服务研究人员。个人和人口的健康是许多决定因素的产物，从个人行为和遗传天赋，到环境暴露，到卫生系统特征，以及社会经济和种族-民族/文化因素。该计划的学生将接受培训，使他们能够将他们的研究放在更广泛的人群中，并熟练掌握从系统角度进行卫生服务研究和质量改进的一般分析方法。拟议的计划将利用三个跨学科培训机会的汇合：该大学人口健康方面的快速增长的博士计划；一个长期的工业工程(IE)博士计划，重点是健康系统、人的因素和质量工程；以及新资助的罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊人口健康与社会学者计划。 申请人建议一项结合以人口为基础的健康服务研究和医疗质量改善/患者安全重点的博士前培训计划，其中9个培训职位约三分之二分配给攻读人口健康科学博士学位的学生，三分之一分配给质量和生产力改进中心患者安全系统工程倡议附属IE的三分之一。学生们分享核心人口健康课程(健康决定因素、流行病学、卫生服务研究、医疗保健质量和统计学方法)和一门涵盖社会技术系统原理的工程课程，以及科学道德行为方面的培训，并支持学生前往参加国家科学会议。20名高度跨学科的教师提供研究机会，了解和评估人群(特别是弱势人群)的健康和健康差距的来源，到医疗保健系统中患者的安全和质量改进，到开发新的测量和统计方法来衡量健康结果，并进行医疗保健技术评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This program seeks to produce highly skilled, health services researchers who have a strong interdisciplinary foundation in population health sciences, systems and quality engineering, and quantitative methods. Health of individuals and populations is the product of many determinants ranging from personal behaviors and genetic endowment, to environmental exposures, to health system characteristics, and socioeconomic and racial-ethnic/cultural factors. Students in this program will have training allowing them to place their research in a larger population focus as well as to be skilled in general analytic methods for health services research and quality improvement from a systems perspective. The proposed program will take advantage of the confluence of three interdisciplinary training opportunities: the University's rapidly growing PhD program in Population Health; a longstanding doctoral program in Industrial Engineering (IE) emphasizing Health Systems, Human Factors, and Quality Engineering; and a newly-funded Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program within Population Health. The applicant proposes a pre-doctoral training program combining population-based health services research and healthcare quality improvement/patient safety emphases with nine training positions distributed roughly two-third of the positions to students pursuing the PhD degree in Population Health Sciences, and one-third in IE affiliated with the Systems Engineering Initiative in Patient Safety within the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement. Students share core population health courses (determinants of health, epidemiology, health services research, quality in healthcare, and statistical methods) and an engineering course covering principles of sociotechnical systems, as well as training in ethical conduct of science, and are supported for travel to national scientific meetings. Twenty highly interdisciplinary faculty offer research opportunities understanding and assessing health and sources of health disparities in populations (especially vulnerable populations), to patient safety and quality improvement in the healthcare system, to development of new measurement and statistical methods to measure health outcomes and conducting healthcare technology assessment.