UTPA Health Services Research Initiative

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯大学泛美分校（UTPA）是美国第二大西班牙裔服务机构，它培养的墨西哥裔美国学生比美国任何其他高等教育机构都多。UTPA服务于美国最贫困地区之一的教育需求-位于德克萨斯州南部格兰德山谷的美墨边境社区。根据德克萨斯大学-与德克萨斯大学系统的泛美契约，UTPA在未来十年的最高优先级长期倡议是成为南德克萨斯的博士研究型大学。为了实现这一目标，UTPA有兴趣开发新的研究生学位课程，提高其教师的研究能力和生产力，特别是在具有区域战略意义的领域，如卫生服务研究。这项AHRQ M-RISP申请寻求在UTPA人口健康政策研究所（ipp）内发展卫生服务研究（HSR）倡议，以加强UTPA的研究环境，提高教员在卫生服务研究方面的竞争力。在高铁倡议下开展的研究活动主要侧重于优先人群的健康差距和医疗保健利用/获取，更具体地说，是美国-墨西哥边境的低收入少数民族人口和没有保险的人。高铁倡议还利用了ipp与宾夕法尼亚大学伦纳德·戴维斯卫生经济学研究所（LDI）之间正在进行的合作伙伴关系。LDI将为拟议的高铁倡议提供技术专长、指导和支持。这个M-RISP申请的具体目标是：(1)发展UTPA的健康服务研究计划，(2)提高教师个人进行健康服务研究的能力，重点是低收入少数民族和无保险人群的研究，(3)发展和促进致力于减少拉丁裔人口，特别是美墨边境地区的健康和医疗保健获取差距的研究。高铁计划将支持四个单独的研究者研究项目，这些项目涉及社区无保险和医疗保健的获取，美国-墨西哥边境地区医疗保健服务的使用，低收入和无保险的弱势群体的恶劣天气和医疗保健的使用，以及以学校为基础的健康促进计划的成本效益和净收益。拟议的高铁倡议还将积极促进初级教师和研究生的研究项目的发展，这些项目关注美国拉丁裔人口，并与AHRQ和utpa - ipp高铁倡议的目标和宗旨保持一致。

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): The University of Texas-Pan American (UTPA) is the second largest Hispanic Serving Institution in the U S. and it educates more Mexican American students than any other institution of higher education in the country. UTPA serves the educational needs of one of the poorest regions in the U.S.-the U.S.-Mexico border communities located in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. According to The University of Texas- Pan American Compact with the University of Texas System, the highest priority long-term initiative of UTPA for the next ten years is to become the doctoral research university of South Texas. In order to achieve this objective, UTPA is interested in developing new graduate degree programs and in increasing the research capacity and productivity of its faculty, especially in areas of regional strategic significance such as health services research. This AHRQ M-RISP application seeks to develop a Health Services Research (HSR) Initiative within the UTPA Institute for Population Health Policy (IPHP) to strengthen the research environment at UTPA and to enhance the competitiveness of faculty members in health services research. The research activities to be undertaken under the HSR Initiative primarily focus on health disparities and health care utilization/access for priority populations-more specifically, low-income minority populations in the U.S.-Mexico border and the uninsured. The HSR Initiative also takes advantage of an ongoing collaborative partnership between the IPHP and the Leonard Davis Institute (LDI) of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. The LDI will provide technical expertise, mentoring and support to the proposed HSR Initiative. The Specific Aims of this M-RISP application are: (1) to develop a Health Services Research Initiative at UTPA, (2) to enhance the capacity of individual faculty members to undertake health service research, with a focus on research in low-income minority populations and the uninsured, and (3) to develop and foster research dedicated to reducing health and health care access disparities among Latino populations, particularly in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The HSR Initiative will support four individual investigator research projects which deal with community uninsurance and health care access, the use of health care services in the U.S.-Mexico border region, severe weather and health care use by low-income and uninsured vulnerable populations, and the cost-effectiveness and net-benefits of school-based health promotion programs. The proposed HSR Initiative will also actively promote the development of research projects by junior faculty and graduate students which focus on the U.S. Latino population and are consistent with the goals and objectives of both AHRQ and the UTPA-IPHP HSR Initiative.