Aging Health and Health Services Research Training

描述（申请人提供）：培训补助金“老龄健康和健康服务研究”解决了NIA战略计划研究的所有4个主要目标，通过教育训练有素的研究人员，具有多学科经验和对生物，社会，健康，老龄化的服务和政策方面，特别强调受训者在传统和新兴的方法学方面具有很高的技能，流行病学新时代的特征的复杂和嵌套的数据。1.招收高素质的博士生从事老龄化研究; 2.提供与老龄化卫生服务研究相关的实质性课题的培训; 3.提供流行病学方法和统计方法在老龄化研究中的应用教育; 4.提供正在进行的与老龄化有关的流行病学和卫生服务研究项目的研究经验; 5.为学生作为独立科学家的学术和研究生涯做好准备。老年健康和健康服务研究培训计划的描述。该培训计划建立在流行病学，生物统计学和卫生服务研究的现有研究生课程的基础上。它代表了课程，研讨会，专题讨论会，跨学科指导学习和研究经验的结合，一组经验丰富，资金充足的调查人员对老龄化和健康进行研究。该培训方案建立了老龄化和保健提供系统以及方法技能等实质性领域的能力。这是通过课程工作，研讨会，专题讨论会，期刊俱乐部的组合，并通过让学生接触到丰富的研究环境，因为学员参加教师的外部资助的研究。培训项目能力包括：1）老龄化相关问题，从生物学到临床老年医学到社会经济因素;2）与老龄化相关研究的方法。对老龄化的理解分为两个部分：1）老龄化的生物学、临床医学、心理学和社会学的实质性领域; 2）老年人和残疾人必须与之互动的预防性健康和保健服务体系。方法学在老龄化研究中的应用包括：1）研究行为中的伦理和监管问题; 2）研究设计和解释; 3）统计和分析技术，特别是管理和操纵复杂的、分层的和纵向的数据集，这些数据集将行政和主要数据联系起来，这些数据集中在体弱的老年人和他们生活的卫生服务和政策环境中。 相关性：我们建议培养研究生在卫生服务研究，流行病学和生物统计学了解老龄化的生物，社会，健康，服务和政策方面，以准备他们的职业生涯作为独立的科学家。我们强调学员在传统和新兴方法学方面具有很高的技能，用于分析高度复杂和嵌套的数据，这些数据是社会科学研究和老龄化流行病学新时代的特征。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training grant "Aging Health and Health Services Research" addresses all 4 of the major goals of the NIA Strategic Plan for research, by educating well trained researchers, with multi-disciplinary experience and a broad understanding of the biological, social, health, service and policy aspects of aging with special emphasis placed on trainees becoming highly skilled in the traditional and emerging methodologies for analyzing the highly complex and nested data that characterize the new era of epidemiology. Training Program Specific Aims 1.Recruit high quality doctoral students into aging research; 2.Provide training in substantive topics relevant to health services research in aging; 3.Provide education in epidemiological methods & statistical approaches with applications to aging research; 4.Provide research experiences in ongoing aging related epidemiological and health services research projects; 5.Prepare students for academic and research careers as independent scientists. Description of the Training Program in Aging Health and Health Services Research. The training program builds on the existing graduate programs in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Services Research. It represents a combination of courses, seminars, symposia, inter-disciplinary guided study and research experiences with a group of experienced and well-funded investigators doing research on aging and health. The training program builds competencies in the substantive area of aging and the health care delivery system as well as in methodological skills. This is achieved by a combination of course work, seminars, symposia,journal clubs and by exposing students to a rich researchenvironment as trainees participate in faculty members' externally funded research. Training Program Competencies include: 1) aging related issues, from biology to clinical geriatrics to socio- economic factors;2) methods relevant to aging related research. Understanding aging is divided into two segments: 1) the substantive areas of biology, clinical medicine, psychology and sociology of aging; and 2) the system of preventive health and health care services with which the elderly and disabled must interact. Methodological applications in aging research include: 1) ethical and regulatory issues in research conduct; 2) research design and interpretation; and, 3) statistical and analytic techniques particularly the management and manipulation of complex, hierarchical and longitudinal data sets linking administrative and primary data focused on the frail elderly and the health services and poliy environment in which they live. RELEVANCE: We propose to train graduate students in Health Services Research, Epidemiology and Biostatistics in understanding the biological, social, health, service and policy aspects of aging in order to prepare them for careers as independent scientists. We emphasize trainees becoming highly skilled in the traditional and emerging methodologies for analyzing the highly complex and nested data that characterize the new era of social science research and the epidemiology of aging.