Aging Health and Health Services Research Training

描述（由申请人提供）：“老龄健康与健康服务研究”培训基金通过培养训练有素、具有多学科经验、对生物、社会、健康和健康等领域有广泛理解的研究人员，实现了NIA研究战略计划的所有4个主要目标。老龄化的服务和政策方面，特别强调学员在分析流行病学新时代特征的高度复杂和嵌套数据的传统和新兴方法方面变得高度熟练。培训计划的具体目标招收高素质的博士研究生从事老龄化研究；2.提供与老龄保健服务研究有关的实质性专题培训；3.提供流行病学方法和统计学方法在老龄化研究中的应用教育；4.为正在进行的与老龄化相关的流行病学和卫生服务研究项目提供研究经验；5.培养学生作为独立科学家从事学术和研究工作。老年健康与健康服务研究培训计划描述。培训计划建立在现有的流行病学、生物统计学和卫生服务研究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，由一群经验丰富、资金充足的研究人员进行老龄化与健康的研究。该培训计划在老龄化和卫生保健提供系统的实质性领域以及方法技能方面建立能力。这是通过课程作业、研讨会、专题讨论会、期刊俱乐部的结合，以及通过让学生参与教师外部资助的研究，让学生接触到丰富的研究环境来实现的。培训项目能力包括：1)与衰老相关的问题，从生物学到临床老年病学再到社会经济因素；2)老龄相关研究的相关方法。对老龄化的理解分为两个部分：1)实质性领域的生物学、临床医学、心理学和老龄化社会学；2)老年人和残疾人必须参与的预防保健和保健服务体系。方法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)研究设计与解释；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，这些数据集将侧重于体弱多病的老年人及其生活的保健服务和政策环境的行政数据和初级数据联系起来。

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.