Interdisciplinary Healthy Heart Center: Linking Rural Populations by Technology

描述（由申请人提供）：健康心脏中心（HHC）的目标是创建一个基础设施，通过建立跨学科团队和使用技术，促进科学发展，促进心血管疾病风险农村人口的心血管健康。这个建议的一个主要优势是与其他学科的互动和合作，这将丰富工作。试点研究将使调查人员能够为全面干预和结果研究获得更大的外部支持，这些研究将有助于在农村环境中利用技术提供干预和监测结果的知识体系。该中心还将促进研究，为以证据为基础的心血管预防和促进实践提供知识。随着这些知识被用于消除农村环境中的健康差距，更多的人将能够过上更健康的生活，并可能节省数十亿美元的卫生保健费用。HHC的目标是：(1)促进研究基础设施的发展，以支持中心；(2)提高研究项目的数量和质量，以改善患有或有患心血管疾病风险的农村健康人和慢性病患者的健康和生活质量；(3)扩大参与与患有或有患心血管疾病风险的农村个体有关的跨学科研究的研究人员人数；(4)利用远程技术和生物行为方法提高研究项目的数量和质量；(5)规划和发展跨学科研究项目的可持续性，通过内部和外部的合作和伙伴关系建立一个积极和不断发展的研究项目。这些目标将通过监督中心的行政核心和两个额外的核心来实现：建设跨学科团队核心，它将促进对中心科学家的指导，提供跨学科指导和咨询，并协助建立跨学科研究团队；农村技术核心，它将根据需要维护、扩展或开发技术和资源，以提供干预措施和监测结果，以支持中心的试点项目。总体而言，健康中心将在一个创造性的环境中整合资源，以发展师资队伍和健康促进/疾病预防科学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Healthy Heart Center (HHC) is to create an infrastructure that will facilitate developing science to promote cardiovascular (CV) health among rural populations at risk for CV disease by building interdisciplinary teams and using technology. A major strength of this proposal is the interaction and collaboration with other disciplines, which will enrich the work. The pilot studies will position investigators to obtain larger extramural support for full-scale intervention and outcomes studies that will contribute to the body of knowledge on delivering interventions and monitoring outcomes using technology in rural settings. The Center will also facilitate research that will contribute to generation of knowledge for evidence-based CV preventive and promotive practice. As this knowledge is used to eliminate health disparities in rural settings, more people will be enabled to lead healthier lives and potentially save billions of health care dollars. The aims of the HHC are: (1) Facilitate development of research infrastructure to support the center; (2) Expand the number and quality of research projects aimed at improving health and quality of life in both healthy and chronically ill rural individuals with or at risk for cardiovascular disease; (3) Expand the number of research investigators involved in interdisciplinary research related to rural individuals with or at risk for cardiovascular disease; (4) Increase the quantity and quality of research projects using distance technology and biobehavioral methods; and (5) Plan for and develop sustainability of interdisciplinary research programs by building an active and growing research program with collaborations and partnerships both internal and external to CON. These aims will be accomplished through the Administrative Core that oversees the Center, and two additional cores: the Building Interdisciplinary Teams Core, which will facilitate mentoring of Center scientists, provide interdisciplinary guidance and consultation, and assist with building interdisciplinary research teams, and the Rural Technology Core, which will maintain, expand, or develop, technologies and resources, as needed, to deliver interventions and monitor outcomes to support the Center's Pilot Projects. Overall, the HHC will consolidate resources in a creative environment to develop faculty and health promotion/ disease prevention science.