CENTER FOR HEALTH PROMOTION/DISEASE PREVENTION RESEARCH

其目的是在得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校护理学院的正式结构内，为服务不足的人群建立一个健康促进和疾病预防研究中心。该中心支持的活动和研究将强调以社区为基础的健康促进/疾病预防干预措施的发展。在文化上有能力，并针对年龄和性别，以促进服务不足群体的健康。该中心将包括一个核心行政结构、一个试点赠款机制和三个研究核心：理论和方法核心、研究开发和传播核心以及服务不足和多样化的人口核心。该中心的主要组成部分将是利用先进、创新的统计数据建立分析方法；探索传播研究成果的创新方式；与服务不足的目标群体的代表发展联系；与国际专家建立咨询关系。将开展由中心小额赠款机制支持的试点研究，其共同的具体目标是获得数据，以证明外部赠款申请的合理性，以测试针对服务不足群体的创新健康促进/疾病预防干预措施。这项研究的目的将是减少种族和少数民族人口、妇女和儿童，特别是来自贫困背景的妇女和儿童以及患有慢性病和残疾的人的健康状况方面的差距。拟建的中心将提供必要的资源和支助服务，以继续保持护理教师研究生产力最近的势头；使现有的研究人员能够增加他们工作的深度和广度；发展新的教师研究人员；促进护理学院教师和来自其他大学系的教师之间的更多合作；以及增加针对服务不足的人群进行健康促进/疾病预防干预项目的护理教师数量。该学院的一个研究中心将为这个国家拥有大量、多样化的未得到充分服务的人口的地区提供关键资源。

The purpose is to establish a Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research for Underserved Populations within the formal structures of the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin. Activities and studies supported by the Center will emphasize the development of health promotion/disease prevention interventions that are community-based. culturally competent and age- and gender-specific to promote the health of underserved groups. The Center will include a core administrative structure, a pilot grant mechanisms, and three research cores: Theory and Methods Core, Research Development and Dissemination Core, and Underserved and Diverse Populations Core. Major components of the Center will be the establishment of analytic methods using advanced, innovative statistics; exploration of innovative ways of disseminating research findings; development of linkages with representatives of target underserved groups; and establishment of consultative relationships with international experts. Pilot studies supported by the Center Small Grant Mechanism will be conducted with the common specific aim of acquiring the data to justify extramural grant applications to test innovative health promotion/disease prevention interventions for underserved groups. The intent of the research will be to reduce disparities in the health status of racial and ethnic minority populations; of women and children, in particular those from impoverished backgrounds; and of people with chronic and disabling conditions The proposed Center will provide needed resources and support services to continued recent momentum in research productivity of nursing faculty; to enable current investigators to add depth and breadth to their work; to develop new faculty investigators; to foster increased collaboration among School of Nursing faculty and faculty from other University departments; and to expand the number of nursing faculty conducting health promotion/disease prevention intervention projects targeted at underserved populations. A research center at the School will provide a critical resource for an area of the country that has a large, diverse underserved population.