10th Conference on Health Survey Research Methods

描述（由申请人提供）：本R13申请的目的是请求部分支持第十届健康调查研究方法会议的组织和开展，暂定于2011年举行。自1975年以来，该系列已成功举办了九次会议，这是已知唯一专门以改进健康调查数据收集为主题的研究论坛。每次会议的会议记录都已公开。对于第十届会议，我们建议编写一本编辑过的书或一本期刊的特刊，作为会议的最终产品，我们认为这一战略将增加会议的影响。已经组织了一个正式的指导委员会，由这方面的学术和政府专家组成，并定期举行会议，以规划会议的议程。迄今为止，一些公共和私人研究组织已认捐了约占会议估计费用40%的财政捐款，AHRQ和非联邦来源目前正在考虑其他支持请求。NCI的额外支持将使我们更接近于有足够的资金在2011年初如期召开会议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this R13 application is to request partial support for the organization and conduct of the 10th Conference on Health Survey Research Methods, tentatively scheduled to be held in 2011. Since 1975, nine successful conferences have been held in this series, which is the only research forum known to focus exclusively on the topic of improving the collection of health survey data. The proceedings from each conference have been made publicly available. For the 10th Conference, we are proposing the development of an edited book or a special issue of a journal as the final Conference product, a strategy that we believe will increase the Conference's impact. A formal Steering Committee, made up of academic and government experts on this topic, has been organized and is meeting on a regular basis to plan the agenda for the conference. To date, financial contributions totaling about 40% of the estimated costs of holding the conference have been pledged by a number of public and private research organizations and other requests for support are currently being considered by AHRQ and non-federal sources. Additional support from NCI would push us closer to having sufficient funds to convene the conference on schedule in early 2011. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Survey research is one of the most important sources of empirical data regarding the health of our nation. This conference will focus exclusively on strategies for improving the public health information collected via survey research methodologies.