Linking Research and Public Health Practice A Review of CDC's Program of Centers for Research and Demonstration of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (1997) / Chapter Skim
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A Vision for the Prevention Research Centers Program
A Vision for the Prevention Research Centers Program
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These challenges suggest an opportunity for the PRC program to place much greater emphasis on its outreach, dissemination, technical assistance, and implementation roles. Collaborative funding of community and state or regional dissemination and implementation efforts must also be pursued so that the responsibility of funding and staffing community, state, and regional programs is shared by all public and private stakeholdershealth care providers, public health departments, private businesses, and others.
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The PRC program could generate new knowledge, from fundamental concepts to practical approaches, and could support prevention practice at CDC, as well as at state and local public health agencies, in communities, and in health service delivery settings. CDC has an organizational focus on community health and has both a unique interest and experience to bring to public health practice research.
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The vision should encourage PRCs, and others who work in health promotion and disease prevention, to expand their activities, moving toward centers characterized by: . focus on risk conditions and social determinants of health; · an orientation toward the community; · interdisciplinarity; · a means for dissemination research in public health; · an interactive process for establishing research priorities; · a role in setting national research priorities.
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The new models take a multidisciplinary approach, uniting biomedical sciences, public health, psychology, statistics and epidemiology, economics, sociology, education, and other disciplines. The importance of considering the origins of health and the underlying risk conditions of disease in individuals and populations is emphasized in these new models.
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This model makes it clear that a wide range of actors, many whose roles are not within the traditional domain of"health activities," both affect and have a stake in a community's health. These include individual health care providers, public health agencies, health care organizations, purchasers of health services, local governments, schools, community organizations, policymakers, and the public.
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Interdisciplinary research is one of the defining features of research centers that distinguishes them from most academic departments and justifies their existence within a university. One view of interdisciplinary research organizations is that their creation depends on uncertainty about a single approach to solve or research the problems they address, and that "a prime danger to the survival of interdisciplinary research organizations (IDROs)
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State and local health agencies play a critical role as linking agents in the process of diffusion of research in public health practice. A recommendation from CDC's First National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control (CDC, 1987)
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In its allocation of funding to specific research institutes and programs, Congress establishes research priorities. In their selection of specific research initiatives to be included in annual budgets, federal agencies establish research priorities.
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, but under the present system of setting priorities, researchers may never be able to study that idea. The public health community does not want and probably does not need a single agency to convene and establish higher-level research priorities to direct federal funding decisions.
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