Community-Based Health Services Research Curriculum

摘要

The aim of this initiative was to develop research capacity at the interfacebetween traditional child health cared and community systems. To accomplish this, the authors (1) developed, implemented and evaluated a curriculum in community-based child health services research, including a monthly seminar using the case method; (2) developed and implemented six community-based child health services research cases including one interactive, hypermedia, Web-based case; (3) conducted two annual conferences on community-based child health services research; and (4) created opportunities for the Community-Based Child health Services Research Seminars first or second among all seminars in the program in each of the 3 years of its implementation. They reported positive changes following seminars in their awareness of issues, confidence, and readiness to carry out community-based research studies. Fellows and faculty published 56 studies in community-based health services research studies. Fellows and faculty published 56 studies in community-based health services health services research during the project period, an increase over previous years. The curriculum and cases will be made available to the public on the authors' fellowship website.