Bachrach Christine A, Abeles Ronald P
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-7510, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2004 Jan;94(1):22-8. doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.1.22.
Programs within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently taken steps to enhance social science contributions to health research. A June 2000 conference convened by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research highlighted the role of the social sciences in health research and developed an agenda for advancing such research. The conference and agenda underscored the importance of research on basic social scientific concepts and constructs, basic social science research on the etiology of health and illness, and the application of basic social science constructs in health services, treatment, and prevention research. Recent activities at NIH suggest a growing commitment to social science research and its integration into interdisciplinary multilevel studies of health.
美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)内部的项目最近已采取措施,以加强社会科学对健康研究的贡献。2000年6月,由NIH行为与社会科学研究办公室召集的一次会议强调了社会科学在健康研究中的作用,并制定了推进此类研究的议程。该会议和议程强调了对基本社会科学概念和结构的研究、关于健康与疾病病因的基础社会科学研究,以及基本社会科学结构在健康服务、治疗和预防研究中的应用的重要性。NIH最近的活动表明,对社会科学研究及其融入跨学科多层次健康研究的承诺日益增强。