Anderson N B
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1998 May 1;840:563-76. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09595.x.
One of the principal goals of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health is to facilitate interdisciplinary research between social, behavioral, and biomedical scientists. The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for such interdisciplinary health research. The essence of this framework is the concept of levels of analysis in the health sciences. These levels include the social/environment, behavioral/psychological, organ systems, cellular, and molecular. The interdependence of these five levels of analysis suggests that advances in the health sciences may be accelerated by a more integrated, multilevel approach to research. The principles of integrated, multilevel research are outlined, and examples of research that support this approach are presented. Finally, some of the activities of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research that will further interdisciplinary research across levels of analysis are summarized.
美国国立卫生研究院行为与社会科学研究办公室的主要目标之一是促进社会、行为和生物医学科学家之间的跨学科研究。本文的目的是为这种跨学科健康研究提供一个框架。这个框架的核心是健康科学中的分析层次概念。这些层次包括社会/环境、行为/心理、器官系统、细胞和分子。这五个分析层次的相互依存关系表明，采用更综合的多层次研究方法可能会加速健康科学的进展。文中概述了综合多层次研究的原则，并列举了支持这种方法的研究实例。最后，总结了行为与社会科学研究办公室为进一步推动跨分析层次的跨学科研究而开展的一些活动。
