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Examining Care For Diverse Populations
The
CASRC core research program on Examining Care for Diverse Populations
focuses on clinical epidemiology in practice research. Clinical
epidemiology seeks to understand how and which treatments or
services are provided to individuals within service systems,
namely the study of patterns of service utilization and treatment
processes. An important component of this core is service systems
research, which addresses large-scale organizational, financing,
and policy questions such as the effect of public legislation,
regulation, and other public policies on the organization and
delivery of services, and the effect that changes in a system
have on the delivery of services. Another component characterizes
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2) Improving Care For Diverse Populations
The
core research program on Improving Care for Diverse Populations
focuses on two areas of practice research: (1) quality of care
research, which works on establishing and testing standards
of care and (2) dissemination and implementation research, which
evaluates methods by which appropriate interventions are introduced
and adopted in clinical practice. We believe that practice research
is an extension of effectiveness research, which asks whether
efficacious treatments can have a measurable, beneficial effect
when implemented across broad populations and in "real-world
settings". This core employs experimental and quasi-experimental
studies to test strategies for improving practice and service
delivery.
Diverse Populations
A
strong focus in both core areas of research is on mental health
care for children and adolescents from diverse populations.
Both research cores specifically emphasize the importance of
understanding the kinds of services delivered to and received
by diverse populations, and the need to ensure that mental health
services are effective across populations.
CASRC investigators
use the term "diverse populations" to signify diversity
in three areas:
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- diversity
in racial, ethnic and cultural background
- diversity
in family structure and living environment (such as biological,
foster, or relative parent homes, or single vs. dual head
of household families)
- diversity
in youth and family public service sectors that provide
care for children and adolescents.
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Research
studies within CASRC are based on the assumption that these
three, often cross-cutting areas of diversity are especially
important to understanding service delivery patterns, and also
to mounting effective service delivery programs. For mental
health services to be effective in community settings, they
must respond appropriately to diversity in the populations receiving
services.
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