Research Programs
Aging, Disability and Long-Term Care
The program emphasizes factors that affect functional status and promote self-care, independent living and quality of life among older adults. In addition, the program embraces a concern for the extent, quality and availability of long-term care services for persons of any age and for programs that address the special needs of the disabled.
American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute
The American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute is an organization which studies and reports on issues related to the state of the surgical profession, the surgical workforce, and surgical utilization in the United States. The Institute provides expert advice, data analysis, and original research for Surgical professional associations and boards, policymakers, and the health services research community.
Child Health Services
This program sponsors research and evaluation to assure that the health services available to children and women in their childbearing years are accessible, affordable, comprehensive, coordinated, community-based, culturally competent, and family-centered.
Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC)
The RTI-UNC EPC produces systematic reviews and analyses of the scientific evidence (evidence reports and updates) on a variety of health care and health policy topics, from prevention and screening through diagnostic testing to therapy, rehabilitation, counseling, and palliative care. It builds on these reports to create materials and messages for patients and clinicians relating to health care decisions.
General Health Services Research
Includes projects that relate to the study of Health Services Research, although do not fall under any of our current Research Programs.
Health Care Economics and Finance
Focuses on both the general economics of personal health services as well as the specifics of program and organizational finance. In the former category, emphasing on issues of fair and effective distribution of resources, both public and private.
Health Care Engineering
Healthcare Engineering is an emerging concern with the “systems” of health care delivery arising primarily from the discipline of industrial and system engineering.
Health Care Organization
Emphasis is given to understanding the fundamental changes confronting providers and the way in which the organization of medical services at the community level influences the diffusion of prevention and early detection services.
Health Disparities
Emphasis is given to understanding the fundamental changes confronting providers and the way in which the organization of medical services at the community level influences the diffusion of prevention and early detection services.
Health Policy Analysis Unit
Activities focus on research and evaluation of issues that are of direct or immediate policy relevance, especially to North Carolinians. The unit serves as a link between Center researchers and communities, organizations and institutions with interests in health.
Health Professions and Primary Care
Current research efforts include addressing issues of recruitment and retention of health care practitioners in rural practice, as well as the projection of need and demand for health professional personnel.
Medical Practice and Prevention
Collaborates with practicing physicians in North Carolina and across the United States to explore variations in the practice of medicine and their implications for health care outcomes. Expands the currently limited understanding of the value, cost, and application of preventive health services in the United States. Gives emphasis to a concern for the development and application of rigorous techniques of program evaluation and the integration of a concern for prevention into the clinical practice mainstream.
MEQI - Medication Error Quality Initiative
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services and Systems Research
Focuses on deveoping new knowledge of and proforming research related to clinical and social outcomes for service recipients, the structures, processes and effects of managed behavioral healthcare programs, and the integration of mental health services with other substance abuse, primary care, criminal justice, and social welfare systems.
North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Serves as a non-political source of health policy analysis and advice in North Carolina. The NC General Assembly chartered the NC IOM in 1983 to provide balanced, nonpartisan information on complex and often controversial health issues in our state.
Rural Health Research Program
Works to identify problems in the rural health arena through policy-relevant analyses, the geographic and graphical presentation of data, and the dissemination of information to organizations and individuals in the health care field who can use this information for policy or administrative purposes.
Southeast Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies
Conducts research and analysis with the goal of improving access to an appropriate and effective health workforce in the Southeast and North Carolina. The Center also collects and maintains data describing the need for and supply of health professionals, and makes these data available for research and policy analysis purposes.
Women's Health Services Research
Provides research services for women's health investigators to optimize research quality and improve the health of women. Together, we are working to serve the women of North Carolina and the nation by documenting the health status of women, studying models for improving care, evaluating promising new treatments, and developing effective prevention programs.
