The Healthcare Delivery and Methodologies [HDM] IRG reviews applications for research on health and health-related behaviors of individuals and populations, particularly studies that examine socio-environmental factors, cultural factors and processes, institutions, social organization, social networks, media, and social and family group membership. Specific areas of interest reviewed within the HDM IRG include (but are not limited to): studies of socio-environmental influences on health, behavior and development; community and organizational interventions for the prevention and modification of risk behaviors; health services research on the antecedents and consequences of health services utilization, including multidisciplinary investigations of factors affecting access, organization, costs, quality, and the financing of health services; methodological issues, various statistical techniques, and modeling of phenomena relevant to behavioral and social science research; description, prevention, treatment and control of chronic and communicable diseases in the community; approaches to promoting health and preventing disease; interventions influencing patient health outcomes, costs and nursing systems; bioethics; and occupational or work environments and their relationship to health and well-being of workers.
The following study sections are included within the HDM IRG:
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