Research on the community cooperation model of the clinical and translational science centers in the USA / 中华医院管理杂志

ABSTRACT

The National Institutes of Health(NIH)launched the American Clinical and Translational Science fund program in 2006. Since then both NIH and its clinical and translational science centers made useful experiments in community engagement with initial success. By means of literature review, the authors searched the projects and policies for community cooperation in websites of NIH and the American Clinical and Translational Science Center. They also searched PubMed to look for literatures about the American Clinical and Translational Science Center and community engagement. The study found that community engagement is gradually increasing in clinical and translational science; the cooperation is found over the entire process of research projects, which proves conducive to the development of research; advocating community health service can improve not only community health, but also public health and medical services at the same time.