Building a research agenda: responding to the needs of community and migrant health centers

• Published in: The Journal of rural health Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 289 - 294
• Main Authors: Mueller, K.J. (University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.), Curtin, T, Hawkins, D, Williams, D.M, Lefkowitz, B
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.1998
• Subjects: COMMUNAUTE RURALE; Community Health Centers; COMUNIDADES RURALES; CONFERENCES; Decision Making, Organizational; HEALTH SERVICES; Health Services Research - methods; Health Services Research - organization & administration; Humans; Managed Care Programs - economics; Medicaid; MIGRACION; MIGRATION; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); PROJET DE RECHERCHE; PROYECTOS DE INVESTIGACION; Research Design; RESEARCH PROJECTS; Research Support as Topic; RURAL COMMUNITIES; Rural Health Services; SERVICE DE SANTE PUBLIQUE; SERVICIOS DE SALUD; Transients and Migrants; United States; United States
• ISSN: 0890-765X; 1748-0361
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1998.tb00634.x

This article summarizes the results of an invitational conference designed to establish a research agenda for collaborative projects involving university-based health services researchers and staff (administrative and clinical) from Community and Migrant Health Centers (C/MHCs). More research related to C/MHCs needs to be developed, preferably by collaborative teams of researchers and C/MHC personnel. Specific research ideas are summarized, and five more detailed research proposals are presented. This is an especially important area that needs work, given the changes taking place in health care finance and the impacts of those changes on C/MHCs