ANN ARBOR, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and other non-communicable diseases will soon be the leading cause of illness and death in Thailand has become, as the country becomes richer.
To prevent and better manage these diseases, there is a growing need for research by nurses and other health professionals who play in the system of health care in Thailand an important role. A new project, the University of Michigan and a dependent Institute of the Ministry of Public Health of Thailand, help research training for nurses and other health professionals need the South Asian nation.
"Strengthening the capacity of nursing research and education MNT project in Thailand" is. Supported by a grant of $ 1,150,000 in the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health Center supports research and training U.S. and foreign researchers. Developing countries
A nursing student at the UM collaboration with colleagues in Thailand to visit a patient.
The new program will build on the many years of cooperation between the school of nursing at the UM Institute for Health and Workforce Development Praboromarajchanok. Both programs provide tutors, mentors and consultants who will provide the training program of five years starting this year.
Kathleen Potempa, dean of the principal investigator and the project of the School of Nursing at the UM, the UM able to build what you have learned PhD program for nurse researchers in the last half century, a model.
"We can help train a group of people in the research goes back to Thailand for mentoring for nurses in the country, besides everything else, which is an increase of chronic diseases, including many of the conditions that know that they are manageable and can also be prevented from evidence-based practice, "Potempa said.
Benjaporn Rajataramya Thailand is an important partner to develop the project, stressed that his country played a leading role in Southeast Asia in dealing with infectious diseases such as HIV / AIDS, through research and policy development.
"With the help of these important grants now can lead Thailand South Asia in the management of non-transferable, by the discovery and exploration of chronic diseases," Benjaporn, research expert and director of the research center, said the Praboromarajchanok Institute.
The training program of Thai nurses are:
The graduate of two people per year who spend years doing research in the UM mentor and another year of project implementation in Thailand.
Short training in order to strengthen or three months to eight people each year their understanding of the methodology, analysis and policy.
Years of research workshops in Thailand for students, teachers, administrators, and other professionals from the Ministry of Health, universities and institutes of Thailand.
On the left: