Community Maternal & Child Health-Eastern North Carolina

社区孕产妇

• 批准号: 6786052
• 负责人: John M Thorp
• 金额: $ 17.99万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6786052
• 关键词: African American; case history; clinical research; community health services; cooperative study; data collection methodology /evaluation; disease /disorder prevention /control; geographic site; health care service availability; health disparity; health education; health science research; health services research tag; human ecology; human subject; immunization; infant mortality; information systems; medically underserved population; mother /infant health care; outcomes research; premature infant human; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; rural area; socioeconomics; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Maternal and child health disparities in infant mortality, preterm birth, and access to health care persist as important problems in North Carolina, and disproportionately affect people in the predominantly rural Eastern part of the state. The investigations proposed build upon a five-year collaboration among the Eastern NC Baby Love Plus Consortium, the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and the UNC Department of Maternal and Child Health. We propose to increase research and intervention capacity toward understanding and eliminating health disparities in rural North Carolina by developing a community-linked collaboration, and by implementing pilot studies aimed at understanding community influences on maternal, infant, and child health. In this proposal, the collaborative research planning process and its successful implementation are given equal weight in achieving our goals. The formative process includes the development of unique training opportunities for the community partners and other minority investigators to improve community infrastructure for conducting health disparity research and intervention. The process will also provide opportunities for University investigators to increase their networks and competence to work in rural NC communities. Suggested pilot studies aim to formulate collaborative research questions with the community that can be answered through current data collection efforts of the Baby Love Plus Evaluation, and to utilize geographic information systems to explore community socio-environmental context. Ultimately, we present a process for a reasonably paced, systematic development of a full-scale community-partnered multi-level research project.

描述（由申请人提供）：婴儿死亡率，早产和获得医疗保健的孕产妇和儿童健康差异仍然是北卡罗来纳州的重要问题，并不成比例地影响该州东部地区主要农村地区的人们。调查提出，基于东北北卡罗来纳州Baby Love Plus Consortium，UNC Cecil G. Sheps Health Services Research中心和UNC孕产妇和儿童健康部的五年合作。我们建议通过建立与社区联系的合作，并实施旨在了解社区对母亲，婴儿和儿童健康的影响的试点研究，以提高北卡罗来纳州农村的研究和干预能力，以理解和消除北卡罗来纳州农村的健康差异。在此提案中，协作研究计划过程及其成功实施在实现我们的目标方面具有相同的权重。形成过程包括为社区合作伙伴和其他少数民族调查人员开发独特的培训机会，以改善社区基础设施进行健康差异研究和干预。该过程还将为大学调查人员提供增加其网络和在农村NC社区工作的能力的机会。建议的试点研究旨在与社区提出协作研究问题，可以通过Baby Love和评估的当前数据收集工作来回答，并利用地理信息系统来探索社区社会环境环境。最终，我们提出了一个合理节奏的，系统地开发全面社区合作的多层次研究项目的过程。