Creation of an Hispanic Health Research Center in the L*

在 L* 创建西班牙裔健康研究中心

• 批准号: 6852619
• 负责人: JOSEPH MCCORMICK
• 金额: $ 124.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-03 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6852619
• 关键词: Mexican Americans; biomedical facility; clinical research; health disparity

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Creation of a Hispanic Health Research Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. There are two disabling dimensions to Health Disparities in minorities. The first is that minorities have higher frequencies of many diseases, and the second that they have fewer trained people to research and address those diseases within their own populations. Nowhere in the US does this apply more than to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. This proposal addresses both dimensions of health disparity by partnering two institutions in a predominantly (85%) Hispanic border region of South Texas: that is, the, Regional Campus at Brownsville of the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health and The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. This partnership will also draw on expertise and resources of the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health and the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center. Nowhere in the US is there a center dedicated specifically to research on the health of Hispanic Americans. The purpose of this proposal is to create such a Hispanic Health Research Center within the existing academic institutions of a predominantly Hispanic community, designed to address the disease burdens and the paucity of research capacity in this poor, undereducated and medically underserved Hispanic population. The activities of the Hispanic Health Research Center will encompass research on health disparities in Hispanics, provide a source of data on Hispanic health, develop and evaluate intervention strategies for Hispanic cultures, evolve research collaborations with other Hispanic communities, and build research capacity in South Texas LRGV. We propose to develop nine cores, of which three are research cores with projects addressing specific aspects of the major killers of the Hispanic population of South Texas, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. The grant will be centered in Brownsville, in the adjacent, newly constructed buildings of the two partnering institutions on their common campus, sharing web and video facilities, library services, laboratories and other resources. The long-term goals are to enhance the ability of individuals from both partnering institutions to apply for research funding, and to create a strong scientific and academic relationship between the two institutions and the collaborating institutions in Houston. The two Hispanic population and the higher educational institutions attempting to serve them in the LRGV fit every ethnic, economic, geographic and scientific criteria of Project EXPORT.

描述（由申请人提供）：在下里奥格兰德河谷创建西班牙裔健康研究中心。少数族裔的健康差异有两个方面的缺陷。首先，少数群体患许多疾病的频率较高，其次，他们受过培训的人员较少，无法在自己的人群中研究和解决这些疾病。在美国，这一点最适用于德克萨斯州南部的里奥格兰德河谷下游。该提案通过与德克萨斯州南部以拉美裔为主（85%）的边境地区的两个机构合作，解决健康差距的两个方面：即德克萨斯大学休斯顿公共卫生学院布朗斯维尔地区校区和德克萨斯大学在布朗斯维尔/德克萨斯州最南学院。此次合作还将利用德克萨斯大学休斯顿公共卫生学院和德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心的专业知识和资源。在美国任何地方都没有专门研究西班牙裔美国人健康的中心。该提案的目的是在以西班牙裔为主的社区的现有学术机构内创建这样一个西班牙裔健康研究中心，旨在解决贫困、教育不足和医疗服务不足的西班牙裔人口的疾病负担和研究能力不足的问题。西班牙裔健康研究中心的活动将包括西班牙裔健康差异的研究，提供西班牙裔健康的数据来源，制定和评估西班牙裔文化的干预策略，发展与其他西班牙裔社区的研究合作，并建设南德克萨斯州的研究能力轻轨车辆。我们建议开发九个核心，其中三个是研究核心，其项目涉及南德克萨斯州西班牙裔人口主要杀手糖尿病、心血管疾病和癌症的具体方面。这笔赠款将集中在布朗斯维尔两个合作机构共同校园内相邻的新建建筑中，共享网络和视频设施、图书馆服务、实验室和其他资源。长期目标是提高两个合作机构的个人申请研究经费的能力，并在两个机构和休斯顿的合作机构之间建立牢固的科学和学术关系。 LRGV 中的两个西班牙裔人口以及试图为他们提供服务的高等教育机构符合出口项目的所有种族、经济、地理和科学标准。