Caribbean Exploratory NCMHD Research Center for Excellence

加勒比探索性 NCMHD 卓越研究中心

基本信息

批准号：
7913858
负责人：
Gloria Brooks Callwood
金额：
$ 60万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-21 至 2011-09-20
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7913858
关键词：
Accidental Injury Address African American African Caribbean Behavioral Cardiovascular Diseases Caribbean region Caring Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)Centers of Research Excellence Chronic Disease Client Clinical Collaborations Communities Community Outreach Complex Data Development Diabetes Mellitus Discipline of Nursing Education Educational Background Evidence based intervention Faculty Family Funding Gender Government HIV Infections Health Health Insurance Health Personnel Health Promotion Health Services Accessibility Health Status Healthcare Systems Hispanics Immigrant Incidence Individual Infant Mortality Information Dissemination Intervention Island Knowledge Lead Literature Location Malignant Neoplasms Mental Health Mental disorders Mentors National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Nursing Faculty Patients Population Poverty Prevalence Prevention Progress Reports Provider Public Policy Race Recording of previous events Reporting Research Research Design Research Infrastructure Research Priority Research Project Grants Research Training Resources Risk Factors Services Socioeconomic Status Stroke Students Subgroup Substance abuse problem System Testing Translational Research United States National Center for Health Statistics United States Virgin Islands Violence demographics design ethnic minority population experience falls health disparity hypertensive heart disease improved innovation meetings population based

项目摘要

The long term objective of this application is to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities in the U. S. Virgin Islands. The Division of Nursing, University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) proposes to establish The Caribbean EXPLORATORY Center for Research ans Education on Health Disparities (CaRE-HD) in the U. S. Virgin Islands. The specific aims of the Exploratory Center are to: 1)provide the administrative structure, coordination and resources to facilitate cohesive functioning of the Center for research and education on health disparities; 2)expand the initial efforts of the Caribbean EXPORT Center for Research and Education on Health Disparities; 3)strengthen the research preparation and expertise of members of the UVI faculty, students and community in health disparities research; 4)enable academic, institutional and community partners to evaluate interventions designed to improve the health of Virgin Islanders. A very sparse literature suggests that residents of the U. S. Virgin Islands are burdened with the same health disparities identified in health disparity populations on the mainland U. S. Few studies have described factors that might be associated with reported prevalence rates for health disparities in the territory. The population of the U.S. Virgin Islands, while multicultural and diverse, is 76% black (African American, Afro Caribbean), 10% white, and 14% Hispanic. Access to care, lack of health insurance, low levels of education, high levels of poverty and a growing immigrant population may represent significant barriers to health care, health promotion and prevention activities in the Virgin Islands. The proposed exploratory research center will provide opportunities for a concerted focus on these complex variables as well as the unique intersections of island history, context, culture, demographics, socioeconomic status and other factors that might contirbute to health disparities within the islands. Four continuing pilot studies and abstracts for 7 proposed pilot studies and one full study on health disparities are included in this application. The Division of Nursing, University of he Virgin Islands, is the only program in the territory offering a degree in one of the health professions, and s uniquely suited to continue this highly significant public health imperative in the region underrepresented in health disparities research.

本应用程序的长期目标是减少和最终消除了美国维尔京群岛的健康差异。护理系，大学维尔京群岛（UVI）建议建立加勒比海探索性研究中心美国维尔京群岛的健康差异教育（Care-HD）。特定目标探索中心是：1）提供行政结构，协调和资源促进健康差异研究和教育中心的凝聚力运作； 2）扩展加勒比海研究和健康差异研究中心的最初努力； 3）加强UVI教师，学生和健康差异研究社区； 4）使学术，机构和社区合作伙伴能够评估旨在改善维尔京岛人健康的干预措施。非常稀疏的文学表明美国维尔京群岛的居民承受着相同的健康差异在美国大陆的健康差异人群中确定可能与该领土健康差异的发生率有关。人口美国维尔京群岛虽然多元文化和多样化，但是76％的黑人（非裔美国人，非洲裔，非洲裔加勒比海），白色10％和14％的西班牙裔。获得护理，缺乏健康保险，低水平教育，高水平的贫困和不断增长的移民人口可能代表重大障碍为维尔京群岛的医疗保健，促进健康和预防活动。提议探索性研究中心将为这些复杂变量的一致关注提供机会以及岛屿历史，背景，文化，人口统计学，社会经济的独特交集身份和其他可能限制岛屿健康差异的因素。四个继续试点研究和摘要，用于7项提议的试点研究以及一项关于健康差异的完整研究包含在此应用程序中。维尔京群岛大学护理部是唯一的计划在卫生专业之一的领土上，非常适合继续这一点在健康差异研究中，该地区的公共卫生势必不足。