Obesity Health Disparities Research Center (OHDRC)

肥胖健康差异研究中心 (OHDRC)

• 批准号: 9913386
• 负责人: MONA N. FOUAD
• 金额: $ 140.42万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-22 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9913386
• 关键词: Achievement; Address; African American; Age; Alabama; Area; Behavioral; Biological; Centers of Research Excellence; Chronic Disease; Common Data Element; Communities; Complex; Development; Ensure; Evaluation; Evidence based practice; Goals; Health; Individual; Infrastructure; Institutes; Interdisciplinary Study; Intervention; Life Cycle Stages; Measurement; Measures; Mentors; Minority Groups; Minority-Serving Institution; Modeling; Monitor; Obesity; Outcome; Overweight; Process; Program Development; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resource Sharing; System; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Work; burden of illness; career; cost; critical period; design; disparity reduction; experience; health disparity; inner city; innovation; instrument; rural counties; social factors; therapy design

Obesity is among the most prevalent, costly and preventable of health problems. African Americans are 15% more likely to suffer from obesity than Whites and 70% of African Americans between the ages of 18 and 64 are overweight or obese. Obesity also places a disproportionate chronic disease burden on African Americans. Our overall goal is to establish the UAB Obesity Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence (OHDRC) with an ultimate goal of reducing and eliminating disparities in obesity between African Americans and whites. Using Alabama as a model, the OHDRC will support transdisciplinary, multi-level, multi-domain research on obesity- related health disparities to understand the complex contributors to obesity and how they vary at critical periods across the life course and develop interventions to address these contributors. To achieve this goal, we will 1) Conduct innovative interdisciplinary research to understand the complex interactions between biological, behavioral and social factors associated with obesity-related health disparities throughout the life course (two full projects); 2) Partner with the community to inform research and disseminate evidence-based practices designed to result in individual, community and system-level changes to impact obesity-related health disparities. (Academic-Community Engagement and Dissemination Core- ACED); 3) Expand the pipeline of innovative research through an Investigator Development Program of mentored pilot research for early stage investigators. (Investigator Development Core – IDC); and 4) Establish a coordinated infrastructure to support the proposed research, IDC and ACED Cores by: a) implementing a Common Data Elements and Measurement Shared Resource to be used by OHDRC researchers, b) designing career enhancement activities that focus on transdisciplinary obesity health disparities research to prepare independent investigators (especially those from underrepresented minority groups, in partnership with minority serving institutions) for productive careers, and c) instituting a monitoring and evaluation process to ensure achievement of proposed goals. (Administrative Core). Alabama is particularly well-suited as a setting to pursue these aims. It includes some of the most impoverished rural counties and inner-city communities in the nation and, as we will highlight, Alabamians suffer from some of the highest rates of obesity and from some of the most starkly disproportionate outcomes for obesity-related chronic diseases. If our OHDRC proves successful, we will serve as a model for other states facing similar health disparities.

肥胖是非洲裔美国人中最普遍、代价最高且可预防的健康问题之一。 比白人更容易患肥胖症，70% 18 岁至 64 岁之间的非裔美国人 超重或肥胖也给非洲裔美国人带来了不成比例的慢性疾病负担。 总体目标是建立 UAB 肥胖健康差异卓越研究中心 (OHDRC) 最终目标是减少和消除非裔美国人和白人之间的肥胖差异。 阿拉巴马州作为典范，OHDRC 将支持跨学科、多层次、多领域的肥胖研究—— 相关的健康差异，以了解肥胖的复杂因素及其在关键时期的变化 并制定干预措施来解决这些因素。 为了实现这一目标，我们将 1) 进行创新的跨学科研究以了解复杂性 与肥胖相关的健康差异相关的生物、行为和社会因素之间的相互作用 整个生命周期（两个完整项目）；2）与社区合作，为研究提供信息并进行传播； 基于证据的实践旨在导致个人、社区和系统层面的改变以产生影响 与肥胖相关的健康差异（学术社区参与和传播核心-ACED）； 通过指导试点的研究者发展计划扩大创新研究的渠道 早期研究者的研究（研究者发展核心 - IDC）；以及 4) 建立协调一致的机制。 通过以下方式支持拟议研究、IDC 和 ACED 核心的基础设施： a) 实施通用数据 OHDRC 研究人员使用的要素和测量共享资源，b) 设计职业生涯 加强活动，重点关注跨学科肥胖健康差异研究，为 独立调查员（特别是来自代表性不足的少数群体的调查员）与少数群体合作 服务机构）以实现生产性职业，以及 c）建立监测和评估流程以确保 实现拟议目标（行政核心）。 阿拉巴马州特别适合作为实现这些目标的环境，其中包括一些最贫困的人口。 该国的农村县和内城区社区，正如我们将强调的那样，阿拉巴马人患有一些 肥胖率最高，以及一些与肥胖相关的最明显不成比例的结果 如果我们的 OHDRC 取得成功，我们将为其他面临类似健康问题的国家树立榜样。 差异。