Mid-South Trandisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research

中南跨学科健康差异研究合作中心

• 批准号: 8892851
• 负责人: MONA N. FOUAD
• 金额: $ 37.64万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8892851
• 关键词: Address; African American; Alabama; Area; Arkansas; Automobile Driving; Biostatistics Core; Chronic Disease; Communities; County; Economics; Environmental Risk Factor; Geographic Locations; Goals; Health; Intervention; Kentucky; Life Cycle Stages; Longevity; Louisiana; Measurement; Minority; Mississippi; Obesity; Outcome; Outreach Research; Pathway interactions; Persons; Phase; Pilot Projects; Policies; Population; Procedures; Research; Research Design; Research Infrastructure; Research Project Grants; Rural; Tennessee; TimeLine; Universities; burden of illness; career development; experience; health disparity; implementation research; inner city; mortality; programs; social; social health determinants; socioeconomics

The Mid-South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center for Health Disparities Research (Mid-South TCC), proposed by the University of Alabama at Birmingham, seeks to reduce the disparities in chronic disease burden experienced by African Americans in three Mid-South states (Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi), expand to another three Mid-South states (Arkansas, Tennessee, and Kentucky) and then nationally. The targeted Mid-South geographic area includes the most impoverished rural counties and inner-city communities in the nation, carrying exceptionally high burden of obesity, chronic diseases, and high mortality rates from these conditions. Our goal is to address the social determinants that interplay to impact a person's health and produce disparate health outcomes of minority populations. Specifically, we will focus on pathways to obesity and chronic illness and the mechanisms connecting these pathways to health disparities throughout the life-course. Our ultimate goal as a Mid-South TCC is to investigate all social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors driving and sustaining health disparities in obesity and chronic illnesses across the lifespan, and develop and implement interventions to ameliorate such disparities. This goal will be achieved through the following specific aims: Aim 1. Conduct a one-year planning phase to: Solidify and expand the existing multi-sector Mid-South coalition in order to establish a regional infrastructure that will support the proposed research, implementation, and dissemination activities; Conduct a comprehensive assessment to identify existing relevant research, outreach capacities, policies and socioeconomic contexts, as well as barriers and needs unique to the targeted areas and population; Engage additional academic, community, and organizational/institutional partners and agencies to fill identified gaps; Identify areas of research to be developed and finalize procedures for pilot research projects; Develop a detailed plan and timelines for the program implementation. Aim 2. Develop and implement a collaborative research program of regional research sub-projects; Establish 3 shared cores to support all Mid-South TCC research: Social Determinants of Health Measurement Core, Biostatistics/Study Design Core, and Academic-Community Engagement Core. Aim 4. Implement a pilot project program, including a career development component; Aim 5. Evaluate the research, implementation, and dissemination activities of the TCC.

中南跨学科健康差异研究合作中心（中南 TCC）由阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校提出，旨在减少中南三个州（阿拉巴马州、路易斯安那州）非洲裔美国人所经历的慢性疾病负担的差异和密西西比州），扩展到另外三个中南州（阿肯色州、田纳西州和肯塔基州），然后扩展到全国。目标中南地理区域包括全国最贫困的农村县和市中心社区，肥胖、慢性病和这些疾病造成的死亡率极高。我们的目标是解决相互作用影响个人健康并给少数群体带来不同健康结果的社会决定因素。具体来说，我们将重点关注肥胖和慢性疾病的途径以及将这些途径与整个生命周期的健康差异联系起来的机制。作为中南 TCC，我们的最终目标是调查导致和维持一生中肥胖和慢性病健康差异的所有社会、经济、文化和环境因素，并制定和实施干预措施来改善这种差异。这一目标将通过以下具体目标来实现： 目标 1. 进行为期一年的规划阶段，以： 巩固和扩大现有的多部门中南联盟，以建立支持拟议研究、实施的区域基础设施和传播活动；进行全面评估，以确定现有的相关研究、外展能力、政策和社会经济背景，以及目标地区和人群特有的障碍和需求；让更多的学术、社区和组织/机构合作伙伴和机构参与进来，以填补已发现的空白；确定有待开发的研究领域并最终确定试点研究项目的程序；制定计划实施的详细计划和时间表。目标 2. 制定并实施合作研究计划 区域研究子项目；建立 3 个共享核心来支持所有中南 TCC 研究：健康测量社会决定因素核心、生物统计学/研究设计核心和学术社区参与核心。目标 4. 实施试点项目计划，包括职业发展部分；目标 5. 评估 TCC 的研究、实施和传播活动。