Academic-Community Partnership to Reduce Health Disparities in Infant Mortality

学术界与社区合作减少婴儿死亡率的健康差异

• 批准号: 8409762
• 负责人: M Kathryn Menard
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8409762
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; African American; Applications Grants; Area; Award; Behavioral; Birth; Budgets; Caring; Caucasians; Caucasoid Race; Child; Collaborations; Communities; Complex; Congenital Abnormality; Country; Data; Discipline; Evaluation; Evidence based intervention; Evidence based practice; Family; Funding; Goals; Group Practice; Health Personnel; Individual; Infant; Infant Health; Infant Mortality; Institution; Low income; Maternal Health; Medical; Methods; Mothers; North Carolina; Outcome; Patients; Perinatal; Perinatal Care; Plague; Postnatal Care; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Outcome; Premature Birth; Premature Infant; Prenatal care; Prevention; Provider; Public Health; Research; Research Priority; Risk; Risk Factors; Seasons; Secure; Services; Testing; Unplanned pregnancy; Woman; Work; base; community based participatory research; community organizations; community setting; comparative effectiveness; disability; dissemination research; empowered; evidence base; follow-up; health disparity; improved; infant death; infant outcome; meetings; neonatal death; outreach; outreach program; premature; prenatal; prevent; programs; public health relevance; satisfaction; symposium; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): North Carolina has among the highest rates of prematurity and infant mortality in the country. The impact of preterm birth and infant death on African-American families is significant, with a greater than two-fold disparity in birth outcomes when compared to Caucasian families. While some scientific questions about how to prevent infant mortality remain to be answered, there are numerous evidence-based strategies that if employed before, during and after pregnancy would improve birth outcomes. North Carolina has many community, state and academic organizations that provide information as well as practice tools to healthcare providers to promote healthy pregnancies. For the past several years, the Center for Maternal and Infant Health at UNC has offered opportunities for providers and practice groups to meet each other and share concerns, research goals, and practice improvements. However, lack of research on dissemination and programmatic evaluation has made such outreach programs vulnerable during budget reductions. Further, these outreach efforts have not as yet included the lay community which is crucial for identifying barriers at the community and individual level. We propose to use the Academic-Community Conference Award to develop a statewide perinatal network that is built on the principles of community-based participatory research and will unite disciplines, academic and community care settings, and communities and families to help lower infant mortality and reduce health disparities. One initial goal is to test different dissemination methods that will improve evidence-based perinatal care in North Carolina and be congruent with community values and priorities. In addition, this new forum will create a long-term agenda, a robust network with an Advisory Board, and sustainable efforts in obtaining funding for our work.

描述（由申请人提供）：北卡罗来纳州是全国早产率和婴儿死亡率最高的州之一。早产和婴儿死亡对非裔美国家庭的影响很大，与白人家庭相比，其出生结果的差异大于两倍。虽然有关如何预防婴儿死亡的一些科学问题仍有待解答，但有许多基于证据的策略，如果在怀孕前、怀孕期间和怀孕后采用，将改善出生结果。北卡罗来纳州有许多社区、州和学术组织，为医疗保健提供者提供信息和实践工具，以促进健康怀孕。在过去的几年中，北卡罗来纳大学母婴健康中心为提供者和实践团体提供了相互见面并分享关注点、研究目标和实践改进的机会。然而，缺乏对传播和计划评估的研究使得此类外展计划在预算削减期间变得脆弱。此外，这些外展工作尚未包括非专业社区，这对于识别社区和个人层面的障碍至关重要。我们建议利用学术界会议奖来建立一个全州范围的围产期网络，该网络建立在基于社区的参与性研究的原则之上，并将联合学科、学术和社区护理机构以及社区和家庭，以帮助降低婴儿死亡率并减少死亡率。健康差异。最初的目标是测试不同的传播方法，以改善北卡罗来纳州循证的围产期护理，并与社区价值观和优先事项保持一致。此外，这个新论坛将制定一个长期议程、一个由顾问委员会组成的强大网络，以及为我们的工作获取资金的可持续努力。