Exploratory Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities in Smaller Cities

少数民族健康和小城市健康差异探索中心

• 批准号: 7668852
• 负责人: LAWRENCE M SCHELL
• 金额: $ 139.86万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-04 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7668852
• 关键词: Exploratory; Center; Minority; Health; Disparities

DESCRIPTION: The fundamental basis for the proposed work is that minority communities in smaller cities and towns differ in important ways from those in very large cities, and these differences influence both the character of health disparities, as well as the solutions to eliminate them. The Exploratory Center on Minority Health and Disparities in Smaller Cities will support researchers from multiple disciplines to perform research with community partners to understand the multiple determinants of health disparities in smaller cities, and, by working with community groups, it will test programs to reduce barriers, and improve utilization and health. Thus, the Center's focus is not on one specific disease, but on the problems of health disparity characterizing smaller cities. The Center will conduct three research projects one with a local African American community to improve the use of reproductive health care services, another with a Native American community concerned with health effects of local contamination of the food supply, and a third that pools data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System over a 14 year period from all participating states to describe the relationship of race, ethnicity and measures of socioeconomic status with health status. These projects expand the Center beyond its original geographic focus on Albany and Amsterdam, NY, while retaining its conceptual focus on minority health disparities in smaller cities. The Center also will support and enhance research on health disparities by other university researchers, and thus develop greater understanding of, and more solutions to health disparity. It will expose undergraduate and graduate students to research on minority health disparities, and enhance their opportunities to pursue this research professionally. In addition, the Center will provide untenured faculty with training on health disparities and partnership research methods enabling them to obtain research support. As part of its research training and community partnership, the Center will disseminate health care information, and integrate research findings into educational outreach materials for community members that are culturally and linguistically appropriate and relevant. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Minority health disparities are a major impediment to achieving the Healthy 2010 goals. This Center will focus on health disparities in smaller cities and towns, an understudied component of the problem. It will conduct research, and train students and researchers in minority health disparities, thereby enhancing our capacity to implement solutions that will improve minority health and eliminate disparity.

描述：拟议工作的基本依据是，较小城镇的少数民族社区在重要方面有所不同与大城市的少数群体不同，这些差异既影响健康差异的特征，也影响了消除它们的解决方案。较小城市的少数群体健康和差异的探索中心将支持来自多个学科的研究人员与社区合作伙伴进行研究，以了解较小城市中健康差异的多个决定因素，并且通过与社区团体合作，它将测试以减少障碍，改善利用率和健康的计划。因此，该中心的重点不是一种特定疾病，而是针对较小城市的健康差异的问题。该中心将与当地的非裔美国人社区进行三项研究项目，以改善生殖保健服务的使用，另一个与美国原住民社区有关的粮食供应局部污染的健康效应，而第三个是在所有参与国家中从14年中的行为风险因素监视系统中汇集的数据，以描述种族，种族，种族，社会经济状况与健康状况的关系。这些项目将中心扩展到其最初对纽约州奥尔巴尼和阿姆斯特丹的最初地理位置之外，同时将其概念重点放在较小城市的少数族裔健康差异上。该中心还将支持和增强其他大学研究人员对健康差异的研究，从而对健康差异的更多理解以及更多的解决方案。它将揭示本科生和研究生对少数民族健康差异的研究，并增强他们专业从事这项研究的机会。此外，该中心将为不稳定的教师提供有关健康差异和伙伴关系研究方法的培训，使他们能够获得研究支持。作为其研究培训和社区伙伴关系的一部分，该中心将传播医疗保健信息，并将研究结果纳入教育外展材料中，为在文化和语言上适当且相关的社区成员提供教育外展材料。公共卫生相关性：少数族裔健康差异是实现2010年健康目标的主要障碍。该中心将重点关注较小城市和城镇的健康差异，这是该问题的研究。它将进行研究，并培训学生和研究人员的少数民族健康差异，从而增强我们实施解决方案的能力，以改善少数民族健康并消除差异。