Inequities in African American Environmental Contexts for Obesity Prevention

非裔美国人预防肥胖的环境不平等

• 批准号: 7916145
• 负责人: SHIRIKI K KUMANYIKA
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7916145
• 关键词: Action Research; Address; Affect; African American; American; Beverages; Cardiovascular Diseases; Communities; Community Actions; Community Developments; Economics; Educational workshop; Environment; Exercise; Food; Goals; Internet; Journals; Learning; Link; Marketing; Modeling; Obesity; Outcome; Participant; Perception; Physical activity; Policies; Policy Maker; Process; Public Health Education; Public Policy; Relative (related person); Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Social Change; Social Justice; Translational Research; United States National Institutes of Health; Vision; Weight; Work; base; community based participatory research; cost; health disparity; improved; interest; lens; nutrition; obesity prevention; racial and ethnic disparities; response; social; success; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to PA-08-149, this R13 application requests support for a scientific workshop focusing on social inequities in environmental determinants of obesity in African Americans that can be addressed through community-based participatory research (CBPR). The inequities of interest relate to the well-documented excess availability and promotion of unhealthful vs. more healthful foods and beverages and relative lack of access to safe and affordable options for physical activity in African American communities. This focus directly addresses NIH strategic goals for elimination of racial/ethnic disparities in obesity and cardiovascular diseases. The workshop will be convened under the auspices of the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN). AACORN links scholars, researchers and community-based research partners nationally in efforts to increase the quality, quantity, and effective translation of research to address weight issues in African American communities. The requested support would cover partial costs of a 2 1/2 day national workshop with 100 invited participants. Framing and content will approach the issue of obesity prevention in African American communities through a social justice lens. Objectives are to: 1) obtain a broad overview of how environmental inequities affecting African Americans have been successfully addressed through policy, community action, and social change, on issues other than those directly related to obesity; 2) identify recent or current successes or promising work-in-progress in addressing inequities in the food and activity environments of African Americans; 3) highlight current research documenting and understanding community perceptions of inequities in food and beverage marketing practices and strategies for addressing them; 4) draft a model vision and research/action plan for improving food and physical activity environments of African Americans; and 5) initiate a process for implementing this action plan with national and local African American community stakeholders. This workshop will engage academic scholars and scholars- in-training from public health, nutrition and food studies, exercise science, public policy, community development, marketing, economics, and other fields as well as community partners and policy makers. Building on successes and lessons learned from the three previous AACORN national invited workshops, held in 2004, 2006, and 2008, the Network will utilize a new workshop format in 2010: a dialogical conference model will be implemented in order to prioritize and create spaces for discourse and intellectual exchange. Workshop outcomes will be disseminated through the internet, academic journals, and other channels. Inequities in the availability and promotion of healthful vs. unhealthful foods and beverages and in access to safe and affordable options for physical activity in African American communities are well-documented. These inequities limit the ability to eliminate health disparities related to obesity. A scientific workshop that brings together diverse scholars, community partners, and policy makers can generate research and action strategies to address these inequities.

描述（由申请人提供）：为了回应 PA-08-149，此 R13 申请请求支持举办一个科学研讨会，重点关注非裔美国人肥胖的环境决定因素中的社会不平等问题，这些问题可以通过基于社区的参与性研究 (CBPR) 来解决。利益不平等与有据可查的不健康食品和饮料与更健康食品和饮料的过度供应和促销以及非裔美国人社区相对缺乏安全且负担得起的体育活动选择有关。这一重点直接涉及 NIH 消除肥胖和心血管疾病方面的种族/民族差异的战略目标。该研讨会将在非裔美国人肥胖协作研究网络 (AACORN) 的赞助下召开。 AACORN 将全国范围内的学者、研究人员和社区研究合作伙伴联系起来，努力提高研究的质量、数量和有效转化，以解决非裔美国人社区的体重问题。所请求的支持将支付为期 2 1/2 天、有 100 名受邀参加者的全国研讨会的部分费用。框架和内容将通过社会正义的视角来解决非裔美国人社区的肥胖预防问题。目标是： 1) 全面了解如何通过政策、社区行动和社会变革成功解决影响非裔美国人的环境不平等问题，而不是与肥胖直接相关的问题； 2) 确定最近或当前在解决非裔美国人食品和活动环境不平等问题方面取得的成功或有前景的正在进行的工作； 3) 强调当前的研究记录和理解社区对食品和饮料营销实践中的不平等的看法以及解决这些问题的策略； 4) 起草改善非裔美国人食物和身体活动环境的示范愿景和研究/行动计划； 5) 与国家和当地非裔美国人社区利益相关者启动实施该行动计划的流程。本次研讨会将邀请来自公共卫生、营养和食品研究、运动科学、公共政策、社区发展、营销、经济学等领域的学术学者和实习学者以及社区合作伙伴和政策制定者。基于 2004 年、2006 年和 2008 年举办的三届 AACORN 国家特邀研讨会的成功经验和经验教训，该网络将在 2010 年采用新的研讨会形式：将实施对话式会议模式，以便确定优先顺序并为以下领域创造空间：话语和知识交流。研讨会成果将通过互联网、学术期刊等渠道传播。在非裔美国人社区中，健康与不健康食品和饮料的供应和推广以及获得安全且负担得起的体育活动选择方面的不平等是有据可查的。这些不平等限制了消除与肥胖相关的健康差异的能力。汇集不同学者、社区合作伙伴和政策制定者的科学研讨会可以制定解决这些不平等问题的研究和行动策略。