Science and Community: Ending Obesity Improving Health

科学与社区：结束肥胖改善健康

• 批准号: 7799589
• 负责人: Rebecca Elizabeth Lee
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-18 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7799589
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity has been recognized as an epidemic, placing a huge burden on the health of the public and the national economy. National data suggest that the trend continues, despite broad-based public health messages to reduce obesity, and populations of color are particularly vulnerable. Although most cases of obesity are attributed to lifestyle habits, traditional behavior change programs have had little sustainability, in part attributable to ecologic factors external to the individual, grounded in environment, policy, cultural or social origins. Obesity occurs as part of a complex system representing failures at multiple levels of the ecologic milieu; thus, simply enrolling the obese in weight loss programs is insufficient for sustainable weight loss. Partnerships between scientists and communities to accommodate and include community ecologic factors may offer greater success and sustainability compared to traditional, individually-focused programs. This project aims to capitalize on the unique opportunities presented in communities in the City of Houston to develop a partnership to promote sustainable obesity reduction via shared vision, community outreach and education with the final goal of developing a proposal for submission for NIH funding. Houston is an incredibly diverse, large population center with the uncomfortable distinction of being listed as one of America's Top 10 Fattest Cities for the last five years. Aims will be completed via numerous interactive meetings, workshops, symposia and conferences to establish an academic-community partnership, identify community-research priorities, and develop a long-term collaborative agenda, focusing on the problem of obesity across the lifespan with particular attention to children and women. The partnership will use the Texas Obesity Research Center (TORC) in the Department of Health and Human Performance at the University of Houston (UH) as a framework organization to support the partnership and agenda, and rely on longstanding community ties of community members to the TORC and the UH. It is expected that this project will provide a forum for the development of a community partnership structure that will support an eventual community based participatory research (CBPR) project and will facilitate culturally centered community partnership with a focus on addressing and eliminating health disparities. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Approximately 280,000 deaths and $117 billion in medical expenses are attributed to obesity and obesity-related conditions each year and there is no known sustainable solution. Engaging community members, employing local knowledge, and investing community members from the most vulnerable communities, in the process of research to tackle this health problem through CBPR is highly significant to public health.

描述（由申请人提供）：肥胖已被认为是一种流行病，给公众健康和国民经济带来了巨大负担。 国家数据表明，尽管减少肥胖的公共卫生信息广泛，但这一趋势仍在继续，有色人种尤其容易受到影响。 尽管大多数肥胖病例归因于生活习惯，但传统的行为改变计划几乎没有可持续性，部分原因在于个人外部的生态因素，这些因素植根于环境、政策、文化或社会根源。肥胖是一个复杂系统的一部分，代表了生态环境多个层面的失败；因此，仅仅将肥胖者纳入减肥计划不足以实现可持续减肥。与传统的、以个人为中心的计划相比，科学家和社区之间的伙伴关系，以适应和纳入社区生态因素，可能会取得更大的成功和可持续性。该项目旨在利用休斯顿市社区提供的独特机会建立伙伴关系，通过共同愿景、社区外展和教育来促进可持续肥胖减少，最终目标是制定一份提交 NIH 资助的提案。休斯顿是一个极其多元化的大型人口中心，在过去五年中被列为美国十大最肥胖城市之一，这一殊荣令人不安。 目标将通过众多互动会议、讲习班、专题讨论会和会议来完成，以建立学术界伙伴关系，确定社区研究优先事项，并制定长期合作议程，重点关注整个生命周期的肥胖问题，特别关注儿童和妇女。该伙伴关系将利用休斯敦大学 (UH) 健康与人类表现系的德克萨斯肥胖研究中心 (TORC) 作为支持伙伴关系和议程的框架组织，并依靠社区成员与TORC 和呃。预计该项目将为社区伙伴关系结构的发展提供一个论坛，该结构将支持最终的基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）项目，并将促进以文化为中心的社区伙伴关系，重点关注解决和消除健康差异。 公共卫生相关性：每年约有 280,000 人死亡和 1,170 亿美元的医疗费用归因于肥胖和肥胖相关疾病，并且没有已知的可持续解决方案。在通过 CBPR 解决这一健康问题的研究过程中，让社区成员参与进来，运用当地知识，并投资来自最脆弱社区的社区成员，这对公共卫生非常重要。