Developing strategies for reducing cancer disparities via cross-institutional collaboration: outreach efforts for the partnership between the Ponce School of Medicine and the Moffitt Cancer Center.
Developing strategies for reducing cancer disparities via cross-institutional collaboration: outreach efforts for the partnership between the Ponce School of Medicine and the Moffitt Cancer Center.
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DOI：
10.1177/1524839911404227
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发表时间：
2012-11
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Quinn GP
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作者：
Gwede CK;Castro E;Brandon TH;McIntyre J;Meade CD;Munoz-Antonia T;Simmons VN;Vadaparampil ST;Jimenez J;Quinn GP
美国西班牙裔的癌症负担不成比例，这是有据可查的。从历史上看，美国西班牙裔和癌症的流行病学数据将所有西班牙裔聚集为一个同质群体，而没有考虑到这一人群在出生地（国籍/地理起源）方面的多样性。作者报告了一家少数族裔服务机构和国家癌症研究所指定的癌症中心之间为解决波多黎各和佛罗里达州两个西班牙裔社区的癌症健康差异而建立的学术机构合作伙伴关系的初步努力。本文概述了联合外展计划在社区外展、癌症教育和研究方面的初步合作战略和活动，这些战略和活动使庞塞（波多黎各）和坦帕（佛罗里达）西班牙裔社区互惠互利。该合作伙伴计划在两个社区采用了创新的多管齐下的社区参与策略，以减少癌症健康差异。讨论了具体项目以及从三个外展/癌症教育项目和两个试点研究项目中汲取的经验教训。总结了在资源和基础设施水平不同的社区中平衡服务和研究议程的挑战，为该伙伴关系中的未来举措提供信息，并为类似的少数族裔服务机构/癌症中心伙伴关系提供范例，以减少癌症健康差异。
The disproportionate burden of cancer among U.S. Hispanics is well documented. Historically, epidemiologic data on U.S. Hispanics and cancer have aggregated all Hispanics as one homogeneous group without appreciating the diversity of this population with regard to nativity (nationality/geographic origin). The authors report on the initial efforts of a collaborative academic institutional partnership between a minority-serving institution and a National Cancer Institute–designated cancer center to address cancer health disparities in two Hispanic communities in Puerto Rico and Florida. This article outlines the joint Outreach Program’s initial collaborative strategies and activities in community outreach, cancer education, and research that mutually benefit both the Ponce (Puerto Rico) and Tampa (Florida) Hispanic communities. This partnership program used innovative multipronged community-engagement strategies in the two communities to reduce cancer health disparities. Specific projects and lessons learned from three outreach/cancer education projects and two pilot research projects are discussed. The challenges of balancing service and research agendas in communities with disparate levels of resources and infrastructure are summarized to inform future initiatives in this partnership, as well as serve as an example for similar minority-serving institution/cancer center partnerships to reduce cancer health disparities.