Establishing centers to address treatment effectiveness in diverse ethnic groups: the MEDTEP experience.
Establishing centers to address treatment effectiveness in diverse ethnic groups: the MEDTEP experience.
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建立中心以解决不同种族群体的治疗效果：MEDTEP 经验。
DOI：
10.1080/1355785022000060691
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发表时间：
2002
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Perez-Stable,EliseoJ
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作者：
Washington,AEugene;Napoles-Springer,Anna;Forte,DeirdraA;Alexander,Mark;Perez-Stable,EliseoJ
目的探讨通过更有效地提供卫生保健服务可以改善健康结果的种族、民族和社会经济差异。少数民族人口研究中心是美国的一组中心，旨在提高医疗诊断和治疗的有效性，为少数民族健康研究人员提供技术援助，培训新的研究人员，传播信息以帮助少数族裔患者及其医疗保健提供者。结果中心经常提供许多与评估健康结果差异程度以及消除这些结果的方法相关的具体发现。这些中心能够利用现在被界定为基于社区的参与性研究的方法建立社区伙伴关系。中心改变了其机构的文化，让他们更加意识到需要培训多元化的调查人员并采取更多措施消除健康差异。结论中心成功的关键是统一一支致力于指导的忠诚调查人员队伍。少数民族健康研究人员和消除健康方面的种族和社会经济差异。MEDTEP中心提供了一个模式，但仍需要继续开展工作。
ObjectiveTo investigate racial ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes amenable to improvement through more effective delivery of health care services.DesignThe Medical Treatment Effectiveness Program (MEDTEP) Research Centers on Minority Populations were a group of centers in the USA funded to improve the effectiveness of medical diagnosis and treatment to provide technical assistance to ethnic minority health researchers to train new researchers and to disseminate information to help ethnic minority patients and their health care providers.ResultsCenters often provided many specific findings related to assessment of the magnitude of disparities in health outcomes and to approaches for eliminating these outcomes. The Centers were able to build community partnerships using an approach now defined as community-based participatory research. Centers changed the culture of their institutions by making them more aware of the need to train diverse investigators and do more to eliminate health disparities.ConclusionsA key to the success of the Centers has been the unification of a cadre of committed investigators dedicated to the mentoring of minority health researchers and to the elimination of ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health. The MEDTEP Centers provide a model but there remains a need for continued work.