Community Outreach and Engagement COE

社区外展和参与：摘要 社区外展和参与（COE）工作是堪萨斯大学癌症中心的核心 （KUCC）实现其使命，以减少癌症负担在我们的集水区（CA）。COE由罗纳德领导 Chen，MD，MPH，健康公平副主任，并由CA指导委员会指导， 包括KUCC领导人和社区利益相关者。希望Krebill，MSW，BSN，RN，担任助理 负责实施特遣队所属装备的共济会癌症联盟外联主任兼执行主任 整个CA的活动。KUCC CA由堪萨斯州和密苏里州西部的18个县组成， 共有123个县，450万人口; 78%的县和25%的人口是农村。目标1：确定， 监测和评估癌症负担和需求，以及KUCC的影响，在CA。KUCC开发了 一个名为OPTIK（Organize and Prioritize Trends to Inform KUCC）的数据库，用于监测癌症 CA的发病率、死亡率、筛查和风险行为。这些数据由KUCC审查 社区咨询委员会和CA指导委员会。KUCC选择CA指导的优先事项 委员会和社区咨询委员会的投入，其中包括：肥胖，烟草相关的癌症，前列腺 癌症、乳腺癌、胃肠癌和血液癌症。还有一个重点是 农村病人的情况。目标2：让利益相关者参与促进癌症研究， 控制活动。COE与广泛的基础架构配合使用， KUCC和不同的利益相关者，包括患者，临床提供者和整个CA的医院， 帮助KUCC确定癌症研究和控制活动的优先事项，并在这些活动中进行合作， 影响整个集水区的个人。目标3：促进针对高度优先事项的研究 癌症和与CA特别相关的问题，并在社区利益相关者的指导下， 改善卫生公平性。COE在激励和支持KUCC研究方面发挥着关键作用， 重要途径：1）通过与社区成员的双向沟通，定义KUCC 优先领域，并将这些优先事项传达给KUCC项目负责人和成员， 2）通过促进KUCC研究人员之间的合作， 社区合作者，并培训社区参与研究的研究人员; 3）继续推动 KUCC努力关注CA农村癌症患者的独特需求; 4）通过创建和 在整个CA中为可用于研究的基础设施提供运营支持。目标4：开车， 传播和推行癌症控制活动和政策，以减轻癌症在加州的负担， 与社区利益相关者合作。这些活动包括癌症筛查、 循证干预、公共教育、支持社区癌症中心和影响健康 政策详细的评价框架和今后的方向将加强与这些具体目标有关的努力。

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT: ABSTRACT Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) efforts are central to The University of Kansas Cancer Center (KUCC) achieving its mission to reduce the cancer burden in our catchment area (CA). COE is led by Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, Associate Director for Health Equity, and guided by the CA Steering Committee which includes KUCC leaders and community stakeholders. Hope Krebill, MSW, BSN, RN, serves as Assistant Director for Outreach and Executive Director of the Masonic Cancer Alliance (MCA), which implements COE activities throughout the CA. The KUCC CA consists of the state of Kansas and 18 counties in western Missouri, a total of 123 counties and 4.5M population; 78% of counties and 25% of population are rural. Aim 1: Identify, monitor, and evaluate the cancer burden and needs, and KUCC impact, in the CA. KUCC has developed a database called OPTIK (Organize and Prioritize Trends to Inform KUCC), which is used to monitor cancer incidence, mortality, screening, and risk behaviors in the CA. These data are reviewed by the KUCC Community Advisory Board and the CA Steering Committee. KUCC selected priorities with the CA Steering Committee and Community Advisory Board input, which are: obesity, tobacco-related cancers, prostate cancer, breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancers, and hematological cancers. There is an additional focus on rural patients given the make-up of our CA. Aim 2: Engage stakeholders to stimulate cancer research and control activities. COE works with an extensive infrastructure creating bi-directional communication between KUCC and diverse stakeholders including patients, clinical providers, and hospitals throughout the CA, which helps KUCC set priorities for cancer research and control activities, and also collaborate in these activities to affect individuals throughout the catchment area. Aim 3: Catalyze research that addresses high-priority cancers and issues specifically relevant to the CA and as guided by community stakeholders to improve health equity. COE plays a critical role in stimulating and supporting KUCC research in four important ways: 1) By facilitating bi-directional communication with community members to define KUCC priority areas and communicating these priorities to KUCC program leaders and members in order to focus research activities toward these priorities; 2) by fostering collaborations between KUCC researchers and community collaborators, and training researchers on community-engaged research; 3) by driving continued efforts for KUCC to focus on the unique needs of rural cancer patients in the CA; and 4) by creating and operationally supporting an infrastructure throughout the CA that can be leveraged for research. Aim 4: Drive, disseminate and implement cancer control activities and policies to reduce cancer burden in the CA in collaboration with community stakeholders. These activities include cancer screenings, implementation of evidence-based interventions, public education, supporting community cancer centers, and influencing health policy. A detailed evaluation framework and future directions will enhance efforts related to these specific aims.