COMMUNITY OUTREACH MODEL FOR CANCER CONTROL

描述：(申请者的描述)建议的教育项目 将是一项为期三年的综合社区外展教育计划 旨在增加初级保健提供者和 社区居民在最先进的癌症预防、早期发现、 和治疗活动。该计划将基于总体 持续提供的外展教育的结构 维克森林大学综合癌症中心。它将被执行 在两个皮德蒙特肿瘤协会社区，安德森和斯帕坦堡 南卡罗来纳州的各县。该计划将包括两个阶段，一个 社区分析，然后是教育方案的实施。 社区分析将包括老年人的人口特征 社区，卫生保健系统分析，初级保健提供者 需求评估调查，并成立一个社区咨询委员会， 将监督社区中的计划活动。教育项目 有两个主要组成部分，肿瘤学社区领袖和LAY的使用 社区领袖作为社区癌症教育的倡导者。教育 将面向社区和组织领导人，目标是 培训他们及早传播有关癌症预防的信息 对社区居民进行检测、治疗。初级保健提供者 将在继续医疗中获得关于癌症控制的信息 教育形式，使用肿瘤学社区领袖来协调 努力。针对社区领导人和提供者的教育计划 将针对四种癌症，这些癌症在以下方面是最重要的 发病率、发病率和/或死亡率：结肠、乳腺、前列腺和皮肤 癌症。要强调的其他主题或癌症地点将是 在社区分析过程中发现的。拟议中的计划将测试一个 结合最佳元素的社区癌症控制外展模式 提供者和公共教育，这建立了一种沟通 获取新的癌症控制信息的网络。这是一个计划， 具有成本效益，随着时间的推移是可持续的，这是设计为 社区的所有成员都可以访问。如果成功，它将成为 一个类似社区癌症控制的模型。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Description) The proposed educational program will be a comprehensive three-year community outreach education program designed to increase participation of both primary-care providers and community residents in state-of-the-art cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment activities. The program will be based on the overall structure of outreach education provided on an ongoing basis by the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University. It will be conducted in two Piedmont Oncology Association communities, Anderson and Spartanburg Counties in South Carolina. The program will consist of two phases, a community analysis followed by implementation of the educational program. The community analysis will include demographic characteristics of the community, an analysis of the health care system, a primary-care provider needs assessment survey, and formation of a community advisory board that will oversee program activities in the community. The educational program has two major components, the oncology community leader and the use of lay community leaders as community advocates for cancer education. Education will be directed to community and organizational leaders, with the goal of training them to disseminate information about cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment to community residents. Primary-care providers will be given information on cancer control in a Continuing Medical Education format, using the oncology community leader to coordinate this effort. The educational programs for community leaders and for providers will target four cancers that are of primary importance in terms of incidence, morbidity, and/or mortality: colon, breast, prostate, and skin cancer. Additional topics or cancer sites to be emphasized will be identified during the community analysis. The proposed program will test a model of community cancer control outreach that combines the best elements of provider and public education, and that establishes a communications network for obtaining new cancer control information. It is a program that is cost-effective, sustainable over time, and that is designed to be accessible to all members of the community. If successful, it will serve as a model for cancer control in similar communities.