COMMUNITY OUTREACH MODEL FOR CANCER CONTROL

描述：（申请人的描述）拟议的教育计划 将是一个为期三年的综合性社区外展教育项目， 旨在提高初级保健提供者和 社区居民在最先进的癌症预防，早期发现， 和治疗活动。 该计划将基于整体 由联合国教育、科学及文化组织持续提供的外联教育结构 维克森林大学综合癌症中心。 它将在 在两个皮埃蒙特肿瘤协会社区，安德森和斯帕坦堡 南卡罗来纳州行政区划 该计划将包括两个阶段， 社区分析，然后实施教育方案。 社区分析将包括 社区，医疗保健系统的分析，初级保健提供者 需求评估调查，并成立社区咨询委员会， 将监督社区的项目活动。 教育计划 有两个主要组成部分，肿瘤学社区领导人和使用外行 社区领导人作为社区倡导者进行癌症教育。 教育 将针对社区和组织领导人，目标是 培训他们传播有关癌症预防的信息， 社区居民的检测和治疗。 初级保健提供者 将在持续医疗中获得有关癌症控制的信息 教育形式，使用肿瘤学社区领导者来协调这一点 努力 为社区领袖和供应商提供的教育计划 将针对四种主要的癌症， 发生率、发病率和/或死亡率：结肠、乳腺、前列腺和皮肤 癌 需要强调的其他主题或癌症部位将是 在社区分析中发现。 该计划将测试一个 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，并建立一个通信 获取新的癌症控制信息。 这是一个程序， 具有成本效益，可持续发展， 社区的所有成员都可以使用。 如果成功，它将成为 为类似社区的癌症控制树立了榜样。

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.