Community Maternal & Child Health-Eastern North Carolina

社区孕产妇

• 批准号: 6786052
• 负责人: John M Thorp
• 金额: $ 17.99万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6786052
• 关键词: African American; case history; clinical research; community health services; cooperative study; data collection methodology /evaluation; disease /disorder prevention /control; geographic site; health care service availability; health disparity; health education; health science research; health services research tag; human ecology; human subject; immunization; infant mortality; information systems; medically underserved population; mother /infant health care; outcomes research; premature infant human; questionnaires; racial /ethnic difference; rural area; socioeconomics; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Maternal and child health disparities in infant mortality, preterm birth, and access to health care persist as important problems in North Carolina, and disproportionately affect people in the predominantly rural Eastern part of the state. The investigations proposed build upon a five-year collaboration among the Eastern NC Baby Love Plus Consortium, the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and the UNC Department of Maternal and Child Health. We propose to increase research and intervention capacity toward understanding and eliminating health disparities in rural North Carolina by developing a community-linked collaboration, and by implementing pilot studies aimed at understanding community influences on maternal, infant, and child health. In this proposal, the collaborative research planning process and its successful implementation are given equal weight in achieving our goals. The formative process includes the development of unique training opportunities for the community partners and other minority investigators to improve community infrastructure for conducting health disparity research and intervention. The process will also provide opportunities for University investigators to increase their networks and competence to work in rural NC communities. Suggested pilot studies aim to formulate collaborative research questions with the community that can be answered through current data collection efforts of the Baby Love Plus Evaluation, and to utilize geographic information systems to explore community socio-environmental context. Ultimately, we present a process for a reasonably paced, systematic development of a full-scale community-partnered multi-level research project.

描述（由申请人提供）：婴儿死亡率、早产和获得医疗保健方面的孕产妇和儿童健康差异仍然是北卡罗来纳州的重要问题，并且对该州以农村为主的东部地区的人们影响尤为严重。拟议的调查建立在北卡罗来纳州东部婴儿爱联盟、北卡罗来纳大学塞西尔·G·谢普斯卫生服务研究中心和北卡罗来纳大学妇幼健康部之间为期五年的合作基础上。我们建议通过开展与社区相关的合作以及实施旨在了解社区对孕产妇、婴儿和儿童健康影响的试点研究，提高研究和干预能力，以了解和消除北卡罗来纳州农村地区的健康差异。在该提案中，合作研究规划过程及其成功实施在实现我们的目标方面受到同等重视。形成过程包括为社区合作伙伴和其他少数族裔调查人员开发独特的培训机会，以改善社区基础设施，以进行健康差异研究和干预。该过程还将为大学研究人员提供机会，以扩大他们在北卡罗来纳州农村社区的网络和工作能力。建议的试点研究旨在与社区制定合作研究问题，这些问题可以通过“宝贝爱加评估”当前的数据收集工作来回答，并利用地理信息系统来探索社区的社会环境背景。最终，我们提出了一个以合理节奏、系统化的方式开发全面的社区合作多层次研究项目的流程。