Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：项目概述-西班牙裔健康差异研究进步中心。促进西班牙裔健康差异研究中心的目的是参与并领导以研究为基础的创新，以减少西班牙裔健康差异。该中心将重点关注西班牙裔的健康差距。该中心的使命是三重的。该中心将发展德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校健康科学学院和德克萨斯大学休斯顿分校健康科学中心公共卫生学院之间的合作关系，这将促进拉美裔健康差距奖学金发展的可持续机制。该中心将通过学习机构、指导研究和传播新知识来指导卫生研究人员。这些受指导的卫生研究人员将开始开发拉美裔卫生研究的创新知识库。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Program Overview - Center for the Advancement of Hispanic Health Disparities Research. The purpose of the Center for the Advancement of Hispanic Health Disparities Research is to participate in and provide leadership to research-based innovations that will reduce Hispanic health disparities. The Center will focus on Hispanic health disparities. The mission of the Center is threefold. The Center will develop collaborative relationships between the University of Texas at El Paso, College of Health Sciences and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health that will foster sustainable mechanisms for scholarship development in Hispanic health disparities. The Center will mentor health researchers through learning institutes, guided research studies, and dissemination of new knowledge. These mentored health researchers will begin the development of knowledge base of innovation in Hispanic health research. The mission of the Center will be guided by a conceptual framework that makes explicit the variables of interest that influence Hispanic health disparities and the mechanisms the Center will use to impact the ultimate outcome of reducing Hispanic health disparities. The Center will act as a catalyst for research on the variables affecting health disparities. The mechanisms include the recruitment, selection and mentoring of faculty using the expert knowledge of the Advisory Committee and senior faculty of both institutions. The Center will assemble together a set of pilot studies each year of the grant that advance the knowledge about Hispanic health disparities and knowledge about the best practices to eliminate health disparities in Hispanics. The Center will channel the knowledge discovered via its mentoring and dissemination core. The variables of interest to the Center are clustered into five dimensions. Determinations of Health, Effects on Population Health Resulting from Health Disparities, Health Care Needs Resulting from Health Disparities, Policy and System Supports for Elimination of Health Disparities, and Health Status Data, Trends in Disparities, and Best Approaches.