Hispanic Health Disparities Research Center

描述(由申请者提供)：项目概述-促进西班牙裔健康差距研究中心。西班牙裔健康差距研究促进中心的目的是参与并领导以研究为基础的创新，以减少拉美裔健康差距。该中心将关注拉美裔美国人的健康差距。该中心的使命有三个方面。该中心将在德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的健康科学学院和休斯顿的德克萨斯大学健康科学中心公共卫生学院之间发展合作关系，以促进可持续的拉美裔健康差距学术发展机制。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创新的知识库。 中心的使命将以一个概念框架为指导，明确影响拉美裔健康差距的利益变量，以及中心将用来影响缩小拉美裔健康差距的最终结果的机制。该中心将作为研究影响健康差距的变量的催化剂。这些机制包括利用咨询委员会和两所院校的高级教员的专业知识招聘、遴选和指导教员。该中心每年将在赠款中汇集一组试点研究，以促进对拉美裔健康差距的了解，并促进对消除拉美裔健康差距的最佳做法的了解。该中心将通过其指导和传播核心来引导所发现的知识。中心感兴趣的变量被分成五个维度。健康的确定，健康差距对人口健康的影响，健康差距造成的卫生保健需求，消除健康差距的政策和系统支持，以及健康状况数据，差距趋势和最佳方法。

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.