Community Based Research of Autoimmune Disease and Asth*

描述(由申请人提供)： 调查人员建议环境与社会研究所(ESI)和 布法罗大学社会与预防医学系 (Ub)继续目前正在进行的社区参与性研究项目 纽约州布法罗的两个目标社区。他们的计划是加强 运营的基础设施和组织要求 社区环境健康响应小组将改进研究 质量和相关性，并保持社区外联，这将产生 社区参与研究进程的各个层面，包括 传播调查结果。社区和科学家合作伙伴已经 制定并正在实施以成果为基础的研究议程，重点是 两个目标地理区域：1)布法罗东侧的一个社区 关注有毒废物场地和点污染源造成的污染 和一系列自身免疫性疾病，以及2)水牛城西区附近 高流量走廊，柴油废气暴露量增加，并有记录 哮喘患病率较高。已就位的研究团队包括 来自布法罗大学的调查人员和工作人员以及积极的转向 每项以社区为基础的研究由工作组组成的委员会。具体任务 方法论概述如下：(1)进一步实施研究 议程，(2)制定传播和传播战略， (3)对参与进程的评价；(4)对参与进程的评价 完成研究目标。 这些指导委员会和工作组提供了一个论坛，在那里科学 与决策过程相结合。已就位的研究小组将 作为社区的科学和教育资源，并将 促进整合与健康评估、风险 沟通和行动。伙伴关系将通过以下方式加强 在此建议的研究科学家之间的活动，初级保健 提供者和公民，处于两个高风险、服务不足、贫穷的少数群体中 似乎受到环境侮辱不利影响的人口。 在每个研究领域的五年期间，研究目标将 包括疾病流行率的进一步记录，验证 诊断和组织暴露评估方案、设计和 实施分析研究，建立监测系统， 传播调查结果以及制定和执行 干预措施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The investigators propose that the Environment and Society Institute (ESI) and the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine of the University of Buffalo (UB) continue community participatory research projects currently underway in two targeted communities in Buffalo, New York. Their plan is to strengthen the infrastructural and organizational requirements for the operation of a community environmental health response team which will improve research quality and relevance and maintain the community outreach that will engender community participation at all levels of the research process, including dissemination of the findings. The community and scientist partners have developed and are implementing an outcome-based research agenda focusing on two targeted geographic areas: 1) a community on the east-side of Buffalo concerned with pollution from toxic waste sites and point sources of pollution and a cluster of autoimmune disease, and 2) the westside of Buffalo near a high-traffic corridor with elevated exposures to diesel exhaust and documented higher prevalence of asthma. The research teams in place consist of investigators and staff from the University at Buffalo and an active steering committee with working groups for each community-based study. Specific tasks outlined in the methodology are (1) further implementation of the research agenda, (2) development of communication and dissemination strategies, (3) evaluation of the participatory process, and (4) evaluation of the completion of the research objectives. These steering committees and workgroups provide a forum where science is integrated with decision-making processes. The research teams in place will serve as a scientific and educational resource for the community and will facilitate integration of activities related to health assessment, risk communication, and action. A partnership will be strengthened by the activities proposed herein between research scientists, primary care providers, and citizens, in two high-risk, underserved, poor, minority populations that appear to be adversely impacted by environmental insults. Over the five-year period in each of the study areas, research objectives will include further documentation of the prevalence of disease, validation of diagnosis and organization of exposure assessment protocols, design and implementation of analytic studies, establishment of surveillance systems, dissemination of findings and the development and implementation of interventions.