Center for Vulnerable Populations Research

描述(由申请人提供)：弱势人口研究中心(CVPR)的使命是增强社区的优势，消除弱势人口面临的健康差距，特别关注少数民族/种族少数群体和生活贫困的人。CVPR促进了资源的共享和扩展，以提高研究VP健康问题的调查人员的能力，支持VP研究的知识库和方法的不断发展，并发展与社区合作伙伴的合作关系。CVPR未来五年的目标是：1)继续扩大VP健康相关问题的科学知识库，以a)减少/消除健康差距；b)促进健康促进；c)改善护理实践的结果；2)将大学和社区调查人员在参与式研究(PR)方法和社区合作中获得的知识、技能和经验转化为实践/行动，以改善VP的健康状况并发展这一领域的科学；3)扩大在VP研究中测量、分析和连接生物和行为标记物的能力；以及4)传播研究结果以告知社区合作伙伴，并影响护理、卫生政策制定、伦理决策过程和未来的研究。中心的基础设施通过四个核心--行政、生物实验室、参与性研究和社区伙伴关系(PRCPC)和研究支助--开展的各种研究和教育活动，支持这些目标的实现。在过去的四年里，CVPR研究人员及其附属机构的跨学科团队已经建立了几个社区伙伴关系和大学合作，并在研究VP的行为和生物学研究人员之间开发了独特的科学接口。通过让研究参与者参与研究的开发和实施，并将副总统研究的结果直接传播给社区、临床医生和政策制定者，中心调查人员正在有效地解决重要的健康和护理问题。以社区为基础的伙伴关系为CVPR的进一步发展奠定了坚实的基础，使其成为以社区为基础的公共关系研究和培训的中心，以减少健康差距。目前和计划开展的CVPR研究旨在消除与传染病(如艾滋病毒/艾滋病、甲型/乙型/丙型肝炎、肺结核)、慢性病(心血管疾病、糖尿病、哮喘)、物质使用和环境质量相关领域的健康差距。CVPR的继续将使调查人员能够持续和扩大努力，以应对洛杉矶和全国的健康差距，实现几个政府机构制定的国家健康目标，并建设社区能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Center for Vulnerable Populations Research (CVPR) is to enhance strengths of communities to eliminate health disparities faced by vulnerable populations (VPs), with a particular focus on ethnic/racial minorities and people living in poverty. The CVPR has facilitated sharing and expanding resources to improve the competence of investigators studying health problems of VPs, to support ongoing evolution of the knowledge base and methods of VP research, and to develop collaborative relations with community partners. Goals of the CVPR in the next five years are to: 1) continue expanding the scientific knowledge base of health-related problems of VPs to a) reduce/eliminate health disparities; b) facilitate health promotion; and c) improve outcomes of nursing practice; 2) translate the knowledge, skills, and experience acquired in participatory research (PR) methods and community partnerships by university and community investigators into practice/action to improve the health status of VPs and to develop science in this area; 3) expand capacity to measure, analyze and link biologic and behavioral markers in VPs research; and 4) disseminate research findings to inform community partners, and to influence nursing, health policy development, ethical decision- making processes, and future research. The infrastructure of the CVPR supports achievement of these goals through a variety of research and educational activities conducted by 4 cores - Administrative, Bio Laboratory, Participatory Research and Community Partnerships (PRCPC) and Research Support. Over the past four years the interdisciplinary team of CVPR investigators and affiliates have established several community partnerships and university collaborations and developed a unique scientific interface between behavioral and biologic researchers studying VPs. By involving research participants in the development and implementation of studies and directly disseminating the results of VP research to communities, clinicians and policy makers, the Center Investigators are effectively addressing important health and nursing issues. The community-based partnerships provide a solid foundation for further development of the CVPR as an epicenter for research and training in community-based PR to reduce health disparities. Current and planned CVPR research addresses elimination of health disparities in areas related to infectious diseases (e.g., HIV/AIDS, hepatitis A/B/C, tuberculosis), chronic illness (cardiovascular disease, diabetes, asthma) substance use, and environmental quality. Continuance of the CVPR will enable investigators to sustain and expand efforts to confront health disparities in Los Angeles and the nation, to address national health goals established by several governmental agencies, and to build community capacity.