Idaho Partnership for Hispanic Health

描述（由申请人提供）：爱达荷州西班牙裔健康伙伴关系将研究干预措施，以减少西班牙裔人口，特别是被认定为墨西哥裔美国人的西班牙裔人口所经历的健康差距。以社区为基础的参与式研究（CBPR）方法将有意义地让西班牙裔社区参与项目伙伴关系建立、评估、干预措施设计和实施、评估和结果交流的所有阶段。两个社区合作伙伴- Cenfro de commity Justicia和爱达荷州西班牙裔事务委员会，一个研究合作伙伴-华盛顿大学太平洋西北农业安全与健康中心，以及两个卫生保健提供者合作伙伴-博伊西州立大学的La Buena Salud健康项目和山谷家庭卫生保健的社区/移民卫生中心，加入了山区集团的干预研究工作。项目的五个组成部分包括：1。建立伙伴关系的基础和结构。核心伙伴关系小组和更广泛的西班牙裔社区咨询小组将确保所有项目工作都是与爱达荷州南部的西班牙裔社区合作规划和实施的。2. 评估计划和实施。对爱达荷州西南部西班牙裔人的访谈和焦点小组将收集与健康有关的知识和行为、对保健的看法、健康问题和状况以及改善健康的障碍的定性和定量数据。3. 确定疾病焦点，干预研究计划和实施。在对评估结果、现有研究和干预模式进行深思熟虑的审查之后，社区将优先考虑项目的疾病重点，并与合作伙伴一起设计适合当地文化和资源的干预策略。核心伙伴关系小组将围绕试点干预措施建立研究设计，重点是预防、筛查、改善护理和社区教育。沟通和传播。社区合作伙伴和当地西班牙媒体将在设立爱达荷州西班牙裔事务委员会西班牙裔健康信息中心的协助下，不断向西班牙裔社区通报项目进展和结果。5. 评价将审查伙伴关系的运作、社区参与、评估和干预进程、西班牙裔人健康相关成果以及实现的社区能力建设。消除健康差距是“2010年健康人”的两个首要目标之一，包括西班牙裔人的目标，也是美国卫生与公众服务部多项倡议的优先事项。该项目将通过调查有希望的社区驱动干预措施，解决西班牙裔健康差异背后的复杂因素，为这一公共卫生挑战作出贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Idaho Partnership for Hispanic Health will research interventions to reduce health disparities experienced by the Hispanic population, particularly those identified as Mexican American. A community based participatory research (CBPR) approach will meaningfully involve the Hispanic community in all phases of project partnership building, assessment, intervention design and implementation, evaluation, and communication of results. Two community partners - Cenfro de Commun/dad y Justicia and the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs, a research partner - University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, and two health care provider partners - Boise State University's La Buena Salud wellness project and Valley Family Health Care's community/migrant health centers, join Mountain States Group in the intervention research work. The project's five components include: 1. Building the partnership foundation and structure. A core partnership team and broader Hispanic community advisory group will ensure that all project work is planned and carried out in partnership with the southern Idaho Hispanic community. 2. Assessment planning and implementation. Interviews and focus groups with southwest Idaho Hispanic persons will collect qualitative and quantitative data on health-related knowledge and behaviors, perception of health care, health concerns and conditions, and barriers to health improvement. 3. Determining disease focus, intervention research planning and implementation. After a thoughtful review of assessment results, existing research and intervention models, the community will prioritize the project's disease focus and work with partners to design intervention strategies that fit local culture and resources. The core partnership team will build a research design around the pilot interventions, which will focus on prevention, screening, improved care and community education. Communication and dissemination. Community partners and local Spanish media will keep the Hispanic community informed of project progress and findings, aided by the creation of an Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs Hispanic health information center. 5. Evaluation will examine partnership functioning, community participation, assessment and intervention process, resulting Hispanic health-related outcomes, and community capacity building achieved. Eliminating health disparities is one of two overarching goals of Healthy People 2010, including those experienced by Hispanics, and is also a priority of numerous U.S. Department of Health and Human Services initiatives. The project will contribute to this public health challenge by investigating promising community-driven interventions that address the complex factors underlying Hispanic health disparities.