Mobilizing Partnerships to Action for Health Equity-Project M-PAC

动员合作伙伴采取健康公平行动 - 项目 M-PAC

• 批准号: 7317326
• 负责人: DEBRA F TERRELL
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-10 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7317326
• 关键词: Accounting; Adolescent; Adult; Adverse effects; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cessation of life; Child; Childhood; Chronic Disease; Communities; Community Health; Condition; Consult; Coronary Arteriosclerosis; Cosmetics; County; Degenerative polyarthritis; Diabetes Mellitus; Dietary Intervention; Disease; Epidemic; Gall Bladder Diseases; Health; Heart; High Blood Pressure; Inequality; Institution; Intervention; Knowledge; Lipids; Malignant Neoplasms; Medical; Minority; Morbidity - disease rate; Obesity; Obesity associated disease; Overweight; Physical activity; Population; Public Health; Rate; Research; Risk; Risk Factors; Schools; Serum; Services; Smoking; Students; United States; Universities; Weight; base; cardiovascular disorder risk; community organizations; design; health disparity; hypercholesterolemia; minority health; mortality; programs; racial and ethnic; skills; symposium; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Overweight and obesity have become major public health concerns in the United States, reaching epidemic proportions among adults and children in recent years. Obesity is not just a cosmetic disorder, but a disorder with tremendous public health implications. Among adults obesity is associated with increased risk for high blood pressure, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, osteoarthritis, coronary artery disease, gallbladder disease and some cancers. Although obesity-related diseases do not manifest until adulthood, risk factors, particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, such as elevated BP, excess weight, and abnormalities in serum lipid levels are evident in childhood. Research findings suggest that the risk factors evident in childhood often become chronic diseases in adulthood. Recent estimates suggest that obesity accounts for 300,000 deaths annually. Only smoking exceeds obesity in its contribution to total mortality rates in the United States. Fortunately, however, obesity-related mortality and morbidity are preventable. The long term objective of Project M-PAC is to demonstrate the value of bringing academic institutions and community organizations together in an effort to achieve greater health equity for minority populations. More specifically, this project is designed to mobilize effective academic and community partnerships into action-empowering communities, that are disproportionately effected by adverse health conditions, with the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce and or eliminate racial/ethnic health disparities through culturally-sensitive, locally-administered, physical activity and nutrition interventions.

描述（由申请人提供）：超重和肥胖已成为美国的主要公共卫生问题，近年来成人和儿童的流行比例。肥胖不仅是一种美容疾病，而且是具有巨大公共健康影响的疾病。在成年人中，肥胖与高血压，糖尿病，高胆固醇血症，骨关节炎，冠状动脉疾病，胆囊疾病和一些癌症的风险增加有关。尽管与肥胖相关的疾病直到成年后才表现出来，但危险因素，尤其是心血管疾病（CVD）危险因素，例如血清脂质水平的BP，体重增加和异常，在儿童时期很明显。研究发现表明，儿童期明显的危险因素经常成为成年期的慢性疾病。最近的估计表明，肥胖症每年造成30万人死亡。仅吸烟超过了其对美国总死亡率的贡献。幸运的是，可以预防与肥胖相关的死亡率和发病率。 M-PAC项目的长期目标是证明将学术机构和社区组织融合在一起的价值，以实现更大的少数群体健康公平。更具体地说，该项目旨在将有效的学术和社区伙伴关系动员到赋予行动能力的社区，这些社区受到不利健康状况的不成比例，并通过通过文化敏感的，当地的，贴身的，身体活动和营养干预措施来减少和或消除种族/民族健康偏见所必需的知识和技能。