Bridging communication in research to address health disparities in the suburbs

描述（由申请人提供）：在生物医学和行为研究的前所未有的爆炸加上通信系统和技术的巨大进步，在过去的世纪设置了一个新的模式，在接近疾病控制连续的阶段。通过更加个性化和参与性的方法，预防疾病在今天比以往任何时候都更加现实。然而，如果不将这些研究成果和知识有效地传达给服务不足的社区，现有的健康不平等现象将会扩大。该应用程序旨在通过促进西北大学（NU）和郊区，服务不足的社区，杜佩奇县之间的萌芽校园社区合作伙伴关系，弥合研究沟通的差距。这种校园-社区伙伴关系将利用DuPage健康联盟的积极参与和他们的社区与谁拥有在NU服务不足的人群研究的良好记录的合作伙伴的知识。基于我们的每一个优势，共享的知识和宝贵的经验，我们预计，一个研究伙伴关系，重点是郊区穷人建立一个理想的机会，利用基于社区的参与模式创造性的互动。在这项建议中，我们的目标是通过社区战略，重点关注医疗服务不足的社区成员和学术大学研究人员使用的关于健康和疾病的语言和沟通的独特差异，以提高社区对研究设计和方法的理解。这种关系将导致个性化，文化上适当的语言的发展，以更有效地：1）围绕建立对话; 2）实施; 3）评估;和4）在杜佩奇社区内传播研究。这是我们的目标，这种新发现的理解水平将导致一个奠定健康外展工作者计划的发展，可以帮助维持改善研究的沟通，从而促进预防疾病和改善这个服务不足的社区内的健康。这一为期两年的提案的高潮是加强基于相互信任和共同目标的真正研究伙伴关系，这将提高未来合作项目的研究和数据质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The unprecedented explosion in biomedical and behavioral research coupled with the tremendous advancement in communication systems and technology over the last century sets the stage for a new paradigm in approaching the disease control continuum. With more personalized and participatory methods, preempting disease is more of a reality today than it ever has been. However, without the translation of such research and knowledge effectively communicated to underserved communities, the existing inequalities in health will widen. This application seeks to bridge the gap in communication on research through fostering a budding campus-community partnership between Northwestern University (NU) and a suburban, underserved community, DuPage County. This campus-community partnership will leverage DuPage Health Coalition's active involvement and knowledge of their community with partners who have a well-established record of research in underserved populations at NU. Building upon each of our strengths, shared knowledge, and valuable experiences, we anticipate that a research partnership focused on the suburban poor establishes an ideal opportunity for a creative interaction utilizing a community based participatory model. Within this proposal, we aim to enhance the community's understanding of research design and methods through community strategies focusing on the unique differences in language and communication concerning health and disease used by medically underserved community members and academic university researchers. Such a relationship will lead to the development of personalized, culturally appropriate language with which to more effectively: 1) build dialogue around; 2) implement; 3) evaluate; and 4) disseminate research within the community of DuPage. It is our aim that this new found level of understanding will lead to the development of a lay health outreach worker program that can help sustain the improved communication on research and thus promote prevention of disease and improve health within this underserved community. The culmination of this two year proposal is to fortify a true research partnership based on mutual trust and common goals that will enhance the quality of research and data on future collaborative projects.