ADMINISTRATIVE CORE

本申请建议设立探索性NCMHD卓越研究中心，以 探讨影响少数群体健康和健康差距的复杂因素，并促进 卫生与公众服务部(DHHS)为改善少数群体健康和减少 美墨边境地区种族和少数民族之间的健康差距。该中心将 开展跨学科、以社区为基础的少数民族健康和健康差距研究 强调家庭因素、文化适应和性别的健康结果差异的途径。 西南跨学科研究中心(SIRC)为新的 将建立健康差距研究中心。建立探索中心将加强亚利桑那州 州立大学(ASU)作为美墨边境地区国家领导者的能力，以促进健康 研究差异并为推进卫生部消除健康倡议作出重大贡献 西南地区的差距。拟建中心的S任务是产生和应用科学发现 倡导改善少数民族健康，缩小健康差距 不受限制地获得符合文化能力的健康/行为健康预防、服务和治疗 少数族裔人口。探索中心扩大了对健康差异的研究，从最近的原因 疾病的根本原因和相关文化进程的发病率和死亡率 保护性因素或风险因素。这将通过识别和改善有害的约束来实现 从贫穷、语言障碍、种族、族裔、性别和文化规范的相互作用中脱颖而出 反应迟钝的护理体系。该中心的研究项目及其行政、研究、培训和 社区参与/外联核心旨在预防、减少和消除 以下卫生部确定了特别强调的领域和决定因素：艾滋病毒/艾滋病、精神健康和 滥用药物。在从预防到服务的整个过程中，将研究这三个重点领域 特别强调了解他们的共病及其对健康结果的影响 西南部的历史民族社区(墨西哥裔美国人和美国印第安人)和两个FAST 该地区不断增长的少数族裔人口、非洲裔美国人和亚裔美国人。

This application proposes the establishment of an Exploratory NCMHD Research Center of Excellence to explore the complex factors influencing minority health and health disparities, and to contribute to the Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) initiatives for improving minority health and reducing health disparities among the racial and ethnic minorities of the U.S.-Mexico border region. The Center will conduct interdisciplinary, community-based minority health and health disparities research by studying the pathways to disparities in health outcomes with an emphasis on familial factors, acculturation, and gender. The Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center's (SIRC) provides the foundation upon which the new center on health disparities will be established. Founding the Exploratory Center will strengthen Arizona State University's (ASU) capacity as a national leader in the U.S.-Mexico border region to advance health disparities research and make a significant contribution to advancing DHHS' initiatives for eliminating health disparities in the Southwest. The proposed center' s mission is to produce and apply scientific findings leading to the improvement of minority health and the reduction of health disparities by advocating the unfettered access to culturally competent health/behavioral health prevention, services, and treatment for minority populations. The Exploratory Center expands health disparities research from proximal causes of morbidity and mortality to fundamental causes of disease and related cultural processes which act as protective or risk factors. This will be achieved by identifying and ameliorating the pernicious constraints that emerge from the interaction of poverty, language barriers, race, ethnicity, gender, and cultural norms within unresponsive systems of care. The center's research projects and its administrative, research, training and community engagement/outreach cores aim to prevent, reduce and eliminate health disparities within the following DHHS identified special emphasis areas and determinants: HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance abuse. The three focus areas will be studied throughout the prevention-to-services continuum with a special emphasis on understanding their comorbidity and their effect on the health outcomes of the historical ethnic communities of the Southwest (Mexican Americans & American Indians) and two fast growing racial minority populations in the region, African Americans and Asian Americans.