Creation of an Hispanic Health Research Center in the L*

在 L* 创建西班牙裔健康研究中心

• 批准号: 6852619
• 负责人: JOSEPH MCCORMICK
• 金额: $ 124.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-03 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6852619
• 关键词: Mexican Americans; biomedical facility; clinical research; health disparity

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Creation of a Hispanic Health Research Center in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. There are two disabling dimensions to Health Disparities in minorities. The first is that minorities have higher frequencies of many diseases, and the second that they have fewer trained people to research and address those diseases within their own populations. Nowhere in the US does this apply more than to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. This proposal addresses both dimensions of health disparity by partnering two institutions in a predominantly (85%) Hispanic border region of South Texas: that is, the, Regional Campus at Brownsville of the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health and The University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College. This partnership will also draw on expertise and resources of the University of Texas Houston School of Public Health and the University of Texas Houston Health Science Center. Nowhere in the US is there a center dedicated specifically to research on the health of Hispanic Americans. The purpose of this proposal is to create such a Hispanic Health Research Center within the existing academic institutions of a predominantly Hispanic community, designed to address the disease burdens and the paucity of research capacity in this poor, undereducated and medically underserved Hispanic population. The activities of the Hispanic Health Research Center will encompass research on health disparities in Hispanics, provide a source of data on Hispanic health, develop and evaluate intervention strategies for Hispanic cultures, evolve research collaborations with other Hispanic communities, and build research capacity in South Texas LRGV. We propose to develop nine cores, of which three are research cores with projects addressing specific aspects of the major killers of the Hispanic population of South Texas, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. The grant will be centered in Brownsville, in the adjacent, newly constructed buildings of the two partnering institutions on their common campus, sharing web and video facilities, library services, laboratories and other resources. The long-term goals are to enhance the ability of individuals from both partnering institutions to apply for research funding, and to create a strong scientific and academic relationship between the two institutions and the collaborating institutions in Houston. The two Hispanic population and the higher educational institutions attempting to serve them in the LRGV fit every ethnic, economic, geographic and scientific criteria of Project EXPORT.

描述(由申请者提供)：在格兰德河谷下部建立一个西班牙裔健康研究中心。少数族裔的健康差距有两个令人无法接受的方面。第一个原因是少数民族患多种疾病的频率较高，第二个原因是他们在自己的人口中研究和解决这些疾病的训练有素的人较少。在美国，这一点最适用于南得克萨斯州的下里奥格兰德山谷。这项提案通过在南得克萨斯州以西班牙裔为主的边境地区(85%)与两个机构合作，解决了健康差距的两个方面：德克萨斯大学休斯顿公共卫生学院布朗斯维尔地区校园和德克萨斯大学布朗斯维尔/德克萨斯最南端学院。这一伙伴关系还将利用德克萨斯大学休斯顿公共卫生学院和德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心的专业知识和资源。在美国，没有一个中心专门致力于拉美裔美国人的健康研究。这项提议的目的是在一个以拉美裔为主的社区的现有学术机构内建立这样一个拉美裔健康研究中心，旨在解决这一贫穷、受教育程度低、医疗服务不足的拉美裔人口的疾病负担和研究能力不足的问题。拉美裔健康研究中心的活动将包括对拉美裔健康差距的研究，提供关于拉美裔健康的数据来源，开发和评估针对拉美裔文化的干预策略，发展与其他拉美裔社区的研究合作，并在南得克萨斯州LRGV建立研究能力。我们建议开发九个核心，其中三个是研究核心，项目涉及南得克萨斯州拉美裔人口的主要杀手、糖尿病、心血管疾病和癌症的具体方面。这笔赠款将集中在布朗斯维尔，在两个合作机构在其共同校园内相邻的新建建筑中，共享网络和视频设施、图书馆服务、实验室和其他资源。长期目标是提高两个合作机构的个人申请研究资金的能力，并在这两个机构和休斯顿的合作机构之间建立牢固的科学和学术关系。这两个拉美裔人口和试图在LRGV为他们提供服务的高等教育机构符合项目出口的每一个种族、经济、地理和科学标准。