EMORY PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER

描述（由申请人提供）： 埃默里预防研究中心 (EPRC) 开展并传播关于体力活动、营养、肥胖和烟草使用等主要慢性病风险因素的研究，旨在预防癌症并减少佐治亚州西南部农村地区的健康差距。 EPRC 的主要合作伙伴是西南乔治亚癌症联盟 (SWGCC)，该联盟已将 33 个县的农村地区定义为其服务区域。 EPRC 采用了这些相同的边界来定义其合作伙伴社区。非裔美国人占佐治亚州西南部地区人口的很大一部分，该地区比整个州要贫穷得多。由于该地区的农村性质及其人口特征，慢性病和相关危险因素的负担异常高。积极参与的社区咨询委员会 (CAB) 本着基于社区的参与性研究的精神，为研究和其他活动的规划和实施提供持续的社区指导。当前的提案建立在 EPRC 迄今为止通过六个相互关联的目标或目的所取得的成功的基础上。 EPRC 将： 维护和加强 EPRC 基础设施，以支持和维持埃默里大学和佐治亚州农村社区的慢性病预防；培养和加强与社区、公共卫生机构、学术单位和组织的伙伴关系，以促进基于社区的参与性方法来预防癌症和减少健康差距；向佐治亚州西南部居民以及科学和专业社区传播研究成果和循证慢性病预防实践。 EPRC 还将通过培训、技术援助和指导，提高佐治亚州西南社区合作伙伴设计、实施和评估循证健康促进计划的能力；实施五年评估计划，利用绩效指标和补充评估研究来评估和改进 EPRC 的进展和成果；实施一项为期五年的合作研究议程，以测试和传播多层次的环境战略，使农村家庭和社区环境更加支持体育活动和健康饮食模式。相关性（参见说明）：埃默里预防研究中心本着以社区为基础的参与性研究的精神开展研究、培训、评估以及沟通和传播活动，以解决乔治亚州西南部农村地区癌症和其他慢性病的健康差距。通过EPRC的努力，这个弱势地区正在增强当地癌症预防和控制的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Emory Prevention Research Center (EPRC) conducts and disseminates research on major chronic disease risk factors such as physical activity, nutrition, obesity and tobacco use for the purpose of preventing cancer and reducing health disparities in rural Southwest Georgia. The EPRC's primary partner is the Southwest Georgia Cancer Coalition (SWGCC), which has defined a 33-county rural region as its service area. The EPRC has adopted these same boundaries to define its partner community. African Americans comprise a large proportion of the SW Georgia region's population, and the region is considerably poorer than the state as a whole. Due to the rural nature of the region and its demographic characteristics, the burden of chronic disease and associated risk factors is disproportionately high. An active and engaged Community Advisory Board (CAB) provides ongoing community guidance into planning and implementation of research and other activities, in the spirit of community-based participatory research. The current proposal builds upon the EPRC's success to date through six inter-related goals or aims. The EPRC will: maintain and strengthen the EPRC infrastructure to support and sustain chronic disease prevention at Emory and in rural communities across Georgia; cultivate and strengthen partnerships with communities, public health agencies, and academic units and organizations to promote community-based participatory approaches to preventing cancer and reducing health disparities; and disseminate research findings and evidence-based chronic disease prevention practices to SW Georgia residents, and the scientific and professional communities. The EPRC will also increase the capacity of SW Georgia community partners to design, implement and evaluate evidence-based health promotion programs through training, technical assistance and mentoring; implement a five-year evaluation plan to assess and improve EPRC progress and outcomes using performance indicators and supplemental evaluation studies; and implement a 5-year collaborative research agenda to test and disseminate multi-level environmental strategies to make rural home and neighborhood environments more supportive of physical activity and healthy eating patterns. RELEVANCE (See instructions): The Emory Prevention Research Center works in the spirit of community-based participatory research to conduct research, training, evaluation, and communication and dissemination activities to address health disparities in cancer and other chronic diseases in rural Southwest Georgia. Through EPRC efforts, this disadvantaged region is strengthening its capacity for local cancer prevention and control.