SIRC Research Core

项目总结(见说明)： 该研究中心的使命是解决关于健康的社会决定因素(包括文化过程)作为创造、减少和消除健康差距的因素的作用的知识差距，重点是生活在美墨边境地区的少数民族人口。SIRC的研究将继续推进健康的社会决定因素，将文化进程纳入减少和消除健康差距的多层次方法。构建受以下因素影响的健康差距 在多个层面(个人、同龄人、家庭、学校、社区)，SIRC不仅将扩大对健康差距如何受到这些多层面影响的知识，而且还将表明，为减少健康差距而采取的有效干预措施必须将文化和这些多重系统结合起来。研究核心将通过向健康差距研究项目提供概念、方法和统计支助，支持研究活动和增进知识；支持开发新的赠款申请和执行进一步阐明健康差距机制的研究项目 在种族/族裔少数群体中传播健康差距；向学术、社区以及机构或提供者受众有效传播健康差距的机制，以促进转译研究；为研究中心的健康差距研究的研究需求提供全面支持；与研究教育和培训核心协调研究专门知识和资源，以培养下一代健康差距学者；与社区伙伴和社区外联/参与核心合作，促进和改善少数群体的健康；评估研究核心在解决健康差距方面的有效性。这些职能有助于创造一个成功的科学环境，增加中心成功的可能性，将资源分配给中心研究过程中的所有利益攸关方，并最终帮助缩小少数群体的健康差距。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The Research Core's mission is to address knowledge gaps on the role of social determinants of health¿including cultural processes¿as factors in the creation, reduction and elimination of health disparities with a focus on the ethnic minority populations living along the U.S.-Mexico border region. SIRC's research will continue to advance social determinants of health to include cultural processes in the reduction and elimination of health disparities using a multilevel approach. Framing health disparities as influenced by multiple levels (individual, peers, family, school, conimunity), SIRC will not only extend knowledge of how health disparities are influenced by these multiple levels but demonstrate that effective interventions employed to reduce health disparities must integrate culture and these multiple systems. The Research Core will supporting research activities and advance knowledge by providing conceptual, methodological and statistical support to health disparities research projects; supporting the development of new grant applications and the execution of research projects that further elucidate mechanisms of health disparities among racial/ethnic minorities; providing effective dissemination of health disparities' mechanisms to academic, community, and agency or provider audiences to promote translational research; providing comprehensive support for of the research needs of the Center's health disparities studies; coordinating research expertise and resources with the Research Education and Training Core to develop the next generation of health disparities scholars; collaborating with community partners and the Community Outreach/Engagement Core to promote and improve health among minority populations; and evaluating the effectiveness of the Research Core in addressing health disparities. These functions serve to create a successful scientific environment, to increase the probability of the Core's success, to allocate resources to all the stakeholders in the Center's research process, and to ultimately help reduce minority health disparities.