Central Plains Center for American Indian Health Disparties (CPC-AIHD)

美国印第安人(Al)在美国所有种族/民族中遭受着最大的健康差距 美国。此外，Al在研究中代表性不足，特别是在临床试验和高级研究中 教育，包括本科生课程、研究生课程和医学院。要解决这些问题 健康差距和将更多的铝带入卫生专业，我们建议发展中央 美国印第安人健康差距平原中心(CPC-AIHD)。我们的长期目标是减少健康 通过高质量的基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)实现中原地区铝的差异 并增加了Al学生通过管道项目进入卫生专业的机会 从高中到大学，再到研究生和医学院。我们对CPC-AIHD的具体目标是 到：1)创建一个跨学科的CBPR中心，用于在Al社区进行健康差距研究 中原；2)通过以下方式为中心的健康差距研究人员提供方法学支持 质量受控的生物统计和数据管理；3)为Al学生创建教育渠道 从高中到大学，再到卫生专业的研究生院；以及4)征募 通过社区在研究过程的所有部分帮助当地和区域铝社区 顾问委员会和研究人员。在过去的五年里，美国印第安人社区的计划 堪萨斯大学医学中心的健康发展并领导了美国人 印度健康研究和教育联盟，学术机构、部落、社区的联盟 各组织和公司/政府实体，其任务是通过以下方式改善阿拉伯半岛的健康 高质量的参与性研究和教育。CPC-AIHD将建立在我们成功的CBPR研究的基础上 团队和联盟，并将把现有的、资助的健康差异研究与两项新研究相结合 项目。我们的项目包括1)乳房X光检查满意度项目，旨在确定 可以改善乳房X光检查经验，以鼓励Al妇女重复进行乳房X光检查；以及2) 一项流行病学研究集中在部落大学生中的吸烟模式，以帮助确定为什么 吸烟率是美国所有种族/民族中最高的。

American Indians (Al) suffer some ofthe greatest health disparities among all racial/ethnic groups in the United States. In addition, Al are under-represented in research, particularly in clinical trials, and in higher education, including undergraduate programs, graduate programs, and medical school. To address these health disparities and bring more Al into the health professions, we propose the development of the Central Plains Center for American Indian Health Disparities (CPC-AIHD). Our long term goal is to reduce health disparities among Al in the Central Plains through quality community-based participatory research (CBPR) and enhanced opportunities for Al students to enter the health professions through pipeline programs from high school through college and into graduate and medical school. Our Specific Aims for the CPC-AIHD are to: 1) To create an interdisciplinary, CBPR center for health disparities research in Al communities in the Central Plains; 2) To provide methodologic support to health disparities researchers in the Center through quality-controlled biostatistics and data management; 3) To create an educational pipeline for Al students from high school, through college, and into graduate schools in the health professions; and 4) To enlist the help of the local and regional Al communities in all parts of the research process through Community Advisory Boards and research staff. Over the past five years, the Program in American Indian Community Health at the University of Kansas Medical Center has developed and lead the creation ofthe American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance, an alliance of academic institutions, tribes, community organizations, and corporations/government entities, whose mission is to improve the health of Al through quality participatory research and education. The CPC-AIHD will build on our successful CBPR research team and alliance and will integrate existing, funded health disparities research with two new research projects. Our projects include 1) a mammography satisfaction project designed to detemnine how the mammography experience can be improved to encourage repeat mammography among Al women; and 2) an epidemiology study focused on smoking pattems among tribal college students to help determine why Al have the highest smoking rates of any racial/ethnic group in the US.