NIMHD RESEARCH CENTER ON LATINO IMMIGRANT/REFUGEE HEALTH DISPARITIES

描述(由申请人提供)：美国人口结构的变化~最近的移民在人口增长中发挥了关键作用~已经并将继续对健康差距的过程产生重大影响。因此，拟议的GWU NIMHD P20探索中心的总体使命非常及时，目的是在现有的学术和社区合作的基础上，与华盛顿特区的拉丁裔移民人口合作，以便更好地了解导致这一关键人口特定的种族/少数民族健康差距的因素，提高社区和学术能力以应对这些因素，并测试多层次社区干预措施，以解决药物滥用和共生条件下的健康差距问题。这一合作将：1)在消除健康差距和拉丁裔社区健康方面促进该领域的跨学科发展；2)开发、实施和评价一种创新的、社区驱动的、多组成部分的社区干预措施(称为阿德兰特)，以解决青年和家庭中药物滥用和共生状况的脆弱性群；3)提供持续的机制，培训和教育教职员工、学生和社区成员，解决与解决普遍和拉丁裔移民/难民人口的种族/族裔健康差距有关的一系列问题；并为伙伴社区成员提供机会，以获得具体的研究技能，从而提高能力和研究参与度；4)通过开展具体的合作活动支持中心的总体使命，这些活动旨在：增加与预防药物滥用和相关健康状况有关的技能和知识，测试创新的社交媒体和品牌战略以增加改变行为的可能性，并利用经过测试的社区培训方法提高健康素养和能力。5)通过中心网站和多种渠道，向参与社区和实地传播研究成果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The changing demographics of the U.S. population ~ in which recent immigrants are playing a key role in population growth ~ have and will continue to exert a major influence on the course of health disparities. Therefore, the very timely overall mission of the proposed GWU NIMHD P20 Exploratory Center is to build on an existing academic-community collaboration with the Latino immigrant population in the Washington, DC metropolitan area in order to better understand factors contributing to racial/ethnic minority health disparities specific to this critical population, to increase both community and academic capacity to address these factors, and to test a multi-level community intervention addressing the health disparity issue of substance abuse and co-occurring conditions. This collaboration will: 1) Contribute to the transdisciplinary advancement of the field with respect to eliminating health disparities as well as the health of the Latino community; 2) Develop, implement and evaluate an innovative, community-driven, multi-component community intervention (called ADELANTE) that addresses a vulnerability cluster of substance abuse and co-occurring conditions in youth and families ; 3) Provide an ongoing mechanism for training and educating faculty, students and community members in a range of issues related to addressing racial/ethnic health disparities generally and in Latino immigrant/refugee populations; and provide opportunities for partner community members to gain specific research skills that will increase capacity and research participation; and 4) Support the overall mission of the Center by conducting specific, collaborative activities aimed at: increasing skills and knowledge related to preventing substance abuse and related health conditions, testing innovative social media and branding strategies to increase the likelihood of behavior change, and improving health literacy and capacity using a tested community training approach. 5) Disseminate the results of the research to the participating communities and to the field, via the Center website and multiple channels.