NIMHD RESEARCH CENTER ON LATINO IMMIGRANT/REFUGEE HEALTH DISPARITIES

描述（由申请人提供）：美国人口的人口结构变化-其中最近的移民在人口增长中发挥着关键作用-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探索中心的非常及时的整体使命是建立在现有的学术社区与拉丁美洲移民人口在华盛顿，DC大都市区的合作，以更好地了解特定于这一关键人群的种族/少数民族健康差异的因素，以提高社区和学术能力，以解决这些因素，并测试多层次的社区干预措施，解决药物滥用和并发症的健康差距问题。这一合作将：1）促进该领域的跨学科发展，消除健康差距以及拉丁美洲社区的健康; 2）制定，实施和评估创新的，社区驱动的，多成分的社区干预措施（称为ADELANTE），解决药物滥用和青年和家庭中同时发生的情况这一脆弱群体; 3）提供一个持续的机制，培训和教育教师，学生和社区成员在一系列问题有关解决种族/民族健康差距一般和拉丁美洲移民/难民人口;并为伙伴社区成员提供机会，以获得将提高能力和研究参与的具体研究技能;和4）通过开展具体的合作活动支持中心的总体使命，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，以增加行为改变的可能性，并使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结果。

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.