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——其中新移民在人口增长中起着关键作用——已经并将继续对健康差距的进程产生重大影响。因此，提议的GWU NIMHD P20探索中心的总体任务是建立在与华盛顿特区拉丁裔移民人口现有的学术社区合作的基础上，以便更好地了解导致这一关键人群特定的种族/少数民族健康差异的因素，以提高社区和学术能力来解决这些因素。并测试一个多层次的社区干预，解决药物滥用和共存条件的健康差异问题。这项合作将：1)促进该领域在消除健康差距和拉丁裔社区健康方面的跨学科进步；2)开发、实施和评估一个创新的、社区驱动的、多成分的社区干预（称为ADELANTE），以解决青少年和家庭中药物滥用和共同发生的情况的脆弱性集群；3)提供一个持续的机制，对教师、学生和社区成员进行培训和教育，以解决与种族/族裔健康差距有关的一系列问题，以及拉丁裔移民/难民人口；并为伙伴社区成员提供获得具体研究技能的机会，以提高能力和研究参与；4)通过开展具体的协作活动，支持中心的总体使命，这些活动旨在：提高与预防药物滥用和相关健康状况有关的技能和知识，测试创新的社会媒体和品牌战略，以增加改变行为的可能性，并使用经过测试的社区培训方法提高卫生知识和能力。5)通过中心网站和多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.