Establishing a Center of Excellence on Health Disparities in Rural Populations

建立农村人口健康差异卓越中心

基本信息

批准号：
8526550
负责人：
Kirbie Bryant Smalley
金额：
$ 95.65万
依托单位：
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-08-08 至 2017-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8526550
关键词：
Address Affect African American Age Area Awareness Behavioral Collaborations Communities Community Networks Community Outreach Companions Death Rate Development Diabetes Mellitus Discipline Disease Outcome Economic Conditions Education and Outreach Emerging Technologies Employee Strikes Face Faculty Funding Future Health Health Personnel Health Professional Health Services Accessibility Healthy People 2020 Heart Diseases Hypertension Individual Instruction Interdisciplinary Study Intervention Studies Life Location Malignant Neoplasms Malignant neoplasm of prostate Measures Mental Health Mentors Minority Modeling Onset of illness Outcome Population Positioning Attribute Poverty Prevention Preventive Primary Health Care Provider Reporting Research Research Activity Research Infrastructure Research Institute Research Personnel Research Training Rural Rural Community Rural Health Rural Population Scientific Advances and Accomplishments Social Conditions Students Training Training and Education Transportation Underrepresented Minority United States United States Dept. of Health and Human Services United States Health Resources and Services Administration Universities Update Urban Population Vulnerable Populations Work base college community based participatory research design effective intervention experience graduate student health disparity health literacy improved innovation innovative technologies medically underserved novel outreach physical conditioning programs rural area rural disparities success undergraduate student

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The establishment of an NIMHD Exploratory Center of Excellence (CoE) at Georgia Southern University has the potential to greatly reduce health disparities among rural residents (comprising 20% of the nation's population). The proposed CoE has many unique features that would facilitate its success, including 1) building upon a heavily supported existing Rural Health Research Institute that is located within a medically underserved rural community; and 2) focusing on the use of emerging technologies in administrative, research, training, and outreach activities. The CoE's highly interdisciplinary focus is reflective of emerging evidence of the importance of trans-discipline research in disparities-elimination efforts. The Administrative Core's innovative technology-facilitated collaboration approach has the potential to become a new model for research capacity building. The Research Core focuses on three leading disparities in rural communities (Diabetes, hypertension, and prostate cancer). Both Research Subprojects heavily involve the local community and attempt to directly address specific barriers to healthy living (transportation access to services, etc.) in diverse rural populations. The Research Training/Education Core combines traditional training models with innovative cyber-mentoring experiences designed to increase minority and underserved student and faculty Involvement in rural health disparities elimination research. The Core's activities include conducing a Disparities-Elimination Summer Research Experience (DESRE) program for undergraduate and graduate students, providing postdoctoral research experiences for emerging rural health researchers, and establishing a cyber-mentoring network to increase the access of junior faculty in rural areas to senior research mentors. The Community Engagement/Outreach Core focuses on building community capacity to address health disparities, designed to increase health literacy and build community-based participatory research infrastructure to help maintain research activities even after the funding period. The proposed activities of the Center of Excellence will collaboratively work to eliminate disparities among one of the largest health disparity populations in the United States.

描述（由申请人提供）：在佐治亚州南部大学建立NIMHD探索性卓越中心（COE）有可能大大减少农村居民的健康差异（占该国人口的20％）。拟议中的COE具有许多独特的功能，可以促进其成功，包括1）建立在医疗服务不足的农村社区中的大力支持的现有农村卫生研究所； 2）专注于在行政，研究，培训和外展活动中使用新兴技术。 COE高度跨学科的重点反映了新兴的证据表明，跨学科研究在差异 - 淘汰努力方面的重要性。行政核心的创新技术实力协作方法有可能成为研究能力建设的新模型。研究核心重点是农村社区（糖尿病，高血压和前列腺癌）的三个领先差异。这两项研究都在很大程度上涉及当地社区，并试图直接解决各种农村人口中健康生活的特定障碍（运输获得服务等）。研究培训/教育核心将传统培训模型与创新的网络入学经验相结合，旨在增加少数群体以及服务不足的学生和教师参与农村健康差异消除研究。核心的活动包括为本科和研究生提供差异性夏季研究经验（DESRE）计划，为新兴的农村健康研究人员提供博士后研究经验，并建立网络收入网络，以增加农村地区的初级教师的访问权限。社区参与/外展核心致力于建立社区解决健康差异的能力，旨在提高健康素养并建立基于社区的参与性研究基础设施，以帮助维持研究活动。卓越中心的拟议活动将共同努力消除美国最大的健康差异人群之一的差异。