Outreach Core

这一外联核心的总体目标是为癌症预防和控制活动提供框架，以解决新墨西哥州各地发现的癌症健康差距问题。新墨西哥州是一个少数族裔占主导地位的州，人口中59%是少数族裔(46.3%是西班牙裔，9.4%是印第安人，3%是非裔美国人)。新墨西哥州有许多美洲原住民部落(如纳瓦霍部落、马斯雷罗·阿帕奇部落、祖尼部落、杰梅兹·普韦布洛部落)及其西南部地区的西班牙裔边境社区。几个殖民地，或缺乏基础设施和商品的农村地区，如城市水、垃圾处理和铺设的道路，包围着该州的边境地区。卫生知识水平低，贫困率和未参保率高，获得护理的机会有限，在这些代表性不足的人群中，癌症发病率和死亡率过高。总体而言，该州的少数民族人口在癌症预防、诊断和治疗方面得不到足够的服务。 我们的外展核心的一项任务是提高社区参与新墨西哥州癌症意识、预防和控制活动的能力。我们将通过以社区为基础的参与性研究(CBPR)来实现这一点，该研究旨在进行转化性干预。汤普森博士和帕拉西奥斯博士在社区工作方面都有丰富的经验。要建设社区能力，重要的是让社区合作伙伴有权与我们合作。为了确保社区参与我们的活动，我们将在该地区招募个人加入社区咨询委员会(CAB)，在确定社区需求、能力和潜在合作者方面提供投入和协助。CAB将由12-18名成员组成，代表当地的西班牙裔和美洲原住民组织或服务于这些人口的组织。FHCRC的核心负责人Beti Thompson博士将与NMSU的核心负责人丽贝卡·帕拉西奥斯博士一起领导这项工作。

The overall goal of this Outreach Core is to provide the framework for cancer prevention and control activities to address the cancer health disparities found throughout New Mexico. New Mexico is a minority-dominated state, with a population that is 59% minority (46.3% Hispanic, 9.4% Native American, and 3% African American). New Mexico is home to a number of Native American tribes (e.g., Navajo, Mescalero Apache, Zuni, Jemez Pueblo) throughout the state and Hispanic border communities in its southwestern region. Several colonies, or rural areas lacking infrastructures and commodities such as city water, waste disposal, and paved roads, surround the state's border region. Health literacy levels are low, poverty and noninsurance rates are high, access to care is limited, and cancer morbidity and mortality is excessive among these underrepresented populations. Overall, minority populations in the state are underserved in terms of cancer prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. A task of our Outreach Core is to increase community capacity to participate in cancer awareness, prevention, and control activities in NM. We will do this through community-based participatory research (CBPR) directed at translational interventions. Both Drs. Thompson and Palacios have extensive experience in working with communities. To build community capacity, it is important to have community partners empowered to collaborate with us. To ensure community participation in our activities, we will recruit individuals in the region to serve on a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to provide input and assistance in identifying community needs, capacities, and prospective collaborators. The CAB will consist of 12-18 members representing local Hispanic and Native American organizations or organizations that serve those populations. Dr. Beti Thompson, Core Leader from FHCRC, will lead this effort along with Dr. Rebecca Palacios, Core Leader from NMSU.