COMMUNITY-BASED PLAN TO INCREASE MINORITY ORGAN DONATION

美国肾移植等待名单上整整一半的人是 少数族裔患者。然而，部分原因是血型和人类白细胞抗原 频率，非洲裔美国人必须等待L一年，亚洲人必须等待6个月 捐献肾脏的时间比高加索人长。一种解决方案是 增加器官捐献和活体移植 少数群体。这笔赠款利用了一种独特的基于社区的 外展网络提供有关器官捐赠的资料和 年移植到非洲裔美国人和亚洲人社区 西雅图和塔科马。这笔赠款用于制作一部教育性的 适合当地少数民族社区和课堂的视频 移植受者。此外，公共服务公告的目标是 由当地少数民族学生制作的少数民族作品将在 机动车管理处。一项教学计划将 将在当地学校设立。将分发教育材料 在当地社区和教堂由Vista志愿者，当地 从目标非裔美国人和亚洲人招募的居民 社区。Neighborhood Vista志愿者将获得工作经验 并获得高等教育学分。计算机化的数据库 将创建社区居民的记录以记录捐赠 偏好、受教育程度、医学史、数据 可用于未来对这些社区的流行病学研究。 这项教育计划的效果将通过调查来衡量。 华盛顿州器官捐赠卡对捐赠的态度 登记，以及按种族分列的实际捐赠率和移植率。这 计划是社区领导发展和发展的典范 提供可应用于其他方面的保健信息 医疗保健问题。

Fully half of the U.S. renal transplant waiting list is composed of minority patients. Yet, due in part to blood group and HLA frequencies, African-Americans must wait l year, and Asians 6 months longer than Caucasians for a donated kidney. One solution is to increase organ donation and living-related transplantation among minority groups. This grant utilizes a unique community-based outreach network to deliver information on organ donation and transplantation to the African-American and Asian communities in Seattle and Tacoma. The grant funds the production of an educational video suitable for community and classroom featuring local minority transplant recipients. Also, public service announcements targeting minorities, produced by local minority students, will be shown at the Department of Motor Vehicles offices. A program of instruction will be instituted in local schools. Educational materials will be distributed in local neighborhoods and churches by VISTA volunteers, local residents recruited from the targeted African-American and Asian communities. Neighborhood VISTA volunteers will gain job experience and receive credits toward higher education. A computerized database of community residents will be created to record donation preferences, educational level attained, and medicai histories, data that could be used in future epidemiologic studies on these communities. The efficacy of this educational program will be measured by surveys on attitudes toward donation, by a Washington state organ donor card registry, and by actual donation and transplantation rates by race. This program is a model for community leadership in the development and delivery of health care information which could be applied to other health care issues.