Watts Rising: A Vision for a Healthier Watts

瓦特上升：更健康瓦特的愿景

• 批准号: 10782014
• 负责人: Katrina Kubicek
• 金额: $ 112.5万
• 依托单位: HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-20 至 2028-09-19
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10782014
• 关键词: Address; Advocate; Affect; African American; Age; Area; Authorization documentation; Black race; Businesses; California; Chronic; Chronic Disease; Cities; Collaborations; Communities; Community Health; Community Networks; Criminal Justice; Diabetes Mellitus; Discrimination; Disparity; Economics; Education; Employment Opportunities; Environment; Environmental Health; Food; Forestry; Funding; Future; Genetic; Green space; Health; Health Food; Health Services Accessibility; Health Status; Housing; Inequity; Intervention; Investments; Knowledge; Latinx; Life Expectancy; Los Angeles; Methods; Neighborhoods; Obesity; Outcome; Personal Behavior; Personal Satisfaction; Persons; Physical activity; Policy Maker; Pollution; Prevention; Process; Provider; Qualifying; Quality of Care; Quality of life; Recording of previous events; Recreation; Reduce health disparities; Research Personnel; Resources; Safety; Secure; Services; Social support; Socioeconomic Status; Source; Translating; Transportation; United States; Universities; Vision; Work; Workforce Development; authority; built environment; clinical care; community based participatory research; community engagement; community-level factor; cost; deprivation; design; evidence base; experience; food insecurity; health disparity; health economics; improved; innovation; intervention mapping; intervention refinement; member; neglect; people of color; physical conditioning; population health; programs; social; social health determinants; socioeconomics; structural determinants; success; underserved community; walkability

ABSTRACT Watts is a community in Southeast Los Angeles that has faced systematic disinvestment, discrimination, and resource deprivation, resulting in health disparities across multiple domains including high rates of diabetes and obesity, high pollution burdens and limited employment opportunities. Watts residents, almost exclusively people of color, (73% Latinx and 25% Black/African American), have a life expectancy twelve years lower than other parts of Los Angeles, largely due to decades of neglect the community has faced. This proposal builds on the work of the existing Watts Rising Collaborative (WRC) to address this neglect through a community-led approach to develop and evaluate an intervention that will address two primary structural factors that contribute to these disparities and health outcomes: access to resources and food insecurity and economic instability. The project will be developed through a partnership between the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, the University of California Los Angeles and Charles Drew University as well as the 50 members of the WRC and Watts residents. We will employ an intervention mapping process to refine an intervention that will develop a network of community gardens that will provide opportunities for increased access to healthy foods, green space and physical activity as well as entrepreneurial opportunities for businesses utilizing food from the gardens. Ultimately, we anticipate the intervention will decrease rates of preventable chronic disease in Watts and provide opportunities for workforce development. This intervention has the potential to positively affect the entirety of the Watts community of approximately 40,000 residents.

摘要 瓦茨是洛杉矶东南部的一个社区，面临着系统性的撤资、歧视， 和资源剥夺，导致多个领域的健康差距，包括高死亡率， 糖尿病和肥胖、高污染负担和有限的就业机会。瓦茨居民， 几乎只有有色人种（73%的拉丁美洲人和25%的黑人/非洲裔美国人）的预期寿命 比洛杉矶其他地区低12年，主要是由于几十年的忽视， 面对。该提案建立在现有Watts Rising Collaborative（WRC）的工作基础上，以解决这一问题 通过社区主导的方法制定和评估干预措施， 造成这些差距和健康结果的两个主要结构性因素： 资源和粮食不安全以及经济不稳定。该项目将通过一个 洛杉矶市住房管理局、加州洛杉矶大学 洛杉矶和查尔斯德鲁大学以及50名成员的WRC和瓦茨居民。我们 将采用干预映射过程来完善干预， 社区花园将提供机会，增加获得健康食品，绿色空间 和体育活动，以及企业利用食品的创业机会， 花园最终，我们预计干预措施将降低可预防的慢性病的发病率， 并为劳动力发展提供机会。这种干预有可能 积极影响整个瓦茨社区约40，000名居民。