Community Engagement and Outreach Core

波多黎各在现有保健服务和保健成果方面存在着巨大的差距。许多 所报告的差距中有30%反映了岛上保健服务的可获得性和质量较低， 美国大陆的州。对健康和健康差异的研究所揭示的明显差异反映了 波多黎各在卫生保健研究、卫生政策讨论和全岛数据中相对不为人知 这些系统为美国国家数据系统提供信息。与社区合作的研究项目， 实现共同领导可以改善关键的健康行为，增加知识，改善实践，影响 社会规范，降低疾病发生率，减少不良健康结果和死亡率。社区 西班牙裔转化和临床研究联盟的外展和参与核心（CoEC） （联盟）旨在增加所需的大规模社会变革所必需的多部门协调 改善影响波多黎各西班牙裔社区的社区健康。COEC的长期目标是 促进和支持有意义的社区学术合作伙伴关系（CAP），以改善PR中的人口健康。 我们的主要目标是建立核心建议，以加强和维持社区参与 通过一个新的社区健康与研究理事会，帮助确定健康状况的研究重点 在西班牙裔人群中流行，并协助决策制定研究计划， 社区健康。社区卫生与研究理事会将促进社区和学术界之间的信任 增加社区对联盟研究的参与，整合不同的研究人员， 社区环境，以确定需要注意的关键健康状况，并支持这些关系， 指导、教育和传播。CoEC将促进和加强CAP，并雇用社区 公民在决定联盟的合作方面有重要发言权的发展方法 议程和资源分配，同时促进共同学习和增强能力， 不平等核心将建立在社区和学术优势和资源，以加强关系 与现有的合作伙伴合作，并扩大到包括新的合作伙伴。我们的目的和目标一定会实现 通过以下目标：1）加强和保持社区参与确定研究优先事项， 西班牙裔人口中普遍存在的健康状况; 2）发展联盟调查人员，核心工作人员， 和社区合作伙伴，通过研究，循证，社区 参与和指导;以及3）改善研究设计和发现的传播，以刺激采用 社区参与的最佳实践。欧洲委员会希望确保社区参与联盟 确定卫生优先事项的决策，以促进社区研究，并增加 通过培训，咨询和指导其成员;并传播研究成果和激励 采用社区参与的最佳做法。

Puerto Rico is experiencing profound health disparities in available health services and health outcomes. Many of the reported disparities reflect lower availability and quality of health care in the island as compared to many states in the US mainland. The stark disparities that emerge from studies of health and health disparities reflect the relative invisibility of Puerto Rico in health care research, health policy discussion, and island -wide data systems that inform US national data systems. Research programs that collaborate with the community to achieve shared leadership can improve critical health behaviors, increase knowledge, improve practices, affect social norms, lower disease incidence, and reduce poor health outcomes and mortality. The Community Outreach and Engagement Core (CoEC) of the Hispanic Alliance for Translational and Clinical Research (Alliance) aims to increase the multi-sectorial coordination necessary for the large-scale social change needed to improve community health that affect Hispanic communities in Puerto Rico. The long-term goal of CoEC is to catalyze and support meaningful Community Academic Partnerships (CAPs) to improve population health in PR. Our main objectives are to establish the Core proposes to enhance and maintain community participation through a new Community Health & Research Council, to help identify research priorities for health conditions prevalent in Hispanic populations and assist in decisions-making for developing research initiatives addressing community health. Community Health & Research Council will foster trust between communities and academia to increase the participation of the community in Alliance research; and integrating diverse researchers and community settings to identify key health conditions needing attention, and supporting those relationships with mentoring, education, and dissemination. The CoEC will promote and enhance CAPs and employ a community development approach in which citizens have a significant voice in determining the Alliance’s collaborative agenda and resource allocation, while promoting co-learning and empowerment to attend to health and social inequities. The core will build on community and academic strengths and resources to reinforce the relationship with existing partners and expand to include new collaborators. Our goal and objective will be accomplished through the following aims: 1) Enhance and maintain community participation in identifying research priorities for health conditions prevalent in Hispanic populations; 2) Develop the capacity of Alliance investigators, core staff, and community partners to address targeted health conditions through research, evidence-based, community engagement, and mentoring; and 3) Improve dissemination of research designs and finding to stimulate adoption of best practices for community engagement. The CoEC expects to ensure community participation in Alliance decision-making to identify health priorities; to foster community research; and increase knowledge and skills of its members through training, consulting and mentoring; and to disseminate research findings and stimulate adoption of best practices for community engagement.