Inequities in African American Environmental Contexts for Obesity Prevention

描述（由申请人提供）：作为对PA-08-149的回应，本R13申请要求支持一个科学研讨会，该研讨会的重点是非洲裔美国人肥胖的环境决定因素中的社会不平等，可以通过基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）来解决。利益不平等与有充分记录的不健康食品和饮料的过度供应和推广以及非裔美国人社区相对缺乏安全和负担得起的体育活动选择有关。这一重点直接解决了NIH消除肥胖和心血管疾病的种族/民族差异的战略目标。研讨会将在非裔美国人合作肥胖研究网络（AACORN）的主持下召开。AACORN将全国的学者、研究人员和社区研究伙伴联系起来，努力提高研究的质量、数量和有效的翻译，以解决非裔美国人社区的体重问题。所要求的支助将支付有100名应邀参加的为期两天半的国家讲习班的部分费用。框架和内容将通过社会正义的镜头来处理非洲裔美国人社区肥胖预防问题。目标是：1)对影响非裔美国人的环境不平等如何通过政策、社区行动和社会变革，在与肥胖直接相关的问题以外的问题上成功地得到解决，有一个广泛的概述；2)确定最近或目前在解决非洲裔美国人食物和活动环境不平等方面取得的成功或有希望的工作进展；3)强调当前的研究记录和理解社区对食品和饮料营销实践中不公平现象的看法，以及解决这些问题的策略；4)起草改善非裔美国人饮食和体育活动环境的模范愿景和研究/行动计划；5)启动与国家和地方非裔美国人社区利益相关者实施该行动计划的程序。本次研讨会将邀请来自公共卫生、营养和食品研究、运动科学、公共政策、社区发展、市场营销、经济学和其他领域的学术学者和在职学者以及社区合作伙伴和决策者参加。在2004年、2006年和2008年举行的AACORN前三次全国邀请研讨会的成功和经验教训的基础上，该网络将在2010年采用一种新的研讨会形式：对话会议模式，以便优先考虑并创造讨论和知识交流的空间。研讨会成果将通过互联网、学术期刊和其他渠道传播。在非裔美国人社区中，健康与不健康食品和饮料的可得性和推广以及获得安全和负担得起的体育活动选择方面的不平等都有充分的记录。这些不平等限制了消除与肥胖有关的健康差异的能力。一个汇集了不同学者、社区合作伙伴和政策制定者的科学研讨会可以产生解决这些不平等问题的研究和行动战略。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In response to PA-08-149, this R13 application requests support for a scientific workshop focusing on social inequities in environmental determinants of obesity in African Americans that can be addressed through community-based participatory research (CBPR). The inequities of interest relate to the well-documented excess availability and promotion of unhealthful vs. more healthful foods and beverages and relative lack of access to safe and affordable options for physical activity in African American communities. This focus directly addresses NIH strategic goals for elimination of racial/ethnic disparities in obesity and cardiovascular diseases. The workshop will be convened under the auspices of the African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network (AACORN). AACORN links scholars, researchers and community-based research partners nationally in efforts to increase the quality, quantity, and effective translation of research to address weight issues in African American communities. The requested support would cover partial costs of a 2 1/2 day national workshop with 100 invited participants. Framing and content will approach the issue of obesity prevention in African American communities through a social justice lens. Objectives are to: 1) obtain a broad overview of how environmental inequities affecting African Americans have been successfully addressed through policy, community action, and social change, on issues other than those directly related to obesity; 2) identify recent or current successes or promising work-in-progress in addressing inequities in the food and activity environments of African Americans; 3) highlight current research documenting and understanding community perceptions of inequities in food and beverage marketing practices and strategies for addressing them; 4) draft a model vision and research/action plan for improving food and physical activity environments of African Americans; and 5) initiate a process for implementing this action plan with national and local African American community stakeholders. This workshop will engage academic scholars and scholars- in-training from public health, nutrition and food studies, exercise science, public policy, community development, marketing, economics, and other fields as well as community partners and policy makers. Building on successes and lessons learned from the three previous AACORN national invited workshops, held in 2004, 2006, and 2008, the Network will utilize a new workshop format in 2010: a dialogical conference model will be implemented in order to prioritize and create spaces for discourse and intellectual exchange. Workshop outcomes will be disseminated through the internet, academic journals, and other channels. Inequities in the availability and promotion of healthful vs. unhealthful foods and beverages and in access to safe and affordable options for physical activity in African American communities are well-documented. These inequities limit the ability to eliminate health disparities related to obesity. A scientific workshop that brings together diverse scholars, community partners, and policy makers can generate research and action strategies to address these inequities.