Nuestro Futoro Saludable: The JP Partnership for Healthy Caribbean Latino Youth

Nuestro Futoro Saludable：JP 健康加勒比拉丁裔青年伙伴关系

• 批准号: 7936964
• 负责人: Doug Brugge
• 金额: $ 46.54万
• 依托单位: TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-21 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7936964
• 关键词: Accountability; Address; Advocacy; Arts; Boston; Caribbean region; Characteristics; Child; Chronic Disease; Collaborations; Color; Commit; Communication; Communities; Country; Data; Decision Making; Development; Discipline; Disease; Dominican; Engineering; Environment; Evaluation; Faculty; Future; Grant; Hand; Health; Health Services; Hispanics; Human; Human Resources; Instruction; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Intervention Trial; Jamaica; Knowledge; Language; Latina; Latino; Life; Massachusetts; Medicine; Minority Groups; Nature; Neighborhoods; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Policies; Policy Maker; Principal Investigator; Process; Program Development; Protocols documentation; Provider; Public Health; Puerto Rican; Recommendation; Recording of previous events; Request for Proposals; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Role; Schools; Science; Services; Social Conditions; Social Work; Solid; Specific qualifier value; Strategic Planning; Structure; Students; Target Populations; Testing; Training Support; Trust; Universities; Woman; Work; Youth; age group; base; college; community based participatory research; community planning; design; empowered; experience; group intervention; health disparity; medical schools; meetings; member; nutrition; patient oriented; programs; response; therapy development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Through a community-based participatory research partnership, we will plan for, develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate an intervention to address health disparities in the Caribbean Latino population in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Specific Aims of this project are: (1) To establish a community advisory board to guide the development, implementation and dissemination of an intervention that is culturally appropriate and community specific. (2) Assure that community needs, advisory board recommendations, and steering committee decisions and actions are aligned. (3) We will a) determine the specific disease/chronic condition to serve as the basis for intervention and b) identify appropriate aspects of the built environment to be targeted by the intervention; and (4) We will a) design and pilot test a community-level disease-specific intervention to address deficiencies and maximize any existing advantages in the built environment, and/or to mitigate the direct and/or indirect effects of the built environment on health, b) conduct both a process and outcome evaluation of the intervention, and c) disseminate findings and develop a full intervention trial. Latinos are and will remain the country's largest minority group well into the future. In the northeast Caribbean Latinos (Puerto Ricans and Dominicans) represent the largest segment of the Latino population. Because of the youthfulness of the demographic, Latino children/youth are a priority age group. By addressing the causes of health disparities among Latino children and youth early and life, it is possible to provide children with living environments and social conditions conducive to good health, which can create pathways to health as opposed to disparities. This project is significant because, (1) it is a within-group intervention research project targeting a not well-understood sub-population of the Latino demographic; (2) the project is unique because it brings together a diverse group of community stakeholders; (3) key personnel are primarily people of color, with a majority of bilingual Latina women of varying backgrounds; and (4) the project introduces two new investigators of color. RELEVANCE (See instructions): Characteristics of the built environment can create/sustain health disparities, hence tackling them requires interventions to address macro-level factors that influence health. By addressing the causes of health disparities among Latino children/youth early and life, it is possible to create living environments and social conditions conducive to good health, which can create pathways to health as opposed to disparities.

描述(申请人提供)：通过基于社区的参与性研究伙伴关系，我们将计划、开发、实施、评估和传播一项干预措施，以解决马萨诸塞州波士顿牙买加平原地区加勒比拉丁裔人口的健康差距问题。该项目的具体目标是：(1)建立一个社区咨询委员会，指导制定、实施和传播符合文化和社区特点的干预措施。(2)确保社区需求、咨询委员会的建议以及指导委员会的决定和行动保持一致。(3)我们将a)确定作为干预基础的特定疾病/慢性状况，b)确定干预目标的建筑环境的适当方面；以及(4)我们将a)设计并试行社区层面的疾病针对性干预措施，以解决建成环境中的缺陷和最大限度地发挥现有优势，和/或减轻建成环境对健康的直接和/或间接影响，b)进行干预的过程和结果评估，以及c)传播结果并制定全面干预试验。拉美裔现在是，在未来很长一段时间内仍将是这个国家最大的少数群体。在加勒比海东北部，拉丁裔(波多黎各人和多米尼加人)是拉丁裔人口的最大部分。由于人口结构的年轻化，拉美裔儿童/青年是优先考虑的年龄段。通过解决导致拉丁裔儿童和青年健康差距的原因，我们有可能为儿童提供有益于健康的生活环境和社会条件，从而创造健康的途径，而不是差别。这个项目之所以重要，是因为：(1)这是一个群体内干预研究项目，目标是不被很好理解的拉丁裔人口亚群；(2)该项目是独特的，因为它汇集了社区利益攸关方的不同群体；(3)关键人员主要是有色人种，其中大多数是背景各异的双语拉丁裔妇女；(4)该项目引入了两名新的有色人种调查人员。 相关性(见说明)：建筑环境的特点可能造成/维持健康差距，因此，解决这些差距需要干预措施，以解决影响健康的宏观因素。通过解决拉丁裔儿童/青年早期和终身健康差距的原因，有可能创造有利于健康的生活环境和社会条件，从而创造健康的途径，而不是差异。